Actually, I don't think anyone who has not done any type of public service has really earned their rights. Those rights were earned for them by the people who did do public service. Sure they deserve them, but have they earned them simply because they were born here? Not in my opinion. How can you earn something by doing nothing? Doesn't mean I think that people should not be allowed to exercise their rights though.
In any case, my original post had nothing to do with the Bill of Rights. When I said, "They haven't earned any right to open their mouths about something like that" I meant more along the lines of me having no right to walk up to a Gunny and telling him what to do. Sure, freedom of speech has accorded me the right to run my mouth, but I have no right to tell someone better than me what to do.
And furthermore, it actually is against the law for a foreign flag to be raised above the US flag.
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No other flag or pennant should be placed above or, if on the same level, to the right of the flag of the United States of America, except during church services conducted by naval chaplains at sea, when the church pennant may be flown above the flag during church services for the personnel of the Navy.
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When flags of two or more nations are displayed, they are to be flown from separate staffs of the same height. The flags should be of approximately equal size. International usage forbids the display of the flag of one nation above that of another nation in time of peace.
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Look, I don't like flag burning or hanging the flag upside down, but I also think that soldiers die for more than a scrap of cloth. They die for the ideas that that scrap represents, and one of those ideas happens to be free speach, which is an inalienable right regardless of whatever your notion who has "earned" that right or not.
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Blah blah blah... Burning a flag or hanging it upside down is more than just burning a scrap of cloth. Burning a flag represents a disrespect and disregard for the ideas that the flag stands for. Military personnel go through a lot of trouble raising and lowering the flag each day and playing colors. Do they do all that for a scrap of cloth? No, they do it because the flag is a symbol.
And like I said before, it is illegal to hang a foreign flag above the US flag, so they don't even have that right.