What do you think about allowing Flag burning?

Question

I feel that it is unconstitutional.

litlkimer2000 I don't believe in flag burning. I think that it is immorrally wrong. I have a political science class and we had a discussion on this, the students were very undecided. Just wanted everyone's opion. Sorry if I've offended anyone.

Answer 1

Does it really matter? It's a way of expressing a strong feeling, purely symbolic, and should be allowed for the freedom of speech.

Answer 2

What is unconstitutional? Burning flags, banning burning of flags or the move to allow burning the flags?

And do you people want such a controlling govt? Hell! Davinci code was almost banned here though it was a movie made by christians in a christian country, and was watched by so many christians without trouble.

Anyways, I am in a country where you could fly any country's flag in front of your house, accept your own country's!!!
It took a long legal battle to cancel the ban, because the govt. thoughtthat if normal citizens fly the flag, they might end up disrespecting the flag( willingly or unwillingly. ) So only government buildings and establishments were given the honour to show their love for their country.

Do you think they will let us live if thy found us burning our flag???

Anyways, can you guess which country I am from? I can't give 10 points, (its not my question! ) but i will modify it later to tell the answer!

Answer 3

What does freedom mean? Freedom after all is meant to be what the flag represents, and is not in any way diminished by the destruction of a piece of cloth. Freedom of course is constrained for the good of society - we might want to kill someone, or rape someone, but our freedom to do so is curtailed by law because certain actions are found to be morally reprehensible by a majority of the people. This moral repugnance is made clear by the banning of certain actions through laws. that's the way any democratic society works. Freedom of speech and expression is an interesting adjunct to this though. Any state which claims to believe in freedom of speech must, by definition, support the freedom to speak against itself, to demonstrate against its actions and decision, in any way that is within the law. Allowing such speech and actions is also socially responsible, as it allows discontent to be voiced openly rather than to feel repressed and begin to fester. Any state that doesn't allow demonstrations against itself can no longer be said to be a democracy. And while the will of the people, as expressed in law, in inviolable, the state does not have the right to claim a blanket of innocence that would make protest unnecessary - if it had that right, there'd be no need for governmental checks and balances, we could always trust all of our leaders to be honourable and politics would be a perfect battle of minds and hearts.

Bottom line - it needs to be legal to burn the flag so that the freedom the flag represents can be seen to be a living thing. Otherwise what will follow next? Will it become unconstitutional to say bad things about the president? About any politician?

No-one's going to force anyone else to burn a flag. but in any free land, they should have the right to do so if they want to.

Answer 4

You may feel it is unconstitutional but it currently is not. How many people in America actually burn the flag anyway, you see that more in other countries.

Answer 5

Having fought for that flag, I dislike the idea,highly dislike.
however,it's currently legal.
If you want to burn the flag, ,please,follow the veteran approved directions.
1. soak the flag in high octane gasoline
2. tie the flag tightly around your own neck
3. flick your bick

this will guarantee you a place in the Flag Burners Hall of Fame

Answer 6

You're right.

The Constitution protects freedom of speech, not "freedom of expression".

If it permitted freedom of expression, I could urinate on your front lawn in protest, throw rotten eggs at you, scream obscenities in public school and in courtrooms, I could defecate on war memorials, and kick people's mailboxes over. All in the name of "freedom of expression".

Desecrating the symbol of a nation is not free speech, it's what people do when they wish to silence free speech.

Destroying monuments, flags, or government buildings is not freedom of speech, nor is vandalizing the wall of a public library, or setting fire to churches.

Only extremist zealots do such things, because they lack LOGICAL ARGUMENT to back up what they have to say. They have nothing to say at all, so they burn things to show how much hate they carry inside.

See: Book burnings, burning effigies, burning crosses, burning churches, etc.

Answer 7

The ability to burn one's own flag without threats or acts of violence against oneself is a sign of living in a free country.

Only brutal, repressive, and illegitimate regimes feel the need to attack and justify violence against its critics.

Making flag burning illegal shows that talk about US "freedom" and "democracy" is nothing but lip service.

Answer 8

I dont think its freedom of "speech", looks like arson or vandalism to me. I mean you dont go burning someones door mat and get away with it cos u dont like them, or take someones sweater and burn because you dont like the fashion statement. I see this done on news in other countries out of hatred, so isnt it possible its a hate crime?

Answer 9

It is not unconstitutional. At least not according to supreme court. Under freedom to express yourself Iirc.

Let it burn. We will get a new one.

Answer 10

when our troops that die in combat come home it is with the flag draped on the coffin.anyone who thinks burning that flag is political is wrong it is pure hate and should be dealt with as such