WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House voted overwhelmingly today for a proposed constitutional amendment against flag desecration, an issue pushed by conservatives since Republicans took over Congress in 1995.
The House tally, held two days before Flag Day, was 310-114.
Sigh, as we well know this is another ammendment (for another good example look at say the 18th) which degrades the US constitution and bill of rights by making the whole thing self contradictory. I now assume that flag burning will have penalties, and that "inciting" flag burning will be criminal??? All of those in the US: Time to get out the stars and stripes, some gasoline and the matches. Datacomms Technologies data security Paul Bradley, Paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk Paul@crypto.uk.eu.org, Paul@cryptography.uk.eu.org Http://www.cryptography.home.ml.org/ Email for PGP public key, ID: FC76DA85 "Don`t forget to mount a scratch monkey"