Ok, if you have been watching the news lately, you've noticed about the Burning of our Countries Colors to be banned. It missed being passed by one vote, thus not getting the 2/3's of the votes to get it ratified. This seems to be a ho topic at the moment; being on a lot of radio and tv news shows.

But my question is, what is your thoughts on it. Don't give spam answers of "it's just not right", "It's stupid", etc. Back up your opinion on it.

In my own personal opinion, I think that it is somewhat taking away our freedom of Speech. According to our First amendment we have freedom of Religion, Assembly, Petition, Press, and Speech. If we take away our ability to burn the Flag in protest and speaking out of wrong doing of the Gov't, then in turn, we are taking away part of our Constitutional Right of the First Amendment.

I personally am not one to go out and burn a flag in protest of the Gov't. I see it more fit to find a solution through more simple means of "talking it out" I guess you would say. The burning of the Flag used in protests is usually no more than a way to smack the Gov't in the face and tell them to pay attention, so the protesters can get there 15 secs. of fame on TV or Radio and let the people hear what they want to say.

-NC

__________________