Easy, by reading. Under Title 4 of the United States Code - the.United States Flag Code establishes advisory rules for display and care of the flag of the United States. There are no penalties for failure to follows these 'rules of etiquette ' because to do so would clearly violate the First amendment. Therefore only Gov't agencies are affected by these rules.

An individual on private property can hang a flag upside down and lit on fire, and below the Iranian flag and still no 'law' is violated. Of course, I would never do that because I respect the flag and what it represents. Nonetheless, in spite of media reports to the contrary, no law was broken by the bar owner.

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I think at this point there needs to be a focus on an immediate increase in spending and I think this is a time when deficit fear has to take a second seat . . . I believe later on there should be tax increases. Speaking personally, I think there are a lot of very rich people out there whom we can tax at a point down the road and recover some of the money."
-- Barney Frank, October 20, 2008