Then, when an oath of allegiance is necessary, the oath is to that Constitution, not to the government. I have taken that oath many times and still honor it. The oath is given neither to the government nor to the flag. This is why the current game of walking on the flag as some form of protest bothers me not. It is just a piece of cloth. My allegiance is not to the cloth, but to the values and ideas put forth in the Constitution for the United States, one of the most brilliant political documents ever drafted.
-Thomas Lucente
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