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      <P><!--plsfield:byline--><FONT size=3D-1><I>By Nat =
Hentoff</I></FONT><BR><!--plsfield:credit--><FONT =
size=3D-1></FONT><BR><!--plsfield:disp_date--><FONT size=3D-1>Saturday, =
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      <P></FONT><!--plsfield:description-->Last year, while Congress was =

      debating whether to diminish the First Amendment by punishing =
desecration=20
      of the flag, Keith Kreul -- an Army veteran and a past national =
commander=20
      of the American Legion -- testified before the Senate Judiciary =
Committee.=20
      He was angry at this move to amend the Bill of Rights for the =
first time=20
      in our history:=20
      <P>"Our nation was not founded on devotion to symbolic idols, but =
on=20
      principles, beliefs and ideals expressed in the Constitution and =
its Bill=20
      of Rights. American veterans who have protected our banner in =
battle have=20
      not done so to protect a 'golden calf.' Instead they carried the =
banner=20
      forward with reverence for what it represents -- our beliefs and =
freedom=20
      for all. Therein lies the beauty of our flag."=20
      <P>Kreul also told the Senate Judiciary Committee: "A patriot =
cannot be=20
      created by legislation."=20
      <P>Nonetheless, the House roared forward and passed a =
constitutional=20
      amendment -- by a whopping 310 to 114 -- empowering Congress to =
prohibit=20
      the desecration of the flag. In the Senate, a move to bring the =
amendment=20
      to the floor under limited debate was blocked, in accordance with =
Senate=20
      rules, by Sens. Robert Kerrey (D-Neb.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.).=20
      <P>Had there been a vote, two or three senators could have =
permanently=20
      changed the Constitution -- the vote was that close.=20
      <P>In a previous hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, =
Russell=20
      Feingold (D-Wis.) had told his colleagues some countries indeed =
punish=20
      desecration of the national flag. Iran, he said, provides a =
punishment of=20
      up to 10 years; Haiti mandates a life sentence at hard labor; and =
the more=20
      tolerant Cuban sanction is imprisonment for up to one year.=20
      <P>Feingold asked if the Senate wanted to add the United States to =
that=20
      list of governments unfettered by a Bill of Rights. He did not get =
a=20
      standing ovation.=20
      <P>Our native desecrators of the American flag have returned. =
Randy "Duke"=20
      Cunningham (R-Calif.) has introduced H. J. Res. 33, which proposes =
a=20
      flag-desecration amendment to the Constitution that would be =
attached if=20
      ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures within seven =
years of=20
      its submission for ratification.=20
      <P>This emulation of the patriotic values of Iran, Haiti and Cuba =
now has=20
      at least 269 cosponsors in the House. The historic assault on the =
First=20
      Amendment will be heard before the subcommittee on the =
Constitution,=20
      chaired by Charles Canady (R-Fla.). During the impeachment =
proceedings,=20
      Canady was an impressive constitutionalist, but he apparently is =
not=20
      immune to more than a touch of jingoism.=20
      <P>A companion amendment to the Constitution has been introduced =
in the=20
      Senate by Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), chairman of that body's Judiciary=20
      Committee, and there will be a hearing. Hatch professes to be =
something of=20
      a Constitution scholar, and I wonder how he would respond to a =
1943=20
      Supreme Court decision (West Virginia State Board of Education v.=20
      Barnette) written by Justice Robert Jackson. That indignant board =
of=20
      education had expelled the children of Jehovah's Witnesses because =
they=20
      would not pledge allegiance to the flag. Their refusal was based =
on God's=20
      command in the Old Testament not to serve a "graven image." =
Moreover,=20
      parents of these truants were subject to imprisonment for child =
neglect.=20
      <P>Said Justice Jackson: "If there is any fixed star in our =
constitutional=20
      constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can =
prescribe what=20
      shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other =
matters of=20
      opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith =
therein."=20

      <P>In 1996, another war veteran tried to bring congressional flag =
wavers=20
      in line with the Bill of Rights. Don Bennion wrote in a Salt Lake =
Tribune=20
      (Utah) op-ed article:=20
      <P>"I'm a war veteran (four years in the Marines and a supervisor =
of the=20
      battle for Iwo Jima) and I love my country. But I believe that =
this idea=20
      of passing a constitutional amendment to forbid the desecration of =
our=20
      flag is a dumb idea. Is the purpose to force people to be =
patriotic by=20
      passing a law? Why try to take away a freedom of expression? Is it =
a means=20
      for pandering for votes from veterans organizations?"=20
      <P>If that isn't the reason for this betrayal of the First =
Amendment,=20
      congressional supporters of the Cunningham-Hatch subversion of the =
right=20
      from which all other liberties flow obviously need a remedial =
course in=20
      why the American Revolution was fought. <!--Text end--><BR =
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