[Jeff Higgins]

It still has to go to the states for ratification, assuming the Senate passes it. In the years it would take to work its way through all of that I think it will simply lose momentum. Everybody is in a patriotic uproar now, but the normal state of general apathy will soon settle back in. Besides, the kind of folks that have to resort to this form of expression to be heard usually have ideas that are so far out there that most of us don't listen to them anyway. They have no affect on what the flag represents; that is why they resort to burning it in the first place. They are simply in it for the attention. If we just ignore them the novelty and notoriety of their currently fashionable form of expression gets pretty boring for them, and they find something else. Passing laws to try to make them stop is inneffective, and we will never stay ahead of their next form of "expression" anyway.