Flag shenanigans part 2

Brad makes a nice point:

The day that flag desecration is made illegal, by an amendment to the constitution, no less, it will signify a failure. It will signify that our government has decided that loving the name and symbols of this great nation are more important than whether those symbols still hold any meaning. It will be a sad day when our government asks that we place our faith in government and nationalism instead of freedom and individualism. It just may mean the end of this grand American experiment, when instead of continually advancing liberty, we retreat from it.