I couldn’t find anything else on the Rick Monday flag incident. I thought about what you had said and tried to think about why this guy didn’t burn something else if he wasn’t trying to make a political statement about the USA. The only thing I could come up with is that people in distress don’t always act rationally. I just don’t see why he would commit such an extreme act and then not deliver some type of political statement about it if that were his intention. Also, I would imagine that the police would have commented in some way if they didn’t find his story credible (as insane as it all sounds). Again, I have no way of verifying that this was the truth. But if this guy were truly a political animal, considering the infamy of this act, I would think he would have been heard from again. But who knows? Your post got me thinking. Best, ML (Sorry. I left this post on a different thread before I saw this. I also agree with protecting the 1st Amendment when it comes to otherwise offensive speech.)