Gary Ackerman probably didn’t intend this statement to come out the way it did:

“The reason our flag is different is because it stands for burning the flag,” Representative Gary L. Ackerman, Democrat of New York, said in a speech on the House floor, wearing a flag-print necktie. “The Constitution this week is being nibbled to death by small men with press secretaries.”

Congressman, the flag doesn’t stand for burning the flag. It stands for the right to free expression. There’s a difference.