Freedom To Burn
March, 1990
This has been a pretty good year for flag burners, particularly in the Communist countries, where in one people's republic after another, the hammer and sickle has gone up in flames. And as each totalitarian regime crumbles, Americans seem determined to become a bit less free. We have a President whose juices seem to flow only over the prospect of forcing the citizenry to pledge allegiance to a flag that it must, under threat of a year in Federal prison, treat as a religious shroud.Last summer,...
