Flag amendment is un-American

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: July 13, 1998| Author: Roger Ebert | Copyright information

Why are so many flag wavers determined to undermine what the flag stands for?

Why isn't it obvious that the ``flag amendment" is the sort of legislation that would be embraced in a dictatorship like Cuba or North Korea, but has no place in a free society such as ours?

Isn't it sad that so many Americans have no instinctive sympathy for freedom of speech and our other freedoms? Did they doze through civics class?

The flag amendment would amend the Constitution to mak...

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