Posted on 12/16/2020 1:14:16 PM PST by Red Badger
New York’s authoritarian Governor Andrew Cuomo is said to be on Biden’s handlers’ shortlist for attorney general. To get an idea of what this would mean for the cause of keeping American liberty alive, consider that Cuomo just signed a bill into law that makes the Confederate flag illegal.
The Rebel Flag symbolizes the South. That’s why it was featured on the cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd albums and on the car driven by the Dukes of Hazard.
Liberals associate Southern culture with resistance to their agenda; therefore, the Confederate flag is now regarded as a “hate symbol.” It’s a Culture War issue.
From the New York Post:
The new law — effective immediately — prohibits the sale of hate symbols on public grounds including state and local fairs, and also severely limits their display unless deemed relevant to serving an educational or historical purpose.
Cuomo explicitly named the Confederate flag as his first example of a hate symbol, denouncing it as “abhorrent.”
A hate symbol is in effect any symbol that leftists hate. Old Glory herself might become a hate symbol, or at the very least the Betsy Ross version.
A more brazen violation of the spirit of the First Amendment would be difficult to imagine.
Cuomo said the rule likely needs “certain technical changes” so the Empire State doesn’t get caught treading upon free speech protections codified in the Constitution’s First Amendment.
Actually, what it needs is to be thrown out — or rather, any politician who would support such a law needs to be thrown out.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Dumbass.
What do you expect from the King!
Andrew Cuomo is a hate symbol.
> prohibits the sale of hate symbols on public grounds
It’s ok because public ground is a private company... wait a second...
Damn. I live in NY and I think I still have my Lynard Skynard Stars and Bars belt-buckle from when I was 12
Time to go into hiding from Obergruppenführer Cuomo
Is the swastika or KKK flag illegal?
He must be bored - did he run out of small businesses to crush?
Apparently the law-abiding aren't fleeing NYS fast enough for him.
BTW, I know it's an FNC link, but for some strange reason there aren't a lot of stories on this in the enemedia.
That’s right. Keep pushing us. Dark times ahead.
Cuomo needs to be criminalized, charged with murdering 10’s of thousands of seniors, removed from office and be shown the gallows.
Isn’t that a violation of freedom of speech? Seems unconstitutional to me.
Dunc Wilson, New York Rangers 1975.
More slaves suffered under the Communist Chinese flag than under the Confederate flag. I wonder if the Chinese flag is a “hate” symbol???
How can any flag be illegal?
He’ll criminalize the bible next- because God condemns homosexuality
Constitution be damned...
Hope our Florida Governor is able to designate the phrase “The Empire State” as hate speech.
I mean, those empires like the Spanish and British Empires colonized all over the world - and slave traded like gangbusters!
So anything with Empire on it greatly GREATLY offends me. No more damn Nooo Yawkas talking funny and clogging up our roads. Thank GOD!
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