Gene Policinski: Opposing flag-burning with violence trashes freedom

  What part of patriotism makes it okay to trash one of our nation’s most-treasured rights, free speech?

  A graduate student and part-time instructor at Louisiana State University, Benjamin Haas, tried yesterday to stage a protest that he initially said would involve burning an American flag.  Haas said he was protesting the arrest last week of another student for stealing and burning a U.S. flag from the LSU War Memorial.