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	Flag Burning: Interesting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Flag burning should be defended vigorously not in spite of the fact that such an act is offensive and provocative, but because it is offensive and provocative.
		Burning the flag today does not mean that our country was not once a wonderful place to live, or that we don't appreciate the progress it has made and all that the founding fathers did for us.
		In short, those who burn the flag to insult veterans, democracy, justice, freedom, and equality are psychotic assholes, but those who burn the flag to show that the country is not standing for one or all of those ideals is one of the truest americans who is taking part in his government.
	www.efn.org /~bsharvy/flaggers/interesting.html (6418 words)

	Flag Burning Essay
		Flag burning has been a debate in society since Congress has become involved in attempting to protect the flag.
		Not that many flags are burned in a year and there seem to be plenty of other more pressing issues that Congress should spend time writing and passing laws for.
		It states that the flag should not be used for advertising purposes, clothing, napkins, etc. Although this is already recognized today, Congress does not have the authority to enforce it without a law in place.
	www.msu.edu /~guzydara/flag.htm (986 words)

	Jefferson - Enlightenment: United States v. Eichman - Burning the American Flag
		Such behavior has outraged many Americans who feel that the flag is a symbol of the United States that should be protected from harm, and that burning flags should not be protected under the First Amendment.
		The Flag Protection Act of 1989 made a criminal of any citizen who "knowingly mutilates, defaces, physically defiles, burns, maintains on the floor or ground, or tramples upon" a United States flag, except in relation to the disposal of a "worn or soiled" flag.
		The burning of the American flag continues to be debated.
	www.pbs.org /jefferson/enlight/flag.htm (1033 words)

	Flag burning [Archive] - VeggieBoards
		Making flag buring against the law would be the ultimate irony and more of a slap in the face to people who have died to protect our freedoms than burning a flag is. This is our constitution, love it or leave it.
		Burning a flag is also a symbolic action and probably not the most productive way to change society, but symbols send a message.
		In it, the Court held that flag burning was "speech" and that the flag desecration statute in Texas was aimed at the communicative impact of Johnson's message.
	veggieboards.com /boards/archive/index.php/.../t-2981.html (2359 words)

	Flag Burning Amendment -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This is intended to give (The legislature of the United States government) Congress the right to make laws in which burning the United States flag in a public protest could be a criminal action.
		Many have argued that burning the flag is a very offensive gesture deserving special treatment.
		According to the (Click link for more info and facts about Citizens Flag Alliance) Citizens Flag Alliance, which advocates in favor of the amendment, 49 of the 50 states have passed resolutions expressing support for the proposed amendment ((A state in New England) Vermont is the exception), but these are not legally binding.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fl/flag_burning_amendment.htm (319 words)

	FLAG BURNING CEREMONY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Reader When the Flag is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, it should not be cast aside or used in any way that might be viewed as disrespectful to the national colors, but should be buried or destroyed by fire.
		Flag Bearer is then handed the stripes and she places them on the burning fire; when it has burned sufficiently she places the stars in the fire.
		Flag bearer is then handed the new flag and she, with the Color Guard, advance to the flag pole and raise the new flag.
	www.crgs.org /volunteers/resources/ceremonies/flag/retire2.htm (430 words)

	The (Semiotic) Stench of a Burning Flag (Amendment)
		Burning a flag is the customary way to "retire" a worn out flag--it would not be respectful to throw it in the garbage.
		By 1970, when a lot of young people were burning flags, it represented imperialist and self-deluded military adventures, as well as a hatred of dissent and of the young, and a call to mindless obedience as represented in the slogan "My Country Right or Wrong" that was often associated with the flag.
		Burning a flag is the use of a flag as a signifier to create a new sign.
	www.spectacle.org /296/flag.html (1680 words)

	Flag Burning - Your Right and Duty to Burn the Flag
		The burning of the flag is an act that asserts the right of the people over the government.
		Flag Burning is a patriotic act done by people who care deeply enough about our freedoms to challenge the government when it becomes a threat to the people.
		I call on all of you to begin organizing a massive flag burning to be held at the moment Bush is sworn in.
	www.flagburning.org (1526 words)

	U.S. Flag Code
		The flag of the United States shall be thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red and white; and the union of the flag shall be forty-eight stars, white in a blue field.
		The flag, when carried in a procession with another flag or flags, should be either on the marching right; that is, the flag's own right, or, if there is a line of other flags, in front of the center of that line.
		During the ceremony of hoisting or lowering the flag or when the flag is passing in a parade or in review, all persons present except those in uniform should face the flag and stand at attention with the right hand over the heart.
	www.steve4u.com /flagcode.htm (3161 words)

	USFlag.org: A website dedicated to the Flag of the United States of America - Flag Etiquette
		The flag should not be used as part of a costume or athletic uniform, except that a flag patch may be used on the uniform of military personnel, fireman, policeman and members of patriotic organizations.
		When the flag is displayed from a staff projecting from a window, balcony, or a building, the union should be at the peak of the staff unless the flag is at half staff.
		The flag of the United States of America should be at the center and at the highest point of the group when a number of flags of states, localities, or societies are grouped for display.
	www.usflag.org /flag.etiquette.html (1050 words)

	Flag Burning
		It was a case involving the burning of another symbol, however, in which the Supreme Court announced the test it would use to analyze expressive conduct cases.
		The Court concluded that the flag burning was "speech" and again determined that the flag desecration statute was aimed at the communicative impact of Johnson's message.
		The Court's decisions in the flag burning cases has led to numerous attempts to pass a constitutional amendment authorizing punishment of flag burning and mutilation, but so far the proposed amendment has fallen short of the two-thirds support necessary in the Senate.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/flagburning.htm (765 words)

	Flag (Burning) Day (washingtonpost.com)
		Flag burning could become a particularly exciting form of protest were it an affront not merely to social norms and decency but to the constitutional order itself.
		But even if flag burning were rampant already, writing censorship of expression into the Constitution would still be offensive.
		Burning flags is a particularly unpleasant form of expression.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A39328-2004Jun13.html (476 words)

	USATODAY.com - Vote on flag desecration may be 'cliffhanger' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		WASHINGTON — The Senate may be within one or two votes of passing a constitutional amendment to ban desecration of the U.S. flag, clearing the way for ratification by the states, a key opponent of the measure said Tuesday.
		The Citizens Flag Alliance, an advocacy group that supports a constitutional amendment, reports a decline in flag desecration incidents, with only one this year.
		"Burning, urinating, defecating on the flag — this is not speech.
	www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2005-06-14-flag-desecration-vote_x.htm (885 words)

	Flag Burning Ceremony
		Have one person hold the blue in her arms until the end of the ceremony because the blue and stars is the last part of the flag to be burned.
		burn it in the fire by laying it across the flames; not in a lump.
		If the flag to be burned is small or there is more than one flag to be burned at a time, the flag may (but not necessarily advised unless due to lack of time) be laid as a whole unit across the fire.
	www.wtrfrd.com /pack339/339flag1.htm (877 words)

	Steven Lee's Web Page on FLag Burning. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the past as well as recently there has been controversy over whether flag burning and or the desecration of it should be legal or illegal.
		Since the flag allows us freedom of speech, protest and expression, should we be allowed to burn flags and practice our rights of freedom of protest and expression, all which the flag itself represents.
		President Bush though allowed the Flag protection Act of 1989 to become law without his signature because he says an amendment is the only way to protect the flag from physical desecration.
	www.tcn.net /~opticom/Steve (959 words)

	People For the American Way - Hiding Behind the Flag
		Contact your Senators and urge them to protect the First Amendment and vote against the "Flag Amendment." Tell them that they can call flag burning whatever they like - "provocative," "offensive," "tasteless" - but that they must not pass constitutional amendments to permit laws that criminalize free expression.
		Flag Amendment supporters have never been closer to gutting our Constitution and placing the United States in the company of China, Cuba and Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
		While the Flag Amendment has passed the House of the Representatives in the past with the required 2/3 majority, it has always been stopped in the Senate.
	www.flagamendment.org (370 words)

	Encyclopedia: Flag burning
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		Paul Hopkinson, a Porirua schoolteacher, burned the Flag of New Zealand in 2003; he was charged with destroying a New Zealand flag with intent to dishonour it, but was found not guilty because flag burning was held to be a form of free speech protected under the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act.
		He did it again in July 2004 and was arrested again under another law, but charges were dropped following legal advice that, as flag-burning had been held as free speech this would apply to all other laws also.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Flag-burning (820 words)

	Secure Liberty - Flag Burning Amendment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Johnson, that flag burning was protected speech was not an example of judical activism.
		I find burning the American Flag to be distasteful, and it would sadden me to think someone hates their country enough to desecrate its' symbol.
		Johnson didn't make flag burning legal per se, it said that if the act, considering all the circumstances around it, amounted to an expression of some idea (speech), it was protected just as a verbal expression would be.
	secureliberty.org /index.php/2005/06/23/flag_burning_amendment (1221 words)

	firstamendmentcenter.org: commentary
		The flag waves more proudly than ever, diminished not one whit by a few scattered acts of disrespect over the years.
		Or the patriotic trucker who fails to replace a flag on his vehicle when wind and weather have done their damage.
		Amending the First Amendment would permanently mute the eloquence of our flag as a symbol and send a distressing message to Americans, as well as the rest of the world, that we are not who we thought we were and we don’t stand for what our flag has stood for.
	www.firstamendmentcenter.org /commentary.aspx?id=14012 (848 words)

	Is Burning 'Old Glory' Free Speech?
		Desecration of the American flag by burning is a particularly provocative insult: in a country that prides itself on freedom of speech, flag-burning is meant to test that freedom to its limits.
		Johnson, the Supreme Court upheld the decision that burning the flag was a form of free speech.
		Those who burn the flag are merely trying to provoke a reaction.
	www.speakout.com /activism/issue_briefs/1144b-1.html (829 words)

	Flag burning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Flag burning is a controversial area of speech.
		However, this attempt has always been hampered by the fact that burning is the approved and honorable way to retire a worn-out flag.
		Only burning a flag in anger is targeted by these statutes, which are therefore obviously attempts to punish unpopular speech.
	www.spectacle.org /freespch/musm/flag.html (114 words)

	Flag Burning Controversy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Discusses the demonstrations during the Vietnamese conflict in which American flags were burned as a sign of defiance by Americans who were against the war.
		For the third time, a proposed constitutional amendment aimed at prohibiting flag burning appears to be headed for defeat.
		Provisions of the flag protection resolution passed by the House of Representatives; Processes involved to approve a constitutional amendment; Overview of a Supreme Court decision for anyone who chose to burn or harm the U.S. flag.
	www.au.af.mil /au/aul/bibs/flag/flag.htm (859 words)

	GOP pushes flag burning amendment - March 24, 1999
		WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, March 24) -- A constitutional amendment to ban flag burning, which died in the Senate last year for lack of action, is getting a renewed push in the new legislative year by House Republicans.
		Supporters say that burning the flag is tantamount to a hate crime and is not constitutionally protected speech.
		If flag desecration becomes a hate crime, opponents says Congress is assuming the power to govern people's thoughts similar to the way communist or fascist systems do.
	www.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/03/24/flag.burning (532 words)

	Flag Burning Graphs
		When you love your country you want to show it and flags are about the best way to show your love for your country.
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	www.flags-american-flag.com /flags/10/flag-burning-graphs.html (291 words)

	Flag Burning
		Colonel Mike Pheneger expressed his thoughts on flag desecration better than I ever did: while it made him angry, he wrote, "It is a most powerful way for someone to tell us they believe we are doing something wrong, that we are not living up to our ideals.
		Passage of a constitutional amendment against desecration of the flag would be a grievous mistake, a triple travesty.
		True patriots, in America at least, would never salute a flag merely because they were told the law requires them to blindly respect it.
	www.summitlake.com /COMMENTARY/Flag.html (701 words)

	LP News Sep95 - A grand old flag? Does the U.S. really need to prohibit flag-burning?
		And yet, tragically, that same flag has become the pawn in an effort to whittle away at our most cherished freedoms-those very freedoms that it has stood for all these years.
		Bellamy wrote the pledge to help a Boston publisher sell flags through one of his magazines; it has been suggested that he also saw it as a way to instill veneration of the state and its symbols in the hearts and minds of schoolchildren.
		The U.S. flag, as we know it, is rectangular in shape, has a field of blue with 50 white stars in one corner, and thirteen alternating stripes of red and white.
	www.lp.org /lpn/9509-flag.html (1336 words)

	Shiffrin - Flag Burning
		He was protesting aganist the flag protection act of 1989 which was passed to circumvent the former Johnson decision.
		The SC rebuffed the prosecutions and held once again that the 1st amendment protects his right to burn the flag.
		Flag burning and meaning of the 1st amendment.
	hyper.vcsun.org /HyperNews/battias/get/cs328/c0512/4.html (815 words)

	Ashland, Oregon Flag Burners Face 1.5 Years : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sohl said the individuals went to, "an empty space on the plaza to burn the flag." She said the act was "done carefully" and with respect.
		The protesters were exercising their freedom of expression, burning the flag in denouncement of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq.
		Many people laid the tombstones with Iraqi names and ages in the ashes of the burned flag, in an eerie memorial to the senseless death rained down on the innocent in the streets of Baghdad, Mosul, Basra, Kirkuk, and all the other villages throughout Iraq.
	sf.indymedia.org /news/2003/04/1600540.php (810 words)

	"Judicial activism to protect flag burning"
		Johnson the Court said that flag burning was "symbolic speech" and "expressive conduct." Therefore our forefathers had intended that it be protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments.
		During the Civil War, public desecration of the American flag was viewed as treason and was punishable by death.
		As mentioned a few paragraphs earlier, public desecration of the American flag during the Civil War was viewed as treason.
	tempknak.home.att.net /FlagBurning.html (1484 words)

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