Do you realize the logic of your position, that it constitutes a ban on some people's political and First Amendment rights?
That is not my position. The issue was a narrow one involving public display of the confederate Battle Flag on the capitol grounds.
My position was only that it was appropriate abd wise enough for the governor to endorse its removal due to the fact that it legitimately offended a significant percentage of the state citizenry, and that it was the flag of a vanquished military. Thus, the state did not need to be the one exercising its First Amendment rights with respect to it. There are plenty of other private interests that can do that.
So I never endorsed any ban of any kind, and I'm not at all convinced that the state of SC will enact any bans with respect to public display of the Battle Flag. I just think the political will to remove the flag now exists, and there's nothing too earth-shattering about that.
Narrow, shmarrow. Display of the CBF, display of the U.S. National flag, display of Our Miss Brooks or The Outlaw Josey Wales -- it's a principle.
You've given your inveterate, relentless, implacable enemies, guided by Communists, a ban on political and historical displays. The criterion? They don't like it.
They'll shove your reasonableness where the sun doesn't shine. Why? Because you've signaled you can be had.
The people organizing these things are predators. They'll take everything you have.
To the first point, buncombe. I explained above that this is all a put-up job engineered by the NAACP and the New York Times, a bunch of bloody-shirt-waving to spike up the black vote by showing black voters how they can empower black politicians to bullyrag, intimidate, and cow a bunch of gutless white businessmen and RiNO's, and humiliate The Man in a public kabuki theater of racist politics.
I pointed out that where the NAACP had neglected to be active and hateful, in Mississippi, black citizens had no such objections as have been alleged in the Carolinas, to legitimize the damnatio memoriae of the Confederate flag.
Your second point is that the Confederates lost -- so did the American militia, at Bunker Hill and later on Bennington (big time); and yet we still display those flags in their memory. I have both flags, and I'll be flying them in a few days.
Likewise the Alamo flag (yeah, I have one of those -- the real McCoy, Barrett Travis's Texian army pattern garrison flag that Sam Houston gave him). I'll fly that flag, too, and thumb my nose at the smoothly racist Castro brothers and their vitriolic guero-hating mother when I do so. Those people would get control of the Alamo, clean out the museum, and put an equestrian statue of Santa Anna in it. Like hell they will.
So I celebrate defeated armies and causes.
"Godda prollem wid dat?"