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Sorry - I realise that the kid stole and burned someone else's "stuff".
To a Brit, the crime would seem to be the same if it was someone else's bedsheets - it's "criminal damage" in our law, because someone else owns it.
The kid is a thief and a vandal, and deserves punishment, but I don't really get why it being the flag makes it worse than anything else.
After all - the founding fathers were largely christian fundamentalists, and venerated the 10 commandments as almost the most important foundation of a right thinking society, and yet the flag that they gave to the nation has become a graven image - the OBJECT is worshipped, as much as the thing it symbolises.
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Overhead, the Albatross hangs motionless upon the air,
And deep beneath the rolling waves,
In labyrinths of Coral Caves,
The Echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand;
And everthing is Green and Submarine
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