Is it normal to engage in flag-burning every 4th of july?

Can you elaborate?

P.S. there's a sales tax on those flags and matches that I buy - you're welcome.

Assaulting a person is a violation of that person's rights. You may disapprove of my actions through the freedoms granted to you, but the use of violence to silence someone else is hardly any different from the kind of activity one would witness in, say, an authoritarian country. So I can only use the freedoms the way apes like you approve, but if I use them any other way, I should be violently silenced? FREEDUM...

"That's actually a big problem with this country..."

I suppose you'd support the Alien and Seditions act of 1798, jailing those that oppose or criticize the activities of the U.S. government because they'd be "hiding behind the 'freedom' doctrine" or that you'd have supported the effort to execute and jail people who opposed America's involvement in WWI, or that you think I should be hauled off to Guantanamo under the Patriot Act?

Very well,

An abridgment of my beliefs (call it Anon's Manifesto):

1. The water in this country is fluoridated beyond acceptable levels, and our government has not taken sufficient measures to ensure both the nutritional value and tastiness of our water supply. In a country more reflective of the needs of the people, the water would not only possess a minimal level of fluoride, but would be filled simultaneously with Kool Aid, to encourage the populace to consume more of it. The need for Kool Aid in the water supply would create meaningful work for those whose jobs it would be to ensure the degree of Kool Aid in the water supply never drops below an acceptable level, and we can mass produce Kool Aid in such measures that it would provide further work to the masses, provided that they have no objections to the flavors produced. The flavors used would be determined through democratic processes, of course, and unions and special interest groups can be established to ensure that no flavor is underrepresented. Showering will not be a problem, as the Kool Aid will mask any otherwise irreconcilable stenches. All shall smell of the sweet scent of Kool Aid!

2. A popular party through which the voice of the downtrodden might be heard has become so necessary, yet so unheard-of in this country and abroad that it defies all comprehension as to how the world might have lasted so long without it. A "People's Popular and Pungent Party of the Homeless and Otherwise Dispossessed," has become desperately needed in this country, and once it has established its roots firmly within American soil, it should seek to connect with other hobos, gypsies, under-bridgers and alley-pissers across the globe to form an international coalition of the homeless. Vagabonds of the world, unite!!!

3. The hunger and starvation of children is something which we can no longer afford to ignore. We have tried free lunches, welfare programs, whatever have you, to fill the guts of these children with nutritious sustenance, and yet, they still go hungry and thin, and float upon the breeze like kites. What, you ask, is my solution? Simply put, that the learning materials in schools should be edible. Pencils should be made from pretzel-sticks, writings should be undertaken upon waffles, and a child should be graded not only by the knowledge he has digested, but also by the materials he has digested, and the fullness of his belly (and let us not forget, the water fountains must dispense Kool Aid!). For once in our nation's history, "The dog ate my homework," should be a believable statement.

4. It has long been noted that the children are our future. They have been heralded as the leaders of tomorrow, tomorrow's workers, tomorrow's tax-payers, tomorrow's homeless. This is a grand misconception, as any modern school-teacher will have you know. Children are the masters of their teachers' fates; everything from the teachers' salaries to their ability to keep their jobs is determined by the performance of the children on standardized tests. This, it might be reckoned, is a powerful form of checking and displacing corrupt authority, the more intelligent reader may notice, and should be extended to all forms of authority in society. Politicians should have their performances in society graded by children on standardized tests, and everything from their salaries to their abilities to hold office should be depended on the average score of your average child. I say, "leaders of tomorrow! HAH! Let them lead us today!"