7 All patients had negative serum tests for infectious, metabolic, autoimmune, or hereditary liver disease; no history of alcohol or hepatotoxic drug use; and no signs of chronic liver disease.
In 1968, Congress approved the Federal Flag Desecration Law after a Vietnam War protest. The law made it illegal to âknowinglyâ cast âcontemptâ upon âany flag of the United States by publicly mutilating, defacing, defiling, burning or trampling upon it.â.
Flag burning is a form of protest, in the same class as a boycott or the hissing of a speaker. It is not itself speech, but a symbol, just like the flag itself is a symbol. Flag burning is not a nuanced form of expression, providing different messages, but a one-message act of protest.