Battle flag at center of Supreme Court free speech case

Fox News ^ | 3/23/15 | Associated Press

[ek_hornbeck]

exas commemorates the Confederacy in many ways, from an annual celebration of Confederate Heroes Day each January to monuments on the grounds of the state Capitol in Austin. Among the memorials is one that has stood for more than a century, bearing an image of the Confederate battle flag etched in marble.

But you're out of luck if you want to put that flag on your license plate. Texas says that would be offensive.

Now the Supreme Court will decide whether the state can refuse to issue a license plate featuring the battle flag without violating the free-speech rights of Texans who want one. The justices hear arguments Monday in a challenge brought by the Texas division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

[ek_hornbeck]

Those Texans that belong to the race of professional victims are exhibiting hypocrisy. The Lone Star Flag of Texas was flown every battle where there were Texans fighting against the Union and for the Confederacy. Should the Lone Star Flag be included because it represented the Confederacy de facto as was the CBF?

Good point, and the answer (according to the race hustlers) is "yes, it should be." In fact, if it were up to them, the American flag would also be outlawed as a symbol of racism, and portraits/monuments/statues of most of the Founding Fathers would be taken down because they either owned slaves or said objectionable things about race by today's PC standards. The Confederate Battle flag is just a convenient immediate target for people whose real agenda is destroying all symbols of America's heritage and western culture in general.

[GIdget2004]

“The Feds un-Constitutionally intruding into States Rights issues again. That is primarily the resentment of those who would display the Confederate Battle Flag.”

If that’s the case, why did this case go to the Supreme Court? The state of Texas banned this license plate, not the feds. The state has spoken, so why are the Sons of the Confederates appealing it all the way to the SCOTUS?

[onedoug]

I can’t help it that they’ve fallen for statist propaganda. They’re the ones who should be asked.

[old gringo]

my grandpa owned about a 2 mile strech of land on this side of the cape fear river that is now i95.the yankees took it for 40 akers and a mule deal.you see where that went.best to ya george