If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slavery, is sanctioned by that government and can still legally exist.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.
It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be accomplished by passing a Constitutional amendment.
This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.
I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.
I can't tell people what flag to fly.
We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents.
Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear upon passage of the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which prohibited desecration of the flag.
The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.
We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.
If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.