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- <text id=92TT0341>
- <title>
- Feb. 17, 1992: American Notes:Crime
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Feb. 17, 1992 Vanishing Ozone
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 37
- American Notes
- CRIME
- This Flag's Not For Burning
- </hdr><body>
- <p> More than two years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that burning
- the American flag is a constitutionally protected form of free
- expression. But some Southerners aren't about to make it easy
- for protesters to burn another flag they hold dear: the
- Confederate Stars and Bars.
- </p>
- <p> Last week a municipal judge in Shreveport, La., sentenced
- Ronald Hamilton to four days of community service for torching
- a Confederate flag outside the city's courthouse last July to
- protest a monument to Confederate soldiers. Since the city has
- no ordinance prohibiting flag burning, Hamilton was found guilty
- of violating a ban on illegal burning. Judge Lee Irvin told
- Hamilton that if he wanted to burn the flag, he should have
- sought a permit. Hamilton, who insists his right of free
- expression was violated, does not accept the judge's
- explanation. Says he: "The process to get a permit is designed
- to make sure that no one gets one."
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- </body></article>
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