Trump signs order aiming for one-year jail terms for flag burning

[Ms. Toad]

26. It isn't a way I would choose to protest.

I've never (at least since I was pre-teens) said the pledge of allegiance. Pledging my allegiance to a piece of cloth just doesn't speak to me. My allegiance is to God and to all of humankind way before it is to a piece of cloth that represents dogmatic nationalism.

I also don't think it is effective - protests which are effective don't file people up without making them think. Flag burning almost exclusively riles people up for no reason other than they have internalized that the flag is sacred. If they aren't thinking, they aren't likely to change their ways.

I'm not convinced that boycotting is the most effective way either (although I am currently boycotting Target). It runs the risk of harming people who are caught in the low-skilled/take whatever job you can get cycle. What was effective during the vietnam era were large multi-generational protests. What was effective in the civil rights era were "likeable" people who put their names and lives on the line. I don't know yet what will be effective here - but chance that it is flag burning are slim to none.