flag burning

A couple of days ago, Congress voted not to pass an anti-flag-burning amendment. I agree with that decision, because if the flag were protected in that way, it would diminsh the freedom that it stands for.

Beyond that, Wizbang points out one benefit I hadn't thought of:

"The flag-burners serve a very valuable public service. How else can they so quickly pronounce themselves as ignorant, hateful, irrelevant a******s than by publicly burning a flag? It saves a huge amount of time in weighing whether or not they are worth our time and attention in debating them."