docwebster | House Approves Flag-Burning Amendment

WASHINGTON - The House on Wednesday approved a constitutional amendment that would give Congress the power to ban desecration of the American flag, a measure rejected twice by the Senate in the past decade but expected to get a closer vote this year.

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"Ask the men and women who stood on top of the (World) Trade Center," said Rep. Randy (Duke) Cunningham, R-Calif. "Ask them and they will tell you: pass this amendment."

*FACEPALM*

(Agree with this or not, but if what that gibbering bastard said doesn't piss you off and the games the far Reich are playing with the memories of the fallen of That Day doesn't piss you off, then I frankly pity you.)

But Rep. Jerrold Nadler (news, bio, voting record), D-N.Y., said, "If the flag needs protection at all, it needs protection from members of Congress who value the symbol more than the freedoms that the flag represents."

Amen, brother, amen.