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Topic: Defacement (flag)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Proper Flag Disposal
		The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.
		The fallacy about burning a ground-touched flag arises from the mistaken beliefs that a flag that has been allowed to touch the ground is no longer "suitable for display" and must therefore be destroyed, and that the only proper form of disposal for a flag is to burn it.
		The flag need be destroyed only when it has become irreparably unsuitable for display due to circumstances such as fading, tattering, tearing, staining, partial burning, mutilation, or defacement.
	www.snopes.com /holidays/flagday/burnflag.asp (0 words)

	Flag Burning, National Symbols and Free Speech: Elsewhere
		Whoever removes, destroys, damages, renders unusable or unrecognizable, or commits insulting mischief upon a publicly displayed flag of the Federal Republic of Germany or one of its Lands or a national emblem installed by a public authority of the Federal Republic of Germany or one of its Lands shall be similarly punished.
		The Flag Code encompasses punishment for one who "burns, mutilates, defaces, defiles disfigures, destroys, tramples upon or otherwise brings into contempt (whether by words, either spoken or written, or by acts)" the flag in a public place or in public view.
		Whoever purposely insults the national flag, national emblem of the PRC in a public place with such methods as burning, destroying, scribbling, soiling, and trampling is to be to be sentenced to not more than three years of fixed-term imprisonment, criminal detention, control or deprived of political rights.
	www.caslon.com.au /flagfiresnote2.htm (0 words)

	flag of War Ensign and Other Naval Flags (Israel) flags
		The Commander of the Navy flag is the Navy Ensign as in FOTW with a device.
		The flag – its length 180 cm, its width 120 cm, its background dark sky-blue [as in the national flag and civil ensign] with a white triangle with two equal sides, whose top lies in the centre of the flag and its base coincides with the wide side at the hoist.
		One of the flags or standards of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is blue-purple with white triangle with the base in the hoist and within a blue magen star; in the fly a badge (but no the lion; seems a fox).
	www.flags-of-the-world.net /flags/il~war.html (1206 words)

	Citizens' Flag Alliance: Who We Are
		At the time, the colonists saw the need to punish the act in clear sovereignty terms: that defacing the flag would be taken as an act of rebellion, even when unaccompanied by danger of violence or general revolt.
		James Madison continued his defense of the integrity of the flag when he pronounced an act of flag defacement in the streets of an American city to be a violation of law.
		Madison pronounced a flag defacement in Philadelphia as actionable in court.
	www.cfa-inc.org /about/flagamend10.htm (1197 words)

	Vexillology - Alternative History - a Wikia wiki
		Defacement: Both flag have the same basic design and colours but one is defaced (means something is added, not a pejorative term) with the national Coat of arms or Emblem while the other is not.
		Coloured Field: The flag is put in canton (part of the flag closest to the top of the pole) and different colours and defacement on the rest of the flag indicate whom it represent.
		National flag: some countries have a de facto positional flag for their head of state in that he is the only one allowed to use the national flag as a car flag.
	althistory.wikia.com /wiki/Vexillology (2988 words)

	Flag Burning, National Symbols and Free Speech: Issues, Regulation, Studies
		In states such as the US and France the national flag may implicitly be the centre of the national religion, one that transcends class and creed.
		Sasha Weitman's 1973 Semiotica article 'National flags: a sociological overview' commented that the flag is so central to the idea of nationhood that it is almost difficult to conceptualize the existence of a nation without one.
		Exploring moral panic over flag desecration provides a unique opportunity to refine our understanding of adverse reactions to political dissent, especially toward protest considered so offensive that many people believe it ought to be treated as a crime.
	www.caslon.com.au /flagfiresnote.htm (0 words)

	Senate Rejects Flag Desecration Amendment
		They said that burning a U.S. flag in public -- while rare these days -- is a reprehensible insult to the nation's founders and a dishonor to the Americans who died fighting tyranny.
		The amendment's opponents agreed that flag burning is repugnant, but argued that U.S. troops died to preserve freedoms that include controversial political statements.
		Burning an American flag in anger, she said, is "conduct, not speech" because the flag is "the symbol of our democracy, our shared values, our commitment to justice, our remembrance to those who have sacrificed to defend these principles."
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/27/AR2006062701056_pf.html (983 words)

	The Protest Primer: FLAG DESECRATION \| AfterDowningStreet.org (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Union Flag of the United Kingdom and the tricolour of the Republic of Ireland are often defaced or burnt in Northern Ireland as a political provocation or as a protest.
		Flags are even used sometimes as carpeting, violating such guidelines as not allowing the flag to touch the ground, not displaying it in a horizontal position, and not displaying it an a manner which is likely to allow it to get soiled.
		Flags are burned in respectful retirement ceremonies by the American Legion, Boy Scouts, The Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Daughters of the American Revolution, and the Sons of the American Legion.
	www.afterdowningstreet.org /node/15681 (2873 words)

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		The trial court concluded that defacing the flag was considered an act of rebellion.
		At the time, the colonists saw the need to punish the act in clear sovereignty terms: that defacing the flag would be taken as an act of rebellion, even when unaccompanied by danger of violence or general revolt.
		James Madison continued his defense of the integrity of the flag when he pronounced an act of flag defacement in the streets of an American city to be a violation of law.
	www.customcpu.com /ait/ksouther/flag/p37.htm (1372 words)

	Nova Scotia (Canada)
		The flag is only referred to in passing when it says that the arms may be used "upon Seals, Shields, BANNERS or otherwise according to the Laws of Arms" which is indeed (at least as far as I am aware) in any case "implicit in (any) grant of arms"?.
		This is the date of the Order in Council which instituted the whole system of Union Flag defacements for 'Governors of Her Majesty's dominions in foreign parts, and Governors of all ranks and denominations administering the Governments of British colonies and dependencies,'.
		The N.S. flag is a reverse of the Saint Andrew's Cross of Scotland, with the royal badge of Scotland in the centre.
	flagspot.net /flags/ca-ns.html (0 words)

	Anguilla
		On 1 February 1980 Anguilla became a separate crown colony and later adopted the blue ensign with the former flag as a sort of badge.
		The new flag, which was first hoisted on 30 May, 1990, is a blue ensign with a Union Jack in the top left corner and a shield on the right side which shows three orange dolphins on a white background with a turquoise-blue base.
		On land this flag is the “unofficial” National flag, to be used for decorative and distiguishing purposes inside and outside Anguilla (the official state flag is the Union Jack).
	flagspot.net /flags/ai.html (0 words)

	Flag Burning - Educate yourself about United States laws and legal issues
		The Flag of the United States is often used in symbolic defacement, often in protest of the policies of the American government, both within the country and abroad.
		Defacing a flag is an act of protected speech under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, as established in Texas v.
		The Flag Desecration Amendment, often referred to as the flag burning amendment, is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution that would allow the United States Congress to statutorily proscribe the physical desecration of the flag of the United States.
	www.flag-burning.explaininglaw.com (2071 words)

	ArlingtonNow - Home
		The protester who was going to go to jail anyway doesn't care; he burns the flag just to spite the police and general public.
		However, flag protection laws are nothing more than hate crime laws to protect an inanimate object, albeit an important one.
		It is acceptable to burn a worn flag to dispose of it, but do the same thing while protesting and you go to jail.
	www.esquilax.com /flag/norred.shtml (990 words)

	Kedah (Malaysia)
		It is being manufactured by virtually all of Malaysia's flag makers, and the defacement appears as Kedah's official "coat of arms" on literature and the "Welcome to Kedah" signs on the north/south highway.
		This is the Kedah state flag defacement I would consider to be the second most popular among the batch.
		Based on a flag of 288 x 576 units, the defacement rests on the horizontal meridian, it is therefore set 20 units down from the upper edge and is set 48 units in from the hoist.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/my-kedah.html (0 words)

	Nathan Callahan / A Benediction on the Occasion of National Flag Burning Day
		Back when we first burned the American flag at this memorial, the old national holidays were losing their glow.
		Flag Burning Day was their vision — a kind of cleansing of the national palette, a rejuvenation of the spirit of liberty and justice, a rekindling of love for this jack nation.
		One by one, flags burned, the physics of the moment emancipating our light and energy: Carbon fuel uniting with oxygen to fashion carbon dioxide; fabric animating, crumpling and shifting like dozing elephants; ethics and icons colliding.
	www.nathancallahan.com /flag.html (913 words)

	Saint Helena and Dependencies
		The defaced Union Jack was hoisted on any vessel carrying the governor within the waters of the colony, and the defaced Blue Ensign was for vessels operated by the government of the colony.
		As originally drawn, when the badge was introduced in 1874, the flag was a White Ensign, but in later copies the canton was often left blank so that it appeared to be the English flag.
		In flag books colonial badges were usually drawn as separate items, not as part of the flag on which they would be placed.
	www.fotw.us /flags/sh.html (911 words)

	CampusProgress.org \| The Confederate Flag Desecration
		The Flag is not just a particular physical flag, but a symbolic design that is protected, in the words of the (currently unconstitutional) federal flag statute, as to any part thereof, made of any substance, of any size, in a form that is commonly displayed.
		The Confederate flag is historically the worst and clearest defacement of the U.S. Flag.
		Its bloody symbolic parody of the elements of the U.S. Flag was associated with the worst internal attack on the Union for which it stands.
	www.campusprogress.org /features/364/the-confederate-flag-desecration (723 words)

	Flags of Canada, Chronology
		The flag was prepared by the Patriots for the demonstrations at St-Scholastique and used later at the battles of St-Eustache and St-Benoit.
		The flag of the Yukon Territory was adopted.
		The flag of the Northwest Territories is adopted.
	fraser.cc /FlagsCan/Appendicies/Chronology.html (3940 words)

	Kenya (British Colony)
		The other two flags are: Governor of Kenya and the Merchant flag of Kenya - red ensign with lion in the fly in a white disk.
		This caused a problem in 1956 when the Board of Trade Registrar in Plymouth refused to register a ship belonging to Southern Lines Ltd of Kenya, on the grounds that the company's head office was in Mombasa, which was in the protectorate and not the colony.
		The flag of British East Africa is the national banner of the Empire, bearing upon the intersection of the crosses a red lion, rampant, or aggressively walking forward on his hind legs...encircled by a wreath.
	www.fotw.net /flags/ke-hist.html (0 words)

	Flags of The Club
		Ensign: The Blue Ensign of Her Majesty’s Fleet defaced with a field-gun or (golden), muzzle towards the hoist, surmounted by a crown.
		Racing Flag: The "distinguishing flag" for yachts owned by the Club when racing is a blue rectangular flag with a red zig-zag from hoist to fly.
		This flag shall not be used by a privately-owned yacht unless she is entered by, and is representing the Club.
	www.army.mod.uk /rayc/flags.htm (291 words)

	Washington Week . Student Voices \| PBS
		Specifically, the legislators, led by State Sen. John Andrews, R-Centennial, said that defacement of the flag, along with other reported incidents of harassment experienced by CU's Jewish community, are not being investigated with the same urgency as were incidents of harassment against Arab and Muslim students in the wake of Sept. 11.
		McGraw said in recent weeks investigators have had several suspects in the flag defacement.
		McGraw said that the same CU detective who successfully investigated a case of verbal death threats left last fall on the voice mail of CU's Muslim Student Association — a case that led to the arrest of Richard Dale Ewell — is currently assigned to the flag defacement investigation.
	www.pbs.org /weta/washingtonweek/voices/200204/0402defacement.html (426 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Senate narrowly turns back flag amendment
		They contend that burning a U.S. flag in public, even though it rarely happens these days, is a reprehensible insult to the nation's founders and a dishonor to those Americans who died fighting tyranny.
		The amendment's opponents agreed that flag burning is repugnant but argued that U.S. soldiers died to preserve freedoms that include controversial political statements.
		Flag burning "is obscene, painful and unpatriotic," Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, who lost an arm fighting in World War II, said in a floor speech Tuesday.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2003090346_flag28.html (1010 words)

	Flags of the World
		Flags of the World (FOTW) is the Internet's largest site devoted to vexillology (the study of flags).
		FOTW (Flags of the World) is a site originally established by Giuseppe Bottasini, and devoted to vexillology.
		Flags of the World is produced and maintained by an Editorial Staff of unpaid volunteers and the contents of these pages are offered freely to the Internet community.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags (0 words)

	Ausflag - Vexillological Terms (Site not responding. Last check: )
		That quarter of the flag at the upper hoist.
		The ratio of the width to the length of the flag, given as a ratio of integers in the form n:m (width:length).
		That half of the flag adjacent to the edge attached to a pole, rope, or other device used to suspend a flag horizontally or vertically.
	www.ausflag.com.au /info/terms.html (231 words)

	Flag-burning amendment heads to Senate floor - Boston.com
		The flag debate comes shortly after the Senate defeated a constitutional amendment to prohibit same-sex marriages.
		The Supreme Court ruled in 1989 that flag burning was protected under constitutional free-speech guarantees, invalidating laws in 48 states and outraging veterans' groups and others who say that an important national symbol should be protected from defacement.
		The amendment, which must win approval from at least 38 states within seven years, would not prohibit flag desecration but give Congress the power to say how the flag can be protected and what penalties should apply.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/washington/articles/2006/06/15/flag_burning_amendment_heads_to_senate_floor (460 words)

	Show Your Colors, America!
		The Citizens Flag Alliance, Inc. is a coalition of some 125 organizations representing every element of our diverse culture, some 20 million souls with one mission and one mission only -- to return to the people the right to protect their flag.
		The flag flew over their schools as a symbol of free public education and the value they placed on their children’s future well-being.
		The flag was given an honored place in their churches and synagogues as a symbol of the value they placed on the freedom to worship as they choose.
	srjarchives.tripod.com /1998-07/brady.htm (1508 words)

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		It is a symbol of America, a nation made special by its constitutional freedoms, even including the right to deface the flag.
		As precedent for this amendment, the committee majority cite a 1634 prosecution of flag defacement in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
		Flag burning is the ultimate form of political protest.
	www.csaf.org /politics/flagburn.htm (715 words)

	Rhubarb Preserve: How to Really Protect the Flag
		The physical desecration of the flag of the United States shall not be a felony.
		The crime of desecration shall consist only in the physical destruction or defacement of the flag of the United States, or the display of a damaged or defaced flag of the United States, without regard to the intent or purpose of the destruction, defacement, or display.
		And all flag desecration will be treated equally: the courts will not be asked to act the parts of mind-police, assaying whether George W. Bush means respect or disrespect when he defaces flags with his autograph in permanent fl marker, as he has done with some frequency.
	www.madforjam.com /rhubarb/archives/000666.html (0 words)

	Comments
		If we were to be seriously concerned with flag desecration, than I would love to start with restricting its use on clothing, knick-knacks, and the blatant disrespect shown to the flag by draping it and attatching it to cars.
		You may see flag defacement as a terrible wrong, but it was through acts of defiance and protest such as the defacement of the British flag, that our country rebelled and was formed.
		While I may not agree with flag burning, nor with KKK members to stand on a street corner near my house with signs, nor with Liberals bashing soldiers for "war crimes," it is a vital part of our country's history to have civil discourse.
	guardian.blogdrive.com /comments?id=246 (0 words)

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