I have absolutely no problem with hippies burning the flag. If hippies have touched out flag, then it has been desecrated and "should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably burning." The flag of our nation represents our nation's ideal and if the one who possesses it doesn’t believe in that ideal then it is transformed into a meaningless cloth that has lost it's spirit and is therefore soiled and should be destroyed.
I am not, however, okay with the Gov't seizing private property in order to prevent it's potential misuse. I think a better law would be to make it illegal to import or export a United States Flag for commercial sale. That would mean that all flags in the US would need to be produced in the US and that the prices would go up accordingly. Especially if we tacked on standards of production quality, like saying they can't be printed, all parts must be sewn together, etc. I bet you would see a dramatic decrease in the number of Flag burnings if the cheapest one you could get cost $50. Not to mention, if you saw some dirty Arabs on TV burning a flag you could simply say "That's not a real one. It was probably printed on a machine in China or Pakistan. It's like burning a cheap, generic T-shirt." If it wasn't made by and American, and it doesn't represent American Ideals, it is meaningless and it's destruction is not only acceptable, it's a necessity.

I believe Congress would be better served by passing a law which allowed citizens to take any and all actions to prevent desecration of the flag, without any legal penalty. So, when the dirty hippy or pig fucking raghead cocksucker (dont like them much) was caught burning a flag, you could beat the shit out of them with a baseball bat, boil them in oil, feed them halfway through a tree shredder, and then make the remains dance the hemp fandango - and that would be perfectly OK.
Works for me.

Just wanted to let you know that I detected the sarcasm and the irony.