Certainly would be frowned upon in Thailand, I was advised not to even ask for King sized cigarettes on my virgin trip. Defacing an American bill is a crime in the USA, but burning an American flag is not. Pretzel logic?

Other countries do this lol. I wonder if they have destroyed their American oil pipelines and Boeing planes too?

Anthony's Weiner wrote: ↑Thu Feb 21, 2019 9:18 am Certainly would be frowned upon in Thailand, I was advised not to even ask for King sized cigarettes on my virgin trip. Defacing an American bill is a crime in the USA, but burning an American flag is not. Pretzel logic?

You make some good points. Also never, ever ask for a king size bed in a Thai hotel, guest house, or bungalo in Thailand!

newkidontheblock wrote: ↑Sun Feb 24, 2019 1:08 pm

Anthony's Weiner wrote:Certainly would be frowned upon in Thailand, I was advised not to even ask for King sized cigarettes on my virgin trip. Defacing an American bill is a crime in the USA, but burning an American flag is not. Pretzel logic?

No pretzel logic. Burning an American flag used to be a crime in the USA, too. But then some snowflakes burned the flag and then challenged it all the way up to the Supreme Court and won. (Former) Lead attorney for the ACLU is a Supreme Court Justice.

My understanding is that US currency as all others is owned by the issuing government and it's destruction ( on a widescale basis could harm the economy. . It is merely a promise of payment backed by the U.S. Government. It is, therefore, U.S. government property, and it is not your right to destroy it.

According to title 18, section 333,

“Whoever mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking association, or Federal Reserve bank, or the Federal Reserve System, with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both”

But burning an American flag is legal and protected by the First Amendment. The Supreme Court invalidated laws that prohibited flag burning in Texas v Johnson. The decision was made in a 5-4 split regardless of what the ACLU involvement and Mr Johnson was a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party of the USA.