Senators Have Nothing Better to Do than Worry about Flag Desecration

According to USA Today (http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-06-14-flag-desecration-vote_x.htm), the worthless scoundrels in the US Senate are within a couple of votes of passing an amendment to the Constitution to outlaw flag desecration. This will then go the states for ratification where there is the possibility that the sheeple will vote to restrict their own liberty. Orrin Hatch says flag desecration is not speech protected by the Bill of Rights, that it's just offensive behavior. Why would anyone desecrate a flag other than to make a political statement, Orrin? What really concerns Orrin and his ilk is that someone might not buy in to the idolatry of the state. Orrin does not see anything wrong with raising the flag in connection with an illegal and immoral war in Iraq or in flying the flag over the Capitol and White House where the USG does its evil deeds. That's real desecration, in my opinion. Every day, Orrin and his colleagues take the moral equivalent of a crap on the country that the flag used to stand for, and now they want us all to bow down and worship the federal government.

I don't own a US flag, and I don't want one. I will not fly one over my home or attach one to my car. I hate the USG, and displaying the flag has become a show of support for that government rather than an expression of love for my countrymen. Desecrating the flag shows contempt for the USG, and a healthy contempt for the USG is for me a sign of patriotism in an American.

In fact, American nationalism itself, which flag worship is meant to bolster, is probably unhealthy for freedom. When we think of ourselves as Americans, rather than Georgians or New Yorkers, it is easier to accept the idea of a powerful central government far removed from our daily lives. Orrin wants us not only to acquiesce in federal tyranny but to love it as well. I say get rid of your US flags now before it becomes illegal to do so.