I guess that the Mexican flag gets more protection than the American flag some places here in the formerly United States.

It caused some controversy, but it was supposed to. Now, one man is headed to municipal court for burning a Mexican flag in protest in front of the Alamo.

The city is charging 46-year old David Bohmfalk with burning without a permit, even though no one gives permits to burn a flag.

"I was raised to respect my country," Bohmfalk said.

All the rallies and talk of amnesty for undocumented immigrants in May 2006 lit the fires of patriotism for Bohmfalk, he said.

"I just got angry," he said. "I decided I had to do something, make my statement, and that's what I did."

Of course, since flag burning is protected speech, it seems difficult to call what Bohmfalk did a crime. Not, of course, that the San Antonio cops were arresting people for actual crimes that day. Besides letting illegal aliens walk free, they also ignored crimes against the person of Mr. Bohmfalk committed in their presence.

Bohmfalk says while he was detained by police, he was harassed, his life was threatened, and he was even assaulted by some tourists who spit on him. Ironically, all these offenses are punishable by law.

So much for equal protection of the law, hat he harassed any of the demonstrators, threatened them with death, and spit upon them, he would no doubt have been hauled away in cuffs and charged with hate crimes. I guess it wouldn’t do to offend the immigration criminals and their supporters, though, so no arrests were made in the case of the crimes cited above.

Besides, it seems to me that burning a Mexican flag in front of the Alamo seems particularly appropriate. After all, the Mexicans burned the bodies of the Alamo martyrs.

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