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Originally Posted by ApS
Theres good reason to be distressed; however, the Supreme Court wrote, 5/4, it was OK to burn the flag. Justice Scalia wrote in dissent:
Perhaps the answer is for all of us who would disagree with this boater is to display our flags properly--and everywhere. 
Mine's been out since the day I got here.  |
I agree we should all fly the flag correctly when we decide to display it, and it would never occur to me to have anything but pride in our flag. I'm even uncomfortable if one of my flags is folded incorrectly.
But Scalia did not write "in dissent". Scalia voted to uphold flag burning as constitutional. Based on the First Amendment, it is every American's right to express themselves, and in Scalia's view that included flag burning.
This freedom to protest is one of the things that so many have sacrificed so much to protect. We need to respect that sacrifice by understanding our history completely, even when it causes us to scratch our heads, as in this case.