Dave, you are using phoney arguments here to try and make your point. Buring a flag that one has purchased is hardly arson. You cannot equate it with deliberately burning a building. There is no danger of loss of life. The loss is merely the cost of the flag, and because the burner purchased it, it is not public property. Behaviour contrary to the public peace?????????? Imagine if we had held that standard to the founding fathers. Or the Chicago Seven. Or the protestors against McCarthy. Protest is a part of our heritage. It is our right. It is what I shed blood for. Having the ability to protest our own governments actions is a right I find worth dying for.

It appears to me that you are using ridiculous arguments to try and uphold your position. I have great respect for your comments in this forum, you are a long term respected member. But I think you are way off the mark on this one.

Mick