What would the penalty be? A Fine, Federal penitentiary or Firing squad,

[LaPera]

(or all three), for the burning of a Flag?

How often does that come up, someone burning a flag?

Suppose it's an obsolete flag with 48 stars on it?

Or a flag missing all the stripes, and just the stars? Can you burn just some stripes? Can one burn a state flag, how about the Confederate flag?

If no on sees you burning a flag and they find a partially burned flag in your trash, (even if someone else might have put it there) what happens?

This is a bullshit non-issue the republicans throw out at Dem's every year, to see which ones are weak and will cave in!!!

Complete bullshit!

The flag is a piece of material, a symbol, and if any symbol at all, it's to express one's first amendment right to freedom of speech, and to be free enough to burn a flag, if one chooses...

For over 230 years Americans have always had that right (and until only recently, this fascism testing of loyalty, has never come up), and now this fascist dictatorship is doing the Jerry Falwell and the right-wing ideology dance, combining the flag, with God (and Jesus) and patriotism, all in one neat & tidy little oppressive package...making it a test of ones loyalty.

What gives them the right to question, and so what if you have a different opinion from others?

They have nothing better to do than point fingers?

They are trying desperately to shatter & crush any past thoughts of "Question Authority" or that, "Dissent is Patriotic" in future generations...

"Conformity" is what they are trying to achieve… to produce corporate robot workers, who just accept whatever they are given by the corporations, and good little Christian soldiers, who ask no questions, and go off to war to die for Jesus and the flag.