From: "Jerald Hellemeyer" <bippie-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Anti-Flag Desacration Act
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 11:02:18 CST





>The nice people in the USA government are now seriously 
>throwing around the idea of reinstating the Anti-Flag 
>Desacration Act, which says that an amerikan citizen 
>cannot desacrate or burn the Amerikan flag, even though 
>in the 1970's a supreme court decision was made stating 
>that this law is/was/will always be an infrigement on 
>first amendment rights. 

Actually, they are not just trying to make flag burning illegal (which 
they cannot do as per the supreme court ruling).  What they are trying 
to do is amend the U$ constitution thus making the supreme court 
decision invalid.  At that point they could reinstate the anti-flag 
burning law.  However, amending the constitution is no easy task.  First 
congress has to pass the amendment by a 2/3 vote.  Then it has to go to 
the state legislatures for ratification.  3/4 of the states must ratify 
the amendment for it to go into effect.  It is a very long process.

Jerald

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