According to TheBostonChannel.com, police in Natick, Massachusetts, discovered a number of small American flags burning in a trash cans around the town square late Thursday afternoon. Bob White, one of the area veterans who placed the flags in the Natick park, said, “We decorate this park every Memorial Day. We have never had anything like this happen.”
Whether the flag burning was politically motivated or not is not known since there are no suspects to put the question to. But local veterans, sensitive to the possible political nature of flag burning, were careful to lay the foundation for a future prosecution. Veteran John MacGillivray told a reporter, “I am aware that people have a right to protest, but they don’t have a right to take property that doesn’t belong to them and that’s here to honor the veterans. It is a disgrace.”
MacGillivray has inadvertently hit on one of the core issues in the flag burning debate. When do any of the dregs of society (i.e. delinquents and/or Leftists) who burn American flags, regardless of motivation, ever actually buy the flags themselves?