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	Flag desecration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Flag desecration is a blanket term applied to various ways of intentionally defacing or dishonoring a flag, most often a national flag (though other flags are defaced as well).
		Desecration of the regional flag and the national flag of the PRC is illegal according to local laws, as required by the Basic Law - Hong Kong's constitution.
		In a line regiment the colours are two flags and and desecration of such a symbol would be a considered a great insult to the regiment by members of a regiment.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flag_desecration (1305 words)

	Host desecration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Regardless of the variation, in the Middle Ages the Jews were frequently accused of desecrating the host, an accusation equal in gravity to that of desecrating relics and images of Jesus and the saints.
		Host desecration forms part of allegations of devil worship, particularly the fl mass, both in medieval times and later in allegations of satanic ritual abuse.
		The accusation of the desecration of the host arose after Pope Innocent III had recognized (1215) the doctrine of transubstantiation, which resulted in the public and general worship of the consecrated host.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Host_desecration (707 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Desecration
		Desecration is the loss of that peculiar quality of sacredness, which inheres in places and things in virtue of the constitutive blessing of the Church.
		When material objects are destined for purposes of Divine worship they are set aside with a view to this end by the solemn form of consecration or by the simpler formula of a blessing, so that they assume a sacred and inviolable character which renders unlawful their employment for profane uses.
		The word desecration is commonly used in regard to churches, altars, chalices, etc.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04748c.htm (522 words)

	Texas v. Johnson (1989)
		Johnson was convicted of desecration of a venerated object in violation of a Texas statute, and a State Court of Appeals affirmed.
		It seems obvious that a prohibition against the desecration of a gravesite is content neutral even if it denies some protesters the right to make a symbolic statement by extinguishing the flame in Arlington Cemetery where John F. Kennedy is buried while permitting others to salute the flame by bowing their heads.
		Few would doubt that a protester who extinguishes the flame has desecrated the gravesite, regardless of whether he prefaces that act with a speech explaining that his purpose is to express deep admiration or unmitigated scorn for the late President.
	www.bc.edu /bc_org/avp/cas/comm/free_speech/texas.html (12130 words)

	Zipple.com - The Jewish Supersite - Desecration of holy sites: Most fateful acts? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		NEW YORK—The desecration of holy sites, rather than atrocities committed against people, may turn out to be the most resounding disaster of the past weeks of violence in the Middle East.
		For the Palestinians, of course, the fatal shooting of between five and seven demonstrators on the Temple Mount by the Israeli police on Sept. 29 was itself an act of desecration.
		Israelis were reminded of the willful desecration that the Jordanians perpetrated in the Jewish synagogues and cemeteries of eastern Jerusalem and the Old City after the Israeli War of Independence in 1948.
	www.zipple.com /newsandpolitics/israelnews/20001017_holy_sites.shtml (994 words)

	Temple desecration in pre-modern India
		Undoubtedly some temples were desecrated b ut the facts in the matter were never recorded, or the facts were recorded but the records themselves no longer survive.
		First, acts of temple desecration were nearly invariably carried out by military officers or ruling authorities; that is, such acts that we know about were undertaken by the state.
		The form of desecration that showed the greatest continuity with pre-Turkish practice was the seizure of the image of a defeated king's state-deity and its abduction to the victor's capital as a trophy of war.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1725/17250620.htm (4987 words)

	EI > DVD > Desecration (1999)
		"Desecration" is an independent horror film written and directed by New York filmmaker Dante Tomaselli.
		I was reminded of Mario Bava's "Blood and Black Lace" as I watched "Desecration." Many of the film's more striking moments are bathed in vivid, rich reds, blues and greens.
		There is a scene in which the teenaged Bobby is caged and tormented by the spirit of his dead mother.
	www.einsiders.com /reviews/dvd/desecration.php (698 words)

	The DVD Review Section - Desecration
		Indeed, as Desecration's narrative moves on it quickly drops logic in favour of surreal visuals, moments of pure cinema - which would not go amiss in a silent film from the German expressionist era - and several colourful, not to mention lyrical, moments which are almost guaranteed to leave you feeling unnerved.
		In case you have not guessed Desecration is really an Italian horror film made in America and, as such, the movie basically amounts to a succession of powerful images hung together by a confusing plot.
		Desecration, as the title suggests, is concerned with religion - although this never degenerates into an attack on organised faith.
	www.lundwood.u-net.com /fl/dvddesecration.html (869 words)

	Governor Pataki Signs Cemetery Desecration Bill
		Governor George E. Pataki today signed landmark legislation that criminalizes desecration of a cemetery plot and allows for the imposition of monetary fines.
		The bill creates a new crime of second-degree cemetery desecration, a class A misdemeanor, when a person intentionally damages any real property maintained as a cemetery plot, burial place or other place of interment of human remains.
		In addition, the crime of illegally opening a grave is increased from a misdemeanor offense to a Class E felony, which is punishable by up to 1 1/3 to 4 years in prison, in addition to $5,000 in fines and five years probation.
	www.state.ny.us /governor/press/july24_97.html (281 words)

	Desecration - Movie Review - HorrorExpress.com
		Seeing such an unlikely person in a heroic role really warmed me. I spent a good deal of my childhood in New Jersey (where DESECRATION is set) and several neighborhoods had an Italian population with characters like this.
		What makes DESECRATION feel different from many films I've seen recently is that it feels so authentic.
		DESECRATION is not a classic, but it is an extremely intriguing start to what one hopes will be a fascinating career.
	www.horrorexpress.com /filmreview.php?id=215 (1095 words)

	City of Brass: Desecration - Principled pragmatism at the maghrib of one age, the fajr of another (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		She calls it a desecration, and asks herself how she'd feel if it were her church.
		The desecration of a mosque occurs when one side uses it as a military installation, not a place of worship.
		I suppose the argument of whether the Americans are desecrating the pictured mosque or not is moot.
	cityofbrass.blogspot.com /2004/11/desecration.html (1528 words)

	Monsters At Play: Desecration Review
		Desecration is a hidden gem of horror brought forth from the creative mind of Dante Tomaselli.
		Poor Bobby, first his mother passes on while he watches helplessly as a baby as he's held in the arms of his grandmother.
		Desecration spends much of its remaining running time switching between nightmare and reality as the viewer learns that Bobby's mom may have some plans from beyond the grave to claw her way out of hell, and Bobby is the key.
	monstersatplay.com /desecration.shtml (515 words)

	People For the American Way - Letter Urging Lawmakers to Oppose "Flag Desecration" Amendment
		In contrast, banning flag desecration would put America in the unwelcome league of repressive regimes such as The People’s Republic of China, the former Soviet Union, Cuba, and Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, all of which do (or did) imprison their citizens for desecrating their national flags.
		Proponents of the flag desecration amendment have tried to inflate the number of unpunished incidents of flag desecration as well as obscure the amendment’s impact on free expression in those rare cases where it does occur.
		Of the 122 incidents of flag desecration identified by the Citizens Flag Alliance (CFA) on their website, at least two-thirds (76) involved crimes that are already covered by local criminal statutes—including theft, vandalism, destruction of property, trespassing, disorderly conduct or public disturbance.
	www.pfaw.org /pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=10439 (1327 words)

	A Flag Desecration Amendment (Testimony)
		Those who would desecrate the flag are thus guilty, at bottom, of desecrating our principles, which is why we find their acts so offensive.
		In fact, there is all the difference in the world between defending the right to desecrate the flag and defending flag desecration itself.
		Let me plumb those issues a bit more deeply by noting, first, that flag desecration of a kind that this amendment would authorize Congress to prohibit is political expression and, second, that political expression is precisely what the Framers wanted most to protect when they drafted the First Amendment.
	www.cato.org /testimony/ct-rp043097.html (923 words)

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		An amendment to the Constitution authorizing Congress to Enact a Statute to Prohibit Physical Desecration of the Flag of the United States: Hearing on H.J. Res 54 before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the House Judiciary Committee.
		Since the Supreme Court rules that the freedom to physically desecrate the flag is more important than the unity which underlies all freedoms, the flag has been decaying as an embodiment of this unity.
		Draping a flag over the coffin of a fallen soldier, placing a flag near a grave, or hanging a flag on one's house on Memorial Day are all ways we express our honor and appreciation for those who have fought and died to secure the freedoms we have as Americans.
	www.customcpu.com /ait/ksouther/flag/p15.htm (1785 words)

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		1897\Adoption of State Flag Desecration Statutes -- By the late 1800's an organized flag protection movement was born in reaction to perceived commercial and political misuse of the flag.
		Although not a flag burning case, this represented the first time the Court had clearly stated that protest involving the physical use of the flag should be seen as a form of protected expression under the First Amendment.
		As a result, the 1989 Act sought to prohibit flag desecration under all circumstances by deleting the statutory requirement that the conduct cast contempt upon the flag and narrowing the definition of the term "flag" so that its meaning was not based on the observation of third parties.
	www.house.gov /judiciary_democrats/dchrono.htm (1001 words)

	DESECRATION? \| ajc.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		What constitutes "physical desecration" and "the flag" will be decided by a future Congress, if the Senate and at least 38 state legislatures add their approval.
		However, in two 5-4 decisions, the Supreme Court struck down such laws, ruling that flag burning and similar acts are symbolic acts of expression and thus free speech protected by the U.S. Constitution.
		A poll sponsored by the Freedom Forum indicates 63 percent of the people sampled said the Constitution "should not be amended to prohibit burning or desecrating the American flag." The poll of 1,003 adults nationwide was conducted May 13-23.
	www.ajc.com /news/content/news/stories/0605/21natflag.html (1163 words)

	DVD Review - Desecration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		With its disturbing images and wavering storyline, "Desecration" calls to mind the essence of EuroHorror, with a dose of American ingenuity.
		"Desecration" was shot on a budget of $150,000, but, for the most part, it is able to overcome it’s low budget.
		The only extra on the DVD is a 3-minute excerpt from Tomaselli’s original short film of "Desecration." The original short ran about 23-minutes and I can’t help but wonder why Image didn’t go ahead and include the whole thing.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/desecration.shtml (1207 words)

	GOP Bloggers: Selective Desecration Outrage
		Even mosque desecration doesn't seem to generate worldwide protests, so you know that church desecration, buddhist artifact desecration and ancient biblical tomb desecration won't get out the mobs either.
		And don't even ask about pregnant mom with her 4 little girls desecration; they were just Jews.
		This is truly a messed up culture in many ways, one where the Americans are constantly at fault for every ill in the world and nothing is their fault or responsibility.
	www.gopbloggers.org /mt/archives/001200.html (1054 words)

	CNN.com - Newsweek backs off Quran desecration story - May 15, 2005
		"Desecrating the Quran is a death-penalty offense" in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan, said Peter Bergen, a CNN terrorism analyst.
		He said investigators had so far been unable to confirm a "toilet incident, except for one case, a log entry, which they still have to confirm, where a detainee was reported by a guard to be ripping pages out of a Quran and putting [them] in the toilet to stop it up as a protest.
		He said investigators have found nothing to support allegations that U.S. troops had desecrated copies of the Quran, but turned up one case he said has now led to stricter procedures at the prison camp.
	www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/asiapcf/05/15/newsweek.quran/index.html (1061 words)

	Portland Maine - The Desecration Capitol of the World
		The “off-leash dog park” that is known as the Western Cemetery and was treated with the dignity and respect due a cemetery in a more civilized and respectful time has over the years been subjected to severe neglect and vandalism.
		Grave desecration is wrong and it is a pity that the city can find so many depraved people willing to stoop so low as to put their pets, their dogs in a situation where they can’t help taking part in this disgusting activity.
		To subject a cemetery to grave desecration is heinous enough but to also use it as a place where our nation’s flag will annually be desecrated is just outragous.
	www.interment.net /column/commentary/20000624/western.htm (1875 words)

	Desecration
		Dante Tomaselli is one of these filmmakers, and Desecration is his 'stab' attempt at horror.
		Granted, this is a lower budgeted effort, so that some of the production values and acting are not that great, but he does his best to get the atmosphere right.
		As a first film, Desecration may be something that will wow critics, but with a little practice, Tomaselli could probably become a decent director.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/desecration.html (513 words)

	THE COLD SPOT \ Movies \ Desecration
		Like Jacob's Ladder, Desecration skips around a little too much and is probably too esoteric in some of its content for the audience's good.
		For example, according to the back of the DVD case, the main character in Desecration was raised in a repressive Catholic school.
		Instead, I'll watch it for the deadened winter setting, for the acting, which is refreshingly good for a low budget film, and for the atmosphere: cloying and unsettling.
	www.theflagship.net /coldspot/d/desecration.html (537 words)

	unORiGiNAL.com :: Writings :: Flag Desecration Amendment
		However, flag desecration is not a personal insult or invitation for retaliation or violence; consequently, it cannot be ruled illegal because of a perceived imminence of lawlessness (United States, "Texas v.
		Such an act is intentional desecration of an American flag, not merely a representation of a flag or parts thereof.
		Any increase in flag desecration or prosecution for flag desecration means increased traffic of already taxed resources in our criminal justice system, which should be doing its best to protect society from those who threaten our physical well-being.
	www.unoriginal.com /writings/flag.html (2802 words)

	Babri Mosque: Temple Desecration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		First, acts of temple desecration were nearly invariably carried out by military officers or ruling authorities; that is, such acts that we
		The form of desecration that showed the greatest continuity with pre-Turkish practice was the seizure of the image of a defeated
		Whatever form they took, acts of temple desecration were never directed at the people, but at the enemy king and the image that
	www.vepachedu.org /Babrimosque-1.html (5169 words)

	Desecration DVD
		She should be credited not only for her acting performance, but for also having to endure a very physical role and heavy special effects makeup.
		Tomaselli filmed DESECRATION on the grounds of a Catholic School that looks like a gothic European mansion.
		All things considered, DESECRATION is a strong debut from a first-time filmmaker, Dante Tomaselli.
	www.dvdcult.com /rev_Desecration.htm (1361 words)

	American Civil Liberties Union : Free Speech : Flag Desecration
		The proposal, which requires two-thirds of those voting and present to pass, was adopted by an eight-vote margin on a vote of 286 to 130.
		WASHINGTON - The Flag Desecration Amendment is introduced nearly every session of Congress, but the vote this session may be the closest yet.
		Noting that free expression and the right to dissent are among the core principles the flag should represent, the American Civil Liberties Union today called upon the House of Representatives to reject the amendment.
	www.aclu.org /FreeSpeech/FreeSpeechList.cfm?c=50 (864 words)

	Quran Desecration: Far Worse than Abu Ghraib (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The reports in the media that Americans at Guantanamo facility allegedly desecrated the Quran to torture prisoners has unleashed an intense wave of anti-Americanism in the Muslim World, which has already caused 16 deaths.
		To many Muslims the Quran desecration episode, regardless of Newsweek's retraction which lacks much credibility in the Muslim World, is another deeply aggravating example of how the US has made Islam and Muslim religiosity a target in its so called war on terror.
		To many Muslims the allegations of Quran desecration is consistent with their image of the US as an anti-Islam force.
	www.brook.edu /views/op-ed/fellows/khan20050603.htm (864 words)

	ASNE - Testimony to the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution
		Known as the "Flag Desecration Act," the bill under consideration in Congress would be the first in Americaâs history to restrict our Bill of Rights, freedomâs very cornerstone.
		The Flag Desecration Act, which would restrict freedom and limit the measure of Americaâs unique promise, is nothing more than a means to limiting Americaâs hallmark â” liberty for every person.
		The impulse to restrict those individual rights is as ancient as the very history of mankind.
	www.asne.org /ideas/flagtinertestimony.htm (1184 words)

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