The Michael Higbie Amendment

Today the Senate is poised to vote on a Federal Amendment to ban desecration of the American flag. It is an oh so important amendment to our hallowed Constitution for in the last year alone there has been three US flags desecrated. From the Columbus Dispatch:

The pro-amendment Citizens’ Flag Alliance lists three instances of flag desecration this year, including one involving a drunk [Michael Higbie] who tore two small flags from a sailor’s monument in West Haven, Conn.

Yes, we must stop Higbie, a one man flag wrecking machine and apparent racist who alone is responsible for two-thirds of all flag desecrations in this country.

There is something to be said of a country that put idolatry over citizenry, or in this case just one citizen, and it's not very pleasant.