A visit to Mme Guilotine non?

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Anyone any idea if there is an equivalent law in the UK?


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8636331.st...

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MX7 said:

I don't think so, fortunately. Do we want to get that precious over a flag?

Not sure. One side of the noggin says it's disrespectful to the nation and its peoples etc, the other side says it just a scrap of material so, so what?

The CESM's have always had a very precious sense of national identity and I can understand why it would bother them more.

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MX7 said:

drivin_me_nuts said:

Not sure. One side of the noggin says it's disrespectful to the nation and its peoples etc, the other side says it just a scrap of material so, so what?

The CESM's have always had a very precious sense of national identity and I can understand why it would bother them more.

So should we have laws against things that are disrespectful? I realise that there are limits, but flag burning seems to be a fairly harmless past time that only fanatics would get offended about.

I'd fear the legislation that introduced flag burning as an offence much more than some fools who think they are making some dramatic statement.

Indeed.