[ek_hornbeck]

If the state wants to ban a Confederate vanity plate on the grounds that if offends somebody, fine, there's nothing that says that the state has to subsidize your free speech. But let it do so consistently and require that any and all political messages be removed from plates, because everything out there is likely to "offend" somebody in today's hypersensitive victim culture. Otherwise, it's just cherry picking which groups "deserve" not to be offended.

[Ouderkirk]

Fly the Bonnie Blue instead.

[servantboy777]

Your correct. For every issue, there is someone pro/con.

I am a member of Sons of Confederate Veterans. Two GG Grandfathers fought for the South and I happen to be pretty proud of my Southern heritage.

Liberals have guilted mamby pamby white guys into being ashamed of their heritage. We see liberal attempts to re-write history, dumb down the importance of the constitution and so on.

The myth that that battle flag represents hate/slavery is just shear poppycock. That flag stands for states rights, for Southern independence from an overbearing federal behemoth.

http://scvtexas.org/

[V_TWIN]

I can hear it now, “Senator Cruz, where do you fall on the issue of banning the Confederate vanity plates?”

The perfect racial gotcha question.

[kenmcg]

The license plate of a vehicle should be that, showing that the vehicle is duly registered in the state. To have team names, flowers, birds etc. or political slogans on same is opening a Pandora’s box, to anything and everything.

[lakecumberlandvet]

Maybe we could just pretend that the Confederate States of America never existed, that the War Between the States never occurred and that the Confederate Flag never flew. Or maybe we could just quit pretending that symbols really offend anyone. We could just as easily act like black robes are offensive. Nine “justices” in black robes have, in fact, done lots of offensive things.

[vetvetdoug]

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?

[onedoug]

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

Long may she wave.