Flag Burning (Revisited Again)

The main coherent opposition to flag burning lies in the fact that the flag is sacred. The opposition entertains the belief that an American flag is more important than fixing a corrupt government. Americans take more offense to a flag being burned than by q government that brutalizes its citizens, or a government that supports a biased justice system, or a government that chooses to invade other countries, slaughter innocents, and internally create a system of government in the country that looks favorably to the United States, but yet is more corrupt then the previous government. And all those things have happened in our United States. The newspapers are consistently depicting events in which a police officer beats a man or women for being black. They also depict men or women being freed from jail after 20 years after they were determined to be innocent of any crime. And look to Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and far worse Dresden for the slaughtering of innocents; and South Vietnam and Afghanistan for creating and supporting the corrupt government. But yet Americans choose to ignore the facts and instead choose to support their government and agree with its policies by not paying attention to flag burners and the protestors. Why is the flag sacred? Is it because it symbolizes a country that has slaughtered millions of innocents, or is it sacred because it symbolizes a country who prided itself on its racial tolerance when it practiced the worst slavery known in common history? These are the things that the American flag represents. It is the fixation that Americans have with their country and the infallibility of their country that precipitates the idea of the flag being sacred. The ultimate question becomes then, which is more important, a pure and just democracy or the American flag?