I was refering to 2 members fighting here , video in OP has nothing to do with flag burning.
Yes we shouldn't be so touchy about these things , acting like emotional fools will only gonna do blunders for us (need example look West that country is filled with emotional people.
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Anyways here is a post from another thread by genmirajborgza786 bhai. Its on another topic but moral of the story is don't pay attention to losers.
Agreed. When India even pays and allows separatists to roam freely, why even get emotional about the flag and national anthem tunes.
This Is Why It’s Legal to Burn the American Flag
The Supreme Court declared on June 11, 1990, that laws against desecrating the flag are unconstitutional
It was shortly before the Fourth of July in 1989—two centuries after the Constitution of the United States took effect—when the Supreme Court declared that the government could not stop citizens from desecrating the nation’s flag.
“The patriotic mind recoils,” TIME’s Walter Isaacson
commented in the weeks that followed the decision. “Reverence for the flag is ingrained in every schoolchild who has quailed at the thought of letting it touch the ground, in every citizen moved by pictures of it being raised at Iwo Jima or planted on the moon, in every veteran who has ever heard taps played at the end of a Memorial Day parade, in every gold-star mother who treasures a neatly folded emblem of her family’s supreme sacrifice.”
Yet, he continued, that was precisely the reason why the court, in the case
Texas v. Johnson, declared that federal and state laws that protect the flag are in violation of free-speech protections. The flag is so revered because it represents the land of the free, and that freedom includes the ability to use or abuse that flag in protest.
Almost immediately after the ruling was made, President Bush
proposed a solution: a constitutional amendment that would exempt flag-desecration as protected speech. But the legislative branch struck first and
passed the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which made it criminal to desecrate the flag, regardless of motive. Protesters responded quickly by burning flags, in an attempt to get the issue back to the Supreme Court. Almost exactly a year after
Texas v. Johnson, their wish came true. In
United States v. Eichman, which was decided exactly 25 years ago, on June 11, 1990, the Supreme Court once again ruled that burning the flag was an example of constitutionally protected free speech.
Further attempts to protect the flag with an amendment were batted about in the years that followed, but they never went anywhere.
As Isaacson pointed out in returning to the issue the week after the
Eichman decision came down, the 1990s fight over flag-burning came at a time when the nation was seemingly less polarized:
Paradoxically, the willingness to scale back First Amendment permissiveness comes when the divisions in American society seem to be at a 25-year low. In the 1960s the battle between flag wavers and flag burners represented a traumatic schism over the Vietnam War and national morality in general. Even in those incendiary times, there was never a serious effort to pass a constitutional amendment. Now the issue has become, so to speak, less burning. With the ideological battles at home in abeyance and challenges from abroad less severe, it would seem that the nation would feel more secure about the glorious discomforts that come from tolerating forms of free speech — even when they are as offensive as the antics of flag burners or the lyrics of 2 Live Crew or the photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe
Burning the American Flag: This Is Why It's Legal
