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.
It works as a provocation because flag-burning has a warm and special place in US cultural history. It does not serve as quite the same flash point elsewhere, and anyway, when non-Americans gather to burn a flag, it is often the American one they burn. Thereâs just something very flammable about that flag.