"David Downey" <digital_matrix@hotmail.com> wrote:

Although I agree that the U.S flag should not be burned (and yes I am also a veteran having served 8 years in the U.S Armed Forces), I can see other floks points in allowing the flag to be burned. I will never support it, yet since I served to keep the ability to choose a freedom that we enjoy, I do not oppose that sentiment.

"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." - Noam Chomsky "We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship." - E. M. Forster "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - Voltaire The question that needs to be asked is, what does that flag represent that is being burned? Does it represent the constitutional republic and respect for individual liberty that America was founded upon? Or does it represent the socialist democracy and the arbitrary herd mentality view of "freedom" into which America has devolved? If the latter, then pass me the gasoline and the matches. An American