Congratulations. Your editorial, “The flag of freedom” (BDN, May 29), was a gem and said it perfectly. That Rep. John Baldacci could support such a jingoistic attack on the First Amendment is a great disappointment.

While flag burning is odious, repression of even odious behavior such as that, is, as you say, the price that must be paid to ensure true freedom of expression continues to be constitutionally guaranteed. Baldacci should withdraw his sponsorship of that amendment and remember who voted for him and why. Marc V. Schnur Islesboro