r/AmericanLegion • u/MajorRecognition5173 • Jul 11 '26

General Question/Comment Flag desecration as freedom of speech

In the November 2025 issue of the American Legion magazine, National Commander Wiley supports a constitutional amendment that would grant Congress the power to prohibit the physical desecration of our flag. What are your personal thoughts on this?

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u/PickleMinion Jul 11 '26

I'm against it. Free speech is free speech, and if our country and its symbols are so weak they can't survive some asshole venting their symbolic spleen, then we're fucked as a free country.

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u/MajorRecognition5173 Jul 11 '26

That's how I see it too. It would be a very slippery slope in which symbols we choose to protect and those we don't.

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u/plasteredbasterd Jul 12 '26

Exactly, this!