The First Amendment: not always pretty 

Posted: 1:00 am Wed, October 8, 2008
By admin

Prosecutors last week dropped charges against a Winona, Minn., teenager who was ticketed in September for desecrating an American flag.Police had charged the 14-year-old boy after he wrote song lyrics on a flag, burned holes in it, and tore it into several pieces. He then scattered the pieces throughout his high school before skipping class ...