damn the muse

I was ready to declare July 4th as National Flag Burning Day, but I've been foiled. Thank goodness for small miracles.

The Senate failed to receive sufficient votes to pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting the desecration of the American flag. It failed by one vote. I find this both amusing yet terrifying that our Senate came this close to cutting into the First Amendment. See not many people have desecrated the flag, but when they do it's used to make a statement in our country. It's used to voice displeasure. No one has to agree with it. No one has to like the KKK, but thanks to the numero uno, that first amendment our founding fathers gave us because they were tired of the persecution, prohibition, pure protestantism, freedom of speech exists. We may not agree with it, but as long as it does us no physical harm then for the love of freedom itself stop taking our rights away.

"The Congress shall have power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States."

For the record this has to be the most overly broad amendment I have ever read. Does this mean that wearing a bikini with the stars and stripes equals a desecration? Think about it.