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You can get some fairly high powered lasers commercially, might have some OK results burning flags with one of those? Would have to be a pretty non-windy day though. Do take care though not to be shining it in a way that it could pass through the flag and hit, for example, the eyes of a pilot in a far off plane. As @despoticruin@lemm.ee says, a laser should be treated with respect the same as any other weapon, makeshift or not.
While this could work, please don't go firing a laser powerful enough to set shit on fire randomly into the air. It's like firing a gun, that laser will fuck up whatever it hits and you don't know what's behind that flag. Easy way to kill a plane full of people by instantly and permanently blinding both pilots. I would look into artillery calculations and water balloons filled with bleach. Pretty easy to hit a stationary target with a pi handling trajectory calculations. Paintballs might be another option, bright pink.
Absolutely. I'll edit my original comment to mention the dangers.