Sharron, this is simply not an accurate description of what is happening. Nobody is being threatened with two years in prison simply for flying the Union Flag or St George’s Cross. Fly either flag lawfully in your own garden, from your home, or on private land with the landowner’s permission, and this injunction has nothing to do with you. And since you mention the United States, that is exactly how Americans commonly display their flag, from their homes, porches, gardens and other private property. The issue here is people attaching flags without permission to lampposts and other public highway infrastructure, and then potentially breaching a High Court injunction prohibiting them from doing so. If somebody is ultimately imprisoned, it would be for contempt of court by knowingly breaching a legal injunction, not for displaying the national flag. There is an enormous difference between “you can be jailed for flying an England flag” and “you can be jailed for deliberately defying a High Court order”. Patriotism does not place anybody above the law.