I’m starting a movement to pressure legislative bodies to pass laws making it illegal to burn copies of flag-burning laws. SAF-BUL (“Save All Flag-Burning Laws”). Who’s in?
Dale
Tom
I just wish that they would make a law to print them on a Charmin soft material so that I could “recycle” them.
Another misguided adventure! Why do you want to create a special status for flag burning laws? Why shouldn’t all laws, passed and unpassed, smart and silly have the right to be protected for all time in their original hard-copy condition? In fact, as we move toward a wholesome strict constructionist future shouldn’t all laws (and ideas fior laws) be protected by only allowing them to be written on the stretched, dried skin of a dead animal. The obvious source of all problems of the modern era is that we’re conveying our laws to the people in ways that the founders never imagined - digitized electronic impulses! I think Jefferson would be with you. Did he ever throw anything away?
Possibly a birth certificate or two- they may have been burned.
Tom
I just want a law banning sunburn.
A more pragmatic approach might be to make Congress meet only every other year, like some state legislatures. Might slow down the knee-jerk thing in many issues…
For some strange reason, this whole discussion reminds me of the movie Demolition Man
I second the proposal for a law banning sunburn.
If it’s criminal to have copies of laws, then only criminals will have laws.
I’m guessing part-time legislators wouldn’t help from either of our prespectives. Twenty yrs. or so ago I did some work in NC that their part-time legislature considered. They had a typical long session one year and and short session in the alternate year. I dealt with a legislative staff guy whose responsibility was “D - E - F”. They assiged the work alphabetically. He was the only staff resource for Education, Environment and anything else in “D - E - F”. Nice guy, very bright but no time for any depth on any issue. Part-time legislatures will get you “knee-jerk” laws because they’re understaffed and too busy making a living. God bless them for the commitment because they don’t get paid much. Aside from the lawyers and insurance brokers (both groups usually over-represented) being a part-time state rep does little to help put the kids through school.
“I’m guessing part-time legislators wouldn’t help from either of our prespectives”
Considering how many legislators spend so much time running for re-election, or another office, I think a lot of them are part-time right now!
I just want a law banning sunburn.
When I was in the Air Force, it was illegal to get a sunburn and miss work because of it. There was no sunscreen back in those days, either. I stayed up really late at a beach one night and slept on in a sleeping bag outside past sunup. I was lying on my side and got a one-sided sunburn on my face. I went to work with it, so I didn’t get fined.
Tony
In consideration of the various uprisings and flames which have sullied the spirit of the pipes forum this year, I’d like to propose a law which would head off bag-learning flaws.
As long as it’s not bag-burning!
Don’t burn your bag, recycle! 
Making burning flag laws illegal wouldn’t work. What if the some extremists daubed the Anti-Flag burning laws on a flag. Wouldn’t this just give more meaning to the cause of flag burners and thus generate a whole new band of extremists? I think you’re just playing into their hands Dale. :roll: Just pass a law forcing all flag producers to use only flame retardant materials and voila your flag is safe
Pardon the pun but brominated flame retardants are one of the hottest topics in environmental toxics. They are used liberally in consumer products, save lives, and are emerging as a very worrysome contaminate. I grabbed this off the web. Lots of uncertainty but very disturbing. Five years ago no one was looking at thia group of chemicals. Late 1990s studies in Sweeden and San Francisco turned up startingly high levels of BFRs in breast milk.
Executive Summary
In the first nationwide tests for brominated fire retardants in house dust, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) found unexpectedly high levels of these neurotoxic chemicals in every home sampled. The average level of brominated fire retardants measured in dust from nine homes was more than 4,600 parts per billion (ppb). A tenth sample, collected in a home where products with fire retardants were recently removed, contained more than 41,000 ppb of brominated fire retardants — twice as high as the maximum level previously reported by any dust study worldwide.
Like PCBs, their long-banned chemical relatives, the brominated fire retardants known as PBDEs (polybrominated diphenyl ethers) are persistent in the environment and bioaccumulative, building up in people’s bodies over a lifetime. In minute doses they and other brominated fire retardants impair attention, learning, memory and behavior in laboratory animals.
EWG’s test results indicate that consumer products, not industrial releases, are the most likely sources of the rapid buildup of PBDEs in people, animals and the environment, which has been documented by tests from Europe to the Arctic. Scientists now recognize that indoor environmental contamination, including contaminants accumulating in household dust, pose a substantial health risk to the population. Our findings raise concerns that children may ingest significant amounts of toxic fire retardants via dust, and indicate that the impending federal phase-out of two PBDEs doesn’t go far enough to protect Americans.
We had a group from down South come up to burn our flag when the same-sex debate was raging. A Mountie had to help them do it, just to make sure they did it safely.
Either way, it becomes a Left/Right issue.