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I agree about Tom and Peter (I have a wonderful videotape of Jennings trying to figure out how to ad-lib a story about the House voting down the flag-burning amendment; apparently, they don't teach the American constitutional amendment process in Canadian schools), but I do think Dan should pick a hair color and stick to it.
George Will has written column after column sermonizing about First Amendment excesses, lecturing sternly about the difference between "speech" and "action," and ridiculing the idea that (for example) flag-burning sends a political message and therefore qualifies for First Amendment protection.
The 1960s American ban on Cuban cigars so devastated Fidel Castro that American policy-makers didn't hesitate, a decade later, to punish the flag-burning ayatollahs with a similar ban on Iranian caviar.
The ultrapatriotic want an amendment to ban flag-burning (hell, why not just mandate flag-waving?)
Like Supreme Court Justice Kennedy, I have only a tenuous grasp of constitutional law, but won't this sort of thing be taboo once that flag-burning amendment passes?