Patriots: the current movement to outlaw flag burning, as well-intentioned and relevant to current affairs as it is (such as our President’s War on Terrorism), sadly does not go far enough.

Old Glory should really be saved from the crass packaging material and TV graphics that litter homes and highways across this great land. The flag is continually and outrageously exploited to promote crummy breakfast cereal, broadcast news, sporting events, and Japanese-made cars. Someone even told me they saw the flag plastered all over the box that a pornographic video came in and it was homosexual pornography at that!

Consider the US Postal stamp. While deluded moderates in Congress push for an outright ban on flag burning, millions fetal-sized flag stamps are literally trashed and likely burned everyday with the assist of a quasi-government agency: The US Postal Service.

Take the American flag of all postage stamps now! Flag stamps have created a quiet, unseen epidemic of flag desecration for years, that most Americans are party to but unaware of it. Until now.

Go to your dumpsters, patriots, your recycling centers, and look at your TV sets. See how Old Glory continues to be co-opted by Wheaties, FOX News, pro wrestling, and Toyota. Our national symbol is being used as a sick device to steer us to “patriotic” purchases, and then discarded along with the bubble wrap and packaging peanuts once vile merchants get our cash. It must stop now! Or at least in time for the 4th of July holiday.

Banning flag-exploitation in American advertising: now that’s a cause I’d hitch my star-spangled wagon to.