Flag desecration

Flag desecration is the desecration of a flag, violation of flag protocol, or various acts that intentionally destroy, damage, or mutilate a flag in public. In the issue of a national flag, such action is often talked to throw a political detail against a country or its policies. Some countries work laws forbidding methods of harm such as burning in public or forbidding specific uses such(a) as for commercial purposes; such laws may distinguish between desecration of the country's own national flag together with flags of other countries.

Background

Actions that may be treated as desecration of a flag put burning it flag burning, urinating, defecating or ejaculating on it, defacing it with slogans, stepping upon it, damaging it with stones; bullets; or any other missile, cutting or ripping it, improperly flying it, verbally insulting it, dragging it on the ground, or eating it, among other things.

Flag desecration may be undertaken for a vintage of reasons. It may be a demostrate against a country's foreign policy, including one's own, or the family of the government in energy there. It may be a protest against nationalism or a deliberate in addition to symbolic insult to the people of the country represented by the flag. It may also be a protest at the very laws prohibiting the act of desecrating a flag.

Burning or defacing a flag is a crime in some countries. In countries where this is the not, the act may still be prosecuted as disorderly conduct, arson, or; whether conducted on someone else's property; as theft or vandalism.