flag desecration photo essay by barry j. lipson, esq

7/21/2019 Flag Desecration Photo Essay by Barry J. Lipson, Esq.

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fl g desecr tion photo ess y

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Photo Essay Cover1

Table of contents - 2

Preface - 3

Andy Warhol-Type Flag

Desecration - 4

Burning Bushes - 5

Skin Pics - 6

Dressed To Desecrate - 7

Tie Some On! - 8

US Body Paint Frontal - 9

World Body Paint - 10

Wrap It Up - 11

Up Top - 12

Down Bottom - 13

Not Left Behind - 14

Done Swimmingly - 15

Lying Around - 16

Tattoo Boo-Boo - 17

Toonville - 18

Marketing Mania - 19

Spectaculars - 20

Potpourri - 21

Mar & Mangle - 22

Burn Baby Burn US - 23

Burn World Burn24

& In The UK25

Epilogue26

Addenda27 - END


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flag desecration preface

F lag Desecration is an ambiguous term that means different things to different people. Some people would be shocked to fthe toilet paper they were forced to use in someone elses rest room bore images of the flag of their nation. The genedefinition of Flag Desecration is the act of intentionally destroying, damaging, mutilating or defacing a flag. President Geo

W. Bush's and Presidential candidate John McCain's intentional signing of American Flags as souvenirs, as pictured here, wo

certainly be flag defacement and mutilation. As would the American Legion's, Boy Scouts' and other organizations perioburning of flags that are past their prime, be intentional acts of damaging and destroying flags.

T he use of the flag as a symbol is ubiquitous and such use is found, among other places, in public, private and patrioceremonies, memorials, art, entertainment, commerce, advertising, marketing, labeling, logos, trademarks, clothing, to

designs of all kinds, and in political speech, pro, con and all degrees in-between. All such uses could arguably come within

ambit of Flag Desecration. Thus, the ACLU has queried, would "displaying the flag on Polo jeans" be "desecration, but Smithsonian's recent removal of two million stitches from the 188-year old flag that inspired Frances Scott Key" not be?

F lag Desecration, including flag burning and destruction, is considered as a part of the right to free speech under the FAmendment to the U.S. Constitution. Thus, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (U.S. 198

established that the defacing a flag is an act of protected speech under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:

We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so we dilute the freedom

that this cherished emblem represents. --Justice William Brennan

See also John Glen, Astronaut & former U.S. Senator: Our most revered symbol [our Flag] stands for freedom bu

not freedom itself. We must not let those who revile our way of life trick us into diminishing our great gift or ev

take a chance of diminishing our fr eedoms.So George Bush and John McCain were within their Constitutional Rightso defacing flags for their constituents, no matter any Act of Congress or Code to the contrary.

T his Flag Desecration Photo Essay, besides saving thousands upon thousands of words, pictorially displays many exampleflag use and abuse that could arguably be construed as Flag Desecration, and which could conceivable become crimina

unlawful if First Amendment Free Speech protection was to be abrogated, including in the Addenda Exoticon Winners,

2011 Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, and The Colbert Report and Eagle! (While full disclosure & exposure requires inclusion of exposed body parts, pasties have been strategically, yet discreetly applied for those who crave censorship.)

Barry J. Lipson


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U S President George H W Bush wrapped himself in the Flag visiting Flag Factoriessupported Flag Amendment to U.S.Constitution, to which the U.S.Supreme Court responded:

We do not consecrate the flag bypunishing its desecration, for in doing

so we dilute the freedom that this

cherished emblem represents.

--William Brennan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Texas v. Johnson, 1989

Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She? by Molly Ivins (1991): "Bush's lastbirthday cake was in the form of the American flag, and he ate it - stars, stripes, and all.

Think about where that flag wound up - I call that desecration." Molly has also said: "I

prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over

someone who burns the Consti tut ion and then wraps themselves up in the flag.


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and now the u.S.

itself has become a

potential

Flag desecrator . . .


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