[Stone Mountain]

I'm not sure I get your point. Are you saying that it's not a right, but it is legal? If that's the case, what is the point of such a distinction?

[Chummy]

"Burning the flag" is not a right.

"Burning the flag" is among those acts one should not do, according to the US Code.

"Freedom of speech" is a right, more particularly one of the rights given to us by God, described in the Bill of Rights, and secured by the blood of the citizens of the nation whose flag the jerk in Wausau was desecrating.

Somehow, over time, "burning the flag" has become an act that some consider an expression of their freedom of speech.

But in and of itself, it's not a right. It's quite wrong. And, logically, burning the US flag in protest is about as circular as one can get in this realm; in doing so, the actor is actually denouncing a nation that protects the right of free speech. Without this nation securing that right, how does the actor then burn a flag in protest?