The documentary shows anti-American rallies, flag burnings and defaced billboards; at one point, Pakistanis throw things at the camera crew.
That legislative restraint finally vanished in the 1960's, in response to flag burnings protesting American involvement in the Vietnam War.
He couldn't have meant that flag burnings were numerous or even growing, but that when observed, flag burnings don't excite people so much anymore.
In common usage, the phrase 'flag burning' refers only to burning a flag as an act of protest.
After the flag burnings, the Danish news media began to refer to the white cross on the flag's red background as a Christian symbol.
YOU wonder, too, if the chances are now improved for a constitutional amendment that would permit laws banning flag burnings and other desecrations.
It is a 34-inch by 57-inch flag on the gallery floor beneath photographs that show flag-draped coffins and flag burnings.
History also shows that flag burning has never been epidemic in this country.
Although flag burning has been on the wane since the war protests of the 1960's, supporters of the amendment argue that a single desecrated flag is one too many.
The flag was displayed beneath photographs of flag-draped coffins and flag burnings.