Interesting; I always imagine it in terms of the late '60s - Vietnam protesters and the like. Guess I'm behind the times.
I'll defer to your knowledge on whether it's a myth. I'd thought of the flag in the US as roughly equivalent to the monarchy in the UK: something of little practical importance that people enjoy defending or desecrating depending on their background.
[I also thought that any flag-burning law would have to be a constitutional amendment - so the supreme court would be irrelevant, but Congress would have to sniff a *lot* of glue]
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Interesting; I always imagine it in terms of the late '60s - Vietnam protesters and the like. Guess I'm behind the times.
I'll defer to your knowledge on whether it's a myth. I'd thought of the flag in the US as roughly equivalent to the monarchy in the UK: something of little practical importance that people enjoy defending or desecrating depending on their background.
[I also thought that any flag-burning law would have to be a constitutional amendment - so the supreme court would be irrelevant, but Congress would have to sniff a *lot* of glue]