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	Flag Rules and Regulations
		When the flag is displayed over the middle of the street, it should be suspended vertically with the union to the north in an east and west street or to the east in a north and south street.
		When the flag of the United States is displayed from a staff projecting horizontally or at an angle from the window sill, balcony, or front of a building, the union of the flag should be placed 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 or localities or pennants of societies are grouped and displayed from staffs.
	www.ushistory.org /betsy/flagetiq.html (12369 words)

	Flag desecration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Flag desecration is a blanket term applied to various acts that intentionally deface or dishonor a flag, most often a national flag (though other flags may be defaced as well).
		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.
		On June 27, 2006, the most recent attempt to pass a ban on flag burning was rejected by the Senate in a close vote of 66 in favor, 34 opposed, one vote short of the two-thirds majority needed to send the amendment to be voted on by the states.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flag_desecration (2339 words)

	Displaying the Flag
		When the flag is displayed over the middle of the street, it should be suspended vertically with the union to the north in an east and west street or to the east in a north and south street.
		When the flag of the United States is displayed from a staff projecting horizontally or at an angle from the window sill, balcony, or front of a building, the union of the flag should be placed 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 or localities or pennants of societies are grouped and displayed from staffs.
	www.vfwpost1503.org /displaying_the_flag.html (3289 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.
		Since “desecration” is a metaphysical concept that means to strip something of its sacredness or to profane a holy object, the new flag police will have to make moral judgments about whether our flag has been dishonored in a particular case.
		The Confederate flag is historically the worst and clearest defacement of the U.S. Flag.
	www.campusprogress.com /features/364/the-confederate-flag-desecration (723 words)

	American Civil Liberties Union : Reasons to Oppose the Flag Desecration Amendment
		Flag burning and desecration is offensive because it is political.
		The use of the flag as symbol is ubiquitous, from commerce, to art, to memorials, such that Congress would be in the position of defining broad rules for specific applications.
		Congress, the courts, and law enforcement agents would have to judge whether displaying the flag on Polo jeans is "desecration," but the Smithsonian's recent removal of two million stitches from the 188-year old flag that inspired Frances Scott Key, is not.
	www.aclu.org /freespeech/flag/11167res20040304.html (516 words)

	Citizens' Flag Alliance: Flag Desecration Acts
		The flags were on the Avenue of Flags as a salute to the victims of the September 11 tragedy.
		The flag had been burned and all that remained was a charred pole and one of the yellow ribbons she had attached to her flag pole in honor of the three U.S. soldiers who were being held captive in Yugoslavia.
		Flags have also been stolen and desecrated in Sterling Heights, Shelby Township and Auburn Hills, and police believe it is the work of the same individual, who has identified himself in writings left behind as the 'Motor City Magic Man.' Some of the flags have been recovered with a fl 'X' written across them.
	www.cfa-inc.org /issues/burnings.htm (7633 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.
		The case left for banning flag desecration is its offensive, disgusting, and unpopular nature.
		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)

	pumpkinhead column: flag desecration
		As a friend of mine once said while arguing in favor of outlawing flag desecration, freedom of expression is limited to that which is not prohibited by God's law.
		Others have argued that burning the flag is treasonous, or reeks of insurrection because the flag is somehow "public property" or because burning the flag undermines the nation.
		Most average citizens hold the flag in respect, yet it means different things to different people and it is improper that the citizenry should not be allowed to hold and express views regarding the flag which differ from the norm.
	pieterfriedrich.com /desecration.html (728 words)

	Health troubles persist for 9/11 rescue workers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Eighty-two years later, in 1989, the court concluded that the Constitution's right of free speech permitted the flag to be desecrated, even by burning it.
		The House routinely has approved the flag amendment by broad majorities, but the Senate twice has fallen short of the necessary two-thirds vote needed to send the question to the states for ratification.
		Dousing flags with kerosene and setting them on fire, which became an eye-catching way of protesting the Vietnam War in the 1960s and 1970s, happens infrequently today.
	www.infowars.com /articles/us/flag_desecration.htm (769 words)

	Timeline of Flag Desecration Issues
		Nebraska (205 U.S. 34) — The Supreme Court held that although the flag was a federal creation, the States' had the authority to promulgate flag desecration laws under their general police power to safeguard public safety and welfare.
		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.ushistory.org /betsy/more/desecration.htm (1006 words)

	Chronology of Flag Burning
		Joey Johnson burns a flag but is not charged, in a move to separate him (as a symbol of the Supreme Court precedent in his case) from the government's attempt to reverse that precedent.
		December 1989 - January 1990 -- Motions to dismiss the flag desecration charges in Seattle and DC as unconstitutional are filed by attorneys led by William Kunstler and David Cole of the Center for Constitutional Rights.
		February - March 1990 -- The flag desecration charges are dismissed by Federal District Court Judges 2/23/90 in Seattle and 3/5/90 in DC on the grounds that the Flag Protection Act is unconstitutional.
	www.esquilax.com /flag/chronlog.html (1614 words)

	GP Guide -- Flag Desecration
		Regarding desecration and the imposition of penalties, it is his contention that the costs do outweigh the benefits; however, he believes that laws prohibiting desecration are no more and no less efficient than other laws.
		The Wisconsin Court of Appeals affirmed the Circuit Court's dismissal of flag desecration charges against Matthew C. Janssen, who admitted to stealing numerous U.S. flags and defecating upon one of them, by concluding that Wisconsin's flag desecration statute was overbroad and unconstitutional.
		The history of flag desecration statutes is provided, and many pertinent cases are discussed.
	www.wiu.edu /library/govpubs/guides/flagburn.htm (742 words)

	TomPaine.com - The Original Flag Desecration (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It only will be a crime to burn a flag in a context that suggests you have a political message critical of a nearby government official or authority figure.
		Because "desecration" is a metaphysical concept that means to strip something of its sacredness or profane a holy object—and the "flag" is any of its parts in any form—the new flag police will have to make moral judgments about the infinite popular uses of the flag in messy everyday life.
		But the federal flag police will have one easy and unambiguous target, now seen on beach towels, pom poms and baseball caps everywhere: the flag of treason, slavery and armed destruction of the Union that was deliberately designed to desecrate our own.
	www.tompaine.com /articles/2005/07/05/the_original_flag_desecration.php (1124 words)

	Pandagon :: Asheville, NC: alleged flag desecration results in fight and arrests :: July :: 2007
		The flag may be flown upside down as a distress signal, but it should not serve as a prop expressing a political point.
		Wait for the court decision that although the political use of flags has been repeatedly declared legal for almost 40 years, the officers who did the arresting had a good-faith belief that the law they were enforcing was valid, so that neither they nor their employer should get in any trouble.
		Flags on pizza boxes and on large stickers, or flag cross-stitch pillow patterns or underwear I find humorous, and also tasteless, but I could never imagine myself supporting fines or jail time for someone who would choose to desecrate or burn a flag.
	pandagon.blogsome.com /2007/07/29/asheville-nc-alleged-flag-desecration-results-in-fight-and-arrests (2909 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Senate rejects flag burning ban
		The ban's backers argued the flag was a cherished symbol needing protection while opponents warned against tampering with freedom of speech.
		At a time of war, he said, it was important to protect the flag as a symbol of freedom and national unity.
		There have been regular votes in the US Congress on outlawing desecration since the US Supreme Court ruled in 1989 and 1990 that burning the Stars and Stripes was an example of free speech and protected by the American constitution.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/5123730.stm (511 words)

	CNN.com - Flag-burning amendment fails by a vote - Jun 28, 2006
		A constitutional ban on flag burning is seen as being more widely popular than the proposed amendment to ban same-sex marriages.
		"Flag burning is a form of expression that is spiteful or vengeful," the five-term senator said.
		Johnson that flag burning was a political statement and that state laws banning it were unconstitutional.
	www.cnn.com /2006/POLITICS/06/27/flag.burning/index.html (702 words)

	DeKalb County Marines - The Flag
		The American flag was raised over Mount Surabachi upon the bodies of thousands of dead buddies.
		Away from family, away from the precious shores of home, in the face of overwhelming odds and often in the face of death, the American flag inspires those who believe in the American dream, the American promise, the American vision...
		So if you want to desecrate the American flag, before you spit on it or before you burn it, I have a simple request.
	www.geocities.com /dcmarines/flag.html (589 words)

	Irrationality Marches On; The Proposed Flag Desecration Amendment
		If it’s any of the flags on government buildings, anyone caught doing harm to those can already be charged with destroying government property and be sent to prison.
		If some idiot decides to tear down the flag that’s on the pole outside my house, he can and would definitely be charged by me with trespassing and destruction of personal property…and I might well do him some bodily harm while waiting for the police to arrive.
		Houston, TX Ed Menken edmenken@yahoo.com is a semi-retired strategic marketing and media relations guy, a former "dot-com" company founder (the company went belly-up when the tech market crashed in 2001) and, among other things, a life-long news and current events sponge.
	www.opednews.com /menken_062305_flag_desecration.htm (965 words)

	Wisconsin Free Speech Legacy - Flag Desecration
		Flag burning may be offensive, but it is a necessary tool of protest in the most severe of cases.”4
		There is no speaking involved with desecration of the flag when someone spits on it or burns it.
		Flag burning as protected speech is a very difficult concept to understand….[B]ut through studying and role playing such cases as Texas v.
	www.uwstout.edu /faculty/shiellt/freespeech1/flag/reaction.htm (1350 words)

	ABC News: Senate Rejects Flag Desecration Amendment
		WASHINGTON Jun 27, 2006 (AP)— A constitutional amendment to ban flag desecration died in a Senate cliffhanger Tuesday, a single vote short of the support needed to send it to the states for ratification and four months before voters elect a new Congress.
		It represented Congress' response to Supreme Court rulings in 1989 and 1990 that burning and other desecrations of the flag are protected as free speech by the First Amendment to the Constitution.
		Senate supporters said the flag amounts to a national monument in cloth that represents freedom and the sacrifice of American troops.
	abcnews.go.com /Politics/wireStory?id=2126247 (389 words)

	Flag Burning, National Symbols and Free Speech: Elsewhere
		Despite that recognition the majority of US states retain flag protection enactments, typically modelled on the jingoistic Uniform Flag Law of 1917 prohibiting desecration of the flag or its use for advertising and publicity purposes, and in practice state/local police forces appear to have restricted attacks through restrictions on disorderly conduct or other offences.
		The Code for example notes that "no part of the flag should ever be used as a costume or athletic uniform" and that it "should not be embroidered on such articles as cushions or handkerchiefs and the like, printed or otherwise impressed on paper".
		In another (a precursor of a similar item by Andres Serrano discussed here) the flag was fashioned into an erect phallus attached to a seven foot cross topped by a bishop's miter.
	www.caslon.com.au /flagfiresnote2.htm (673 words)

	USFlag.org: A website dedicated to the Flag of the United States of America - Constitutional Amendendment Issue
		The amendment is in response to Supreme Court rulings in 1989 and 1990 that struck down federal and state statutes prohibiting flag desecration, holding that those laws infringed on the right to free speech and expression under the First Amendment.
		Opponents argued that flag burnings are extremely rare, with the Congressional Research Service reporting three incidents last year and none the year before - hardly enough, they said, to merit an assault on free-speech rights guaranteed by the First Amendment.
		Flags don't have rights, only people do, and while I agree that burning the flag is offensive, individuals don't have the right to not be offended.
	www.usflag.org /amendment.html (2414 words)

	Flag Desecration Amendment Passes House
		A survey conducted by Opinion Research Corporation, June 16-19, revealed that 81 percent of the American people believe flag desecration should be against the law; 75 percent of those surveyed favored a constitutional amendment that would allow such a law.
		Senator John Thune (R-SD), who introduced a flag protection amendment in the Senate a few months ago, said, “I applaud today’s action in the House of Representatives to protect the American flag.
		Legally sanctioned flag desecration can only serve to further undermine this national unity and identity that must be preserved.
	www.dakotavoice.com /200506/20050622_4.asp (854 words)

	A Flag Desecration Amendment (Testimony)
		For the flag is not simply the symbol of America; more deeply, it is the symbol of the principles on which this nation rests.
		Those who would desecrate the flag are thus guilty, at bottom, of desecrating our principles, which is why we find their acts so offensive.
		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)

	Flag amendment fails by one vote - Politics- msnbc.com
		WASHINGTON - A constitutional amendment to ban flag desecration died in a Senate cliffhanger Tuesday, a single vote short of the support needed to send it to the states for ratification a week before Independence Day.
		The resolution represented Congress' response to Supreme Court rulings in 1989 and 1990 that burning and other desecrations of the flag are protected as free speech by the First Amendment to the Constitution.
		The bill, not a constitutional amendment, would have made it against the law to damage the flag on federal land or with the intent of breaching the peace or intimidation.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/13579789 (691 words)

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