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I can understand burning the flag would be offensive to many, a slap in the face. Yet the flag is simply a symbol of our country, not the thing itself.
To create, for example, a constitutional amendment to ban flag burning is to miss the point entirely. What makes this country great is that a person _can_ burn a flag in the service of free speech, not that he or she can't. Whether it is actually the right thing to do or not is a matter of personal judgment (subject to the conflicting judgment of others, as on this board), not of crime. If this country was actually so fragile that certain kinds of political theater could not be allowed, then we would be in deep trouble.
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