Yes, Americans are pround of it.

Regarding some disputing example in your post, I can mention similar thing too. For example, in any US airport you can not in any way say or hint that you have bomb. You would be subdued if you say so. It does not voilate your 1st amendment right, however.

You extended the concept of free speech and press to the extreme. Please read the 1st Amendment in legal sense.

Democracy and freedom has other thing that are often forgotten by people. That is law and order. The "law" are the rules set and agreed upon through democratic process participated by concerned people. If majority of Americans think burning flag should be legislated as illegal, Congress will honor the will and make such law. It does not voilate people's 1st Amendement right.

So the key thing here is Amercian people. It is they who will decide important thing like this. The way they do it is through their democratic process like periodic elections of official to executive and legisture

Democracy, Freedom and rights and a lot of things have been widely known American greatest contribution to world civilization. It has boomed in almost every corner of the world since WWII. You will be surprised how many countries constitutions quote from American Constitution,including Chinese.

If China would like to replace USA in next centrury, they must come up with something better than what USA offered to the world in 20th century, not just GDP. I do not know what China can offer now. I know for sure that "3 represents" is not working for sure. They need something better, much better.

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• Please read this, regard election and democracy -金笔- ♂ (1648 bytes) () 01/02/2006 postreply 04:13:10

• 政治上没有完好，但有更好。只有骗子和痞子认为中国 -亚..生..公- ♂ (95 bytes) () 01/02/2006 postreply 09:28:58

• 您太看低中国了，再说中国进步的速度也不是您想像的那么慢~ -金笔- ♂ (0 bytes) () 01/02/2006 postreply 11:18:50

• 鄙人不是看低中国，是看低中共！中共的进步是毛独裁统治 -亚..生..公- ♂ (141 bytes) () 01/02/2006 postreply 11:31:41

• 民意对布什总统发生作用吗？呵呵 -金笔- ♂ (0 bytes) () 01/02/2006 postreply 11:44:21

• 转移话题。民意对布什总统发生作用吗？多数美国人 -亚..生..公- ♂ (172 bytes) () 01/02/2006 postreply 12:05:56

• 都是烂的，有什么好选！ -71181- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/02/2006 postreply 14:01:48

• 没有转移话题啊，因为你前面说中共寡头政治，才引来布什的话题 -金笔- ♂ (55 bytes) () 01/02/2006 postreply 14:04:23

• 没有共产党就没有新中国，不论共产党现在有多少缺点 -酒- ♀ (196 bytes) () 01/02/2006 postreply 20:27:14

• 回复：你太夸张了吧！！！你是国民党吧！！！胜者为王败者为寇 -酒- ♀ (101 bytes) () 01/02/2006 postreply 20:33:40

• The lobyying in US congress is allowed -6862- ♀ (1509 bytes) () 01/02/2006 postreply 10:39:47

• 回复：The lobyying in US congress is allowed -金笔- ♂ (210 bytes) () 01/02/2006 postreply 11:15:02

• lobby是个dilemma，不可能禁止lobby，lobby不能没有regulation -694- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/06/2006 postreply 22:04:26