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Our right to protest can be conducted in many methods. By speech, by petition, by billboards, by sending letters, by holding up signs and walking around in circles, by televising concerns, by going on talk shows, radio shows, and even by burning the American Flag. Flag burning is only one of the many methods of negative expression. Today we debate over the American Flag, what does it stand for and what is it’s value. …

…think of outlawing spitting on our grounds, cause that surely shows disrespect to our land, our nation, our government, ourselves. The flag is a symbol of freedom, a symbol. The red bars are tributes to the blood shed by the colonists who revolted against tyrannical oppression, including censorship and the inability to protest against government policies. Flag burning destroy the flag, but if make an amendment to protect it, you destroy what is stands for.