Confederate symbol on flags prompts $21 billion lawsuit

St. Cloud Times ^ | 4 November, 2003 | AP

[stainlessbanner]

A St. Cloud VA Medical Center resident said Monday that he has filed suit against the center, its director, the secretary of veterans affairs and President George W. Bush.

He filed the suit because the VA displayed state flags featuring the Confederate symbol.

[PistolPaknMama]

The mere fact that appellant may on some occasions be required to enter public buildings that fly the Georgia flag does not infringe upon his First Amendment rights.'

There is some PC notion currently running amuk that the First Amendment is your assurance of not being offended. I am offended by 21 year old men wearing their trousers in such a way that I can see 3/4's of their silk underwear. Who have I sued lately? Nobody.

[STONEWALLS]

"Sadly, I have read that there is a group in Atlanta pushing to have the carving at Stone Mountain removed."

.....and they just might win too......it's sad what's happened to that city.......

.....the suit against the VA is interesting.....Minnesota a notoriously liberal state, a state that prides itself on not being prejudiced......this suit ought to open some eyes in the white community.......no matter how liberal Minnesota gets, blacks aren't going to stop......they're going to keep on pushing and pushing and pushing....no matter what whites do, it will never be enough.......there is no satisfying black demands......it will only get worse in the future......"race war is coming, and it's coming fast" Carl Rowen, former syndicated columnist and African American

[PistolPaknMama]

Couldn't we wait until the lawsuit is settled before taking the flags down.

All it takes is one person complaining before the whole system falls. Read David Limbaugh's "Persecution" if you don't believe me. The PC whores are so gun shy of litigation that they will fold at the first hint of controversy. It is a lesson we must take from the left.

[wattsmag2]

In his lawsuit, Coleman said the symbols are equivalent to the Nazi swastika. He said he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, nightmares, eating disorders and other maladies as a result of seeing them.

What is this pussy doing in the VA in the first place.

[wardaddy]

I'm ashamed of most whites. They are beyond soft.

They have become the whimpering school kid cowering from bullies extorting lunch money.

So afraid to be seen as insensitive....or God forbid...the R-word.

[4CJ]

There is some PC notion currently running amuk that the First Amendment is your assurance of not being offended.

It's that liberl educashun.

[stand watie]

YEP!

[BenLurkin]

He filed the suit because the VA displayed state flags featuring the Confederate symbol.

[kcvl]

United States Court of Appeals,

Eleventh Circuit.


No. 96-8149.


James Andrew COLEMAN, Plaintiff-Appellant,


v.


Zell MILLER, Governor, State of Georgia, Defendants-Appellees,


Georgia Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, et al., Proposed Intervenors.


July 21, 1997.


Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. (No. 1:94-cv-1673-ODE), Orinda D. Evans, Judge.


Before ANDERSON, Circuit Judge, and FAY and KRAVITCH, Senior Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:


James Coleman brought this action to enjoin the flying of the Georgia state flag over Georgia's state office buildings. Coleman, an African-American, alleges that the flying of the Georgia flag, which incorporates the Confederate battle flag emblem, violates his constitutional rights to equal protection and freedom of expression. The district court determined that Coleman had failed to produce sufficient evidence to maintain his claims and granted appellees' motion for summary judgment. Because we likewise conclude that the record contains inadequate factual support for appellant's constitutional claims, we affirm.





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[Gianni]

Well I suffer from the same when I see a penny, ...

It only seems proper to sue for recuperation of all the fivers I've had to run through the shredder, just so's I could sleep better at night.

[Analyzing Inconsistencies]

I recently read that the only city in the USA that had more slaves than New York City in the 1830's was Charleston. As if the Northern Aggression in the 1860's was really to liberate the slaves.