Minions of the State, tipped off by some local brownshirts, rush to protect their symbol, while trampling on the rights of Mark and Deborah Kuhn.
Mark and Deborah Kuhn display signs they attached to an American flag flying upside down at their home on Brevard Road.
Let's let the great Murray Rothbard comment on this:
Keeping our eye on property rights, the entire flag question is resolved easily and instantly. Everyone has the right to buy or weave and therefore own a piece of cloth in the shape and design of an American flag (or in any other design) and to do with it what he will: fly it, burn it, defile it, bury it, put it in the closet, wear it, etc. Flag laws are unjustifiable laws in violation of the rights of private property. (Constitutionally, there are many clauses in the Constitution from which private property rights can be derived.)
On the other hand, no one has the right to come up and burn your flag, or someone else's. That should be illegal, not because a flag is being burned, but because the arsonist is burning your property without your permission. He is violating your property rights.
