A playwright fumbles for clarity on the issue of flagburning. These are a few of the characters in a new play fueled by the Internet and inflamed with the rhetoric of hotly argued points of view. Reaction is one of the playwright's goals. The issue of flag burning ignited Sannerud's ire whenever he heard of a constitutional amendment to ban flag burning. There are children being murdered.
People are homeless and dying of diseases.
People are wasting our legislative time. It was like everyone had the right to not be offended. I thought about that. Nobody wants their ideas challenged anymore, but that's part of my business, to look at things in a new way, to hold it up and make you look at it. On the other hand, Sannerud also respected the idea that the flag evokes strong emotions in nearly every American.