Flag Burning Redux

I'm lost. I admit it. I have no idea what would motivate someone to commit such an evil act:

http://www.newsnet5.com/news/4762822/detail.html

Flags Memorializing Fallen Soldier Burned
Local Church Donates New
Flags
POSTED: 9:17 am EDT July 24, 2005
UPDATED: 1:34 pm EDT July 24,
2005
FAIRFIELD, Ohio -- Less than 24 hours after an Ohio soldier was buried, someone pulled up 20 American flags from his father-in-law's front yard and set fire to them under a car in the driveway, according to WLWT-TV in Cincinnati.

And you know, it gets worse:

Hines, 21, of Fairfield, died last week of injuries from a bomb explosion in Baghdad in June.

More than 400 family members and friends gathered for his funeral Friday. They watched a slideshow of his life from childhood to high school to his wedding.

Hines met his wife, Katy, at Cincinnati Christian School. They had a 2-year-old daughter, Lily, and Katy expects to give birth to their second child in about two weeks.

OK, if this is some kind of act of protest - sick, my friends. Sick. Disturbed, wrong, freaking evil. I'm not going to jump up and accuse "the Left" of doing this. No decent person from the political Left or Right would do such a thing. If I believed that, I'd really have to move to Idaho or Montana and find myself a nice tarpaper shack.

If it is random violence - still sick. What kind of walking freakshow would do something like this? Hasn't this family paid enough?

No, it has not changed my position on the need for an anti-flag-burning amendment to the US Constitution - we don't need one, and we don't want one. Flag burning is protected free speech. BUT BURN YOUR OWN DAMNED FLAG.

If I saw someone doing this, I'm not sure I could stop myself from committing an atrocity on their person. But I'd be horse-whipping them for being such an evil monster, not for burning the damned flag. The hell with the flag - this isn't about the flag (but the news accounts will make it seem that way). This is about intentional and unacceptable pain being inflicted on a family that doesn't deserve it.

I feel sick. Somebody make it stop.

Hang In There,

Wiggy