We Don't Need No Water...

Next up for our good friends in the Legislative Branch is a proposed amendment to the Constitution that will ultimately ban the burning of our flag.

Before I go into this, I have to say the following. I am personally opposed to flag-burning. I think it desecrates the highest ideals of what our nation is intended to be. I do not like it.

That said, I do not believe it is something that should be made illegal.

If someone wishes to burn a flag, who are we to say that is wrong?

Because I don't like it?

I don't like religion. Let's ban that. How about Conservativism. Maybe we should make it illegal to be Conservative in this country. After all, they are the historically progress-hindering bunch who kept us into slavery, led us to Civil War, instituted racism against black Americans and European immigrants, led the Prohibition charge, fought for segregation, foought against women's rights and put us in Iraq.

What has a flag-burner done, other than start a fire?

The point is, I believe this is yet another terrible attempt on the part of certain people to control what we do, what we think and how we conduct our lives.

And if that is the way our nation is headed, then I say let the flags burn.