This won't stop it being burnt! How can you control this? It could be treated as an offence if anyone witnesses such and the perpetrator taken to court...that's about the most you can do.

Where's Rick Monday when you need him? I hate to go with the flow here but agree with the concensus, it is part of their 1st Amendment rights to burn the flag, so long as everyone who burns the American flag accepts the consequences of their actions (within the law) and defends the right of fellow Americans to proudly fly the Stars & Bars. It's just a piece of material, right?

Sadly I must defend the right for idiots to be idiots, but did anybody ever see the clip of the fool that caught on fire while burning the flag?

Louie, in our belief we are on the same page. In our love of our country and reverance for our flag, we are again on the same page. I just think if it was against the law to burn the flag, it would take away the very rights our veterans fought and died for. I say this as the son of a veteran, as someone who served my country, and as the father of a serviceman. Having said that, I do believe that we can publicly scorn someone who would think so little of their country, and I would have no problem whatsoever deporting some immigrant who would choose to do this, but I do understand your feeling and logic on this and respect it. O.C: I was going to comment, but read Jed1000's excellent comment and decided I didn't have anything further to add to it. But let me sy this, I love my country and the flag, and probably wouldn't tolerate it if it was being done in front of me.

Beyond brain dead concept. Advocated by people who genuinely don't understand what this country is about. Free expression means free expression, dammit! ESPECIALLY when it is something we don't like - that is when the 1st Amendment is most necessary. Is this a nation of liberty or is it a nation of censorship? I vote for the former.

Aggressively stupid. You're for freedom or against it. Flag-burners need a real job, but their importance is only heightened by the emotional (not intellectual) response they cause. I wish a person would burn a flag in front of. . .nobody. That's the best way to show someone how irrelevant they are. But remember, you don't deserve the freedom for yourself that you would deny someone else. Free speech isn't for you, it's for idiots too. ..

It's a piece of material that represents the colors of a nation, get real. Some people act like it's an idol of some sort, the same people who preach about not having idols.

I am sure if you sat down with some WWII vets they would disagree.I am sure they would not say,Hey that is fine,afterall that is what we fought and died for.I believe in freedoms, but not this one.

Make it a crime to burn the flag and we cheapen and diminish what the flag represents by relegating it to a pagan icon that ultimately stands for nothing. People have fought and died for the freedom of expression that that flag represents. Sure, some of us may be offended when we see the flag burned in protest.. but we can be proud that we live in a country that gives people that much freedom. As for being offended, well.. I'll refer back to a quote I've used before. If you never encounter anything that offends you, you don't live in a free society. - Kim Campbell.. former Prime Minister of Canada