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You know those folks in the Middle East who burn American flags, you know, Old Glory, to protest anything that happens in America? Well, there is no Amendment to the US Constitution that will stop it, less stating that we will go to war with any country that permits the burning of our flag on their soil.

I’m thinking Nuke ‘em, because if they want to burn something, I say we help them burn their whole country to the ground. It’s alot easier to use nuclear weapons to solve problems than it is to send troops to do that. I mean it’s a great thing to pass a law to protect that flag, but what’s the punishment? I hope utter DEATH!

You know all the troops have to pledge allegiance to the flag of United States of America, at least I think they do… hmmm…

I, Seaman/Airman Soldier, do solemly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed overme, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.

Well, I guess they don’t take a specific oath to protect the flag. Darn! I guess if we change the constitution, then we can have all sorts of laws to help defend the Flag. Dang… wait isn’t there already laws on the books to defend the flag?

<a title="Flag Code" href="http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=browse_usc&#38;docid=Cite:+4USC3">That would be Title 4, Chapter 1, Section 3 of the US Code. </a>

Sec. 3. Use of flag for advertising purposes; mutilation of flag

Any person who, within the District of Columbia, in any manner, for exhibition or display, shall place or cause to be placed any word, figure, mark, picture, design, drawing, or any advertisement of any nature upon any flag, standard, colors, or ensign of the United States of America; or shall expose or cause to be exposed to public view any such flag, standard, colors, or ensign upon which shall have been printed, painted, or otherwise placed, or to which shall be attached, appended, affixed, or annexed any word, figure, mark, picture, design, or drawing, or any advertisement of any nature; or who, within the District of Columbia, shall manufacture, sell, expose for sale, or to public view, or give away or have in possession for sale, or to be given away or for use for any purpose, any article or substance being an article of merchandise, or a receptacle for merchandise or article or thing for carrying or transporting Merchandise, upon which shall have been printed, painted, attached, or otherwise placed a representation of any such flag, standard, colors, or ensign, to advertise, call attention to, decorate, mark, or distinguish the article or substance on which so placed shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $100 or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days, or both, in the discretion of the court. The words “flag, standard, colors, or ensign’’, as used herein, shall include any flag, standard, colors, ensign, or any picture or representation of either, or of any part or parts of either, made of any substance or represented on any substance, of any size evidently purporting to be either of said flag, standard, colors, or ensign of the United States of America or a picture or a representation of either, upon which shall be shown the colors, the stars and the stripes, in any number of either thereof, or of any part or parts of either, by which the average person seeing the same without deliberation may believe the same to represent the flag, colors, standard, or ensign of the United States of America.

I guess that used car dealer and sellers of those plastic commuter cups, and those paper flags that are used on cakes, and bikinis that ladies wear that look like the flag, are probably all Breaking the Law, by someone’s interpretation of this code.

I know that Energy policy, healthcare, our troops, and immigration are all less important than creating a band of Flag police, since there is such an outbreak of anti-american flag burning sediment here in the good ol’ US of A. If it is passed, don’t you worry! I’ll be first in line to pass out the fines!