Flag burning is an exercise of that hard-won right to protest!

You guys fought hard and successfully to free yourselves from the yoke of British colonialism, to have the right to express yourselves freely and in whatever form.

Its fine to tut-tut and disapprove of those who burn the flag, but not to criminalize such behaviour. That goes against the entire ethos of a free nation.

But good ol' southern folk, fine and upstanding, what's right is right. Southern folk who firmly believe that women have no right to abort their babies, even if they are pregnant by rape or incest. You defend vehemently the right to bear those arms that are so, so, unnecessary now that your government is the most powerful in the world. Yee-ha! Guns don't kill, people do... and them darn varmint flag burnin' f@ggots are just askin' for it, ain't they!

Women and blacks in poverty and disenfranchised! Public school funding cut, defence spending increased! Tax cuts that benefit the wealthiest 1 per cent of your fine ol' country.

But so long as that good ol' flag is a-flyin'... ol' liberty.