Just hours after the news broke that Osama bin Laden had been killed, a student at LSU allegedly took the American flag from the campus’s War Memorial and burned it, doing about $7,500 worth of damage. When charged with the crime, another LSU student planned to publicly burn a flag as his way of protesting the decision to charge the other student with a crime. But on the day he had announced, thousands of locals and students showed up shouting him down and throwing water balloons and ice at him, making it impossible. Ironically, he wasn’t even going to burn a flag since he had discovered he needed a city burn permit to do so, so he was only reading a statement. But even that proved too difficult as he had to flee the area. The ice and water balloons are certainly over the top, but the idea that such a large group would show up in protest of his flag-burning to deter him almost makes me proud of Louisiana. Outrageous expression and the threat to engage in it should have social consequences. Accountability is what makes fools think twice before acting.
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