Posted on 08/24/2014 7:12:14 AM PDT by rktman
"No Californian should be exposed to the type of hate or threat of violence caused by the image of the Confederate flag," the bill's author, Assemblyman Isadore Hall III (D-Compton), said in a press release.
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It’s time to start hanging the Stars and Bars and Don’t Tread on Me Flags. We’ve got to do something to show these people we’ve had enough.
“This is why the Democratic Party is absolutely useless when they waste their energy on issues like this.”
It is the classic end game of one party rule. They are doing it because they can.
“Californians are worried about their stagnant state economy, illegal immigration and impending water shortages”
Well then Californians need to wake up and throw these fools out of office. They have no one to blame but themselves, sadly.
I think there are needful biases
And to some degree, biases are unavoidable.
Actions against Natural Law often require counter action.
The meaning of a piece of cloth is assigned by the observer however
And speaks completely to the state of mind of the observer.
Every house hold should fly a CSA flag then maybe they’ll understand what it actually means and do some research.
These people have to keep fighting imaginary foes since they never do anything to help the people that elected them to office.
They also did this important work:
“California Assembly Votes to Change Washington Redskins’ Name”
I agree with you. I just had to say it. I’m not a racist, I’m a culturalist.
We need to design a new sarcasm flag. It should include an image of 0-Bama trying to golf. Perhaps with the confederate flag on his golf bag.
Also, let’s get this straight.
Burning the American flag is free speech, but the display of the confederate flag is unprotected because it’s hateful?
Ok I just love it when liberal logic collides with itself.
After they cram gay marriage down our throats by judicial decree we will watch them squirm to explain why brothers and sisters, brothers and brothers, mothers and daughters, men and lamas, etc. can’t get married.
Just as recently as the early 2000s (when I attended law school), the very suggestion of this type of legislation would have been promptly ridiculed by those across the entire political spectrum.
Freedom from being offended is nowhere in the Constitution (as we all know), while freedom from being denied the right to express such offensive messages is explicitly protected.
I do agree with another poster that this is nothing more than a shameless attempt to get blacks to the polls in November by playing up the race card.
It'll take more than hanging a few flags.
Every where I go to a public event now in California they have these freakin’ Aztec dancers. The Aztecs were a vicious, conquering, slave holding, human sacrifice practicing bunch of Mexican thugs. I find them much more repulsive than any representation of the Confederacy.
BUT, he is on the faculty at Ole Miss, and is damn proud of the Confederate Flag. Go figure.
,This kind of thread always tends to draw out ignorant
California haters who are about as well-informed as those
they criticize. The California bear flag is one of hate? What the
hell is that about?
As to the Confederate flag it is unfairly condemned all over the
country in just about every corner where it is misunderstood.
The gay rights movement has taught us that we do not have
a right to not be offended. If the Confederate flag offends you
because of the history of slavery then too bad. To many of
us (yes, even Californians) it represents states rights, not
slavery.
No hate/dislike on my part for the many conservative Californians who despise the clowns put in office there by the population centers. We have the same issue across the state line in NV. Vegas so far out votes the rest of the state that there is a constant lib/prog/commie/dimokkkrat circus occurring in Carson City whenever the legislature is in session.
The ironic thing is, that slavery existed under Old Glory (the U.S. Stars and Stripes), for a hell of a lot longer than it did under the Stars and Bars of the Confederacy (89 years to less than five years).
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