Do you guys think flag burning is a right within the first amendment? Or do you feel that an amendment should had been passed to make it illegal to burn due to it's national significance.

I think a person has the right to burn a flag, a bra, or an effigy to make a point. I have no desire to do this, but I do believe that it is covered under the First Amendment. Since the Constitution is being ignored, though, what I think is moot.:rolleyes:

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i hate it when people say the constitution is ignored if you want to see what it would belike to have the constitution ignore move to china or the middle east for alittle while you will come back to america and sing a very different tune. As for burning the flag. i would say that it could be atuned to treason in my eyes. if you have so little respect for your own country as to burn the flag that men fought to hold up during war for this country you should be severly punished imo. but that is just me.

Yea, but didn't Justice Aaron Kennedy say, the constitution protects the things we hate, as well as the things we like? Of course that's not a direct quote.

i don't care that doesn't mean i have to like it. or support it or let someone do it when i see them doing it.

It's a political right.

Sorta like burning an effigy of Uncle Sam.

Might get you in trouble with the Fire Department, though.

SVT, you are likely ignorant of the Tenth Amendment. Which has been ignored for decades:

you know what i say. if you hate this country so much that you would resort to burning the flag maybe you need to find somewhere better to live.

I think anyone has the right to burn a flag just as I have the right to call them anti-American for doing so

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well you may or may not like burning an American flag, but it is protected and is not illegal.

Yes, I think so.
The symbols of the country should be protected.