Could also be viewed as hateful and divisive...
Posted on 06/23/2015 8:16:14 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Virginia will begin the process to remove the Confederate flag from state-issued license plates, Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced Tuesday, calling the emblem divisive and hurtful.
McAuliffe said that a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling allows states to decide which emblems to allow or not allow on license plates. He said that the decision supersedes previous federal court rulings that required Virginia to issue Sons of the Confederate Veterans plates that include the iconic image of the red flag with a blue X.
His announcement comes a day after South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley called for the removal of the Confederate flag from the grounds of the state’s capitol in Columbia.
“As Gov. Haley said yesterday, her state can ill afford to let this symbol continue to divide the people of South Carolina. I believe the same is true here in Virginia,” McAuliffe said in a statement. “Even its display on state issued license tags is, in my view, unnecessarily divisive and hurtful to too many of our people. ”
Virginia does not fly the flag of the former confederacy at its state capitol in Richmond, once the capital of the South. But in 1999, the General Assembly allowed the specialty license plates for the Sons of the Confederate Veterans. Although the legislation attempted to preclude the flag from being displayed on these plates, court rulings forced the state to allow a depiction of the banner.
McAuliffe says that he’s directed state transportation officials to devise a plan to replace these plates “as quickly as possible.”
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Texas’ refusal to issue a license plate displaying the flag and rejected a free-speech challenge. The court found that Texas can limit the content of plates because they are state property.
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Well the Left finally got their perfect Poster Child.
One stupid A##hole and they pounce.
People who want to keep it should force a vote on the ballot.
Reichstag Boy got his way.
“People who want to keep it should force a vote on the ballot.”
The Supreme Court just said last week that the state has the right to control what is on the license plates.
It’s a Democrat flag. Let them own it.
“...unnecessarily divisive and hurtful to too many of our people.”
I was unaware of the state’s mandate to prevent divisive and hurtful speech.
There’s a black guy in our town who likes to dress up in a confederate uniform and march back and fourth across the interstate crossing carrying a large confederate flag. I wonder how much harassment he gets.
People of the South, the Left is going to hang this albatross around your necks.
I know it’s not right and my experience has been that most Southerners are polite and tolerant towards others. As well, I’ve seen more hate and intolerance here in the Northeast.
But this crazy redneck, shooting up that church, has done irreparable damage to the image of Southerners, who are mostly good people, and that’s a shame.
That’s a political non-starter. Those who feel passionately about the issue (for the flag on the license plates) are a much smaller number that those who might feel alienated by the issue, although they are less passionate on it. What politician would want to align himself with such a calculus?
Behold the power of this fully operational Media Death Star.
MrCO family from the south. They are highly upset at this.
Sure. But it doesn't have the power to allow some, and forbid others. That is a 14th amendment violation of equal protection/application of the law.
Well the people did elect him.
No it is obvious that burning the Parliament is very serious--as is murdering nine innocent civilians at a Church Bible study. But the space cadet in Charleston, is no more a rational spokesman for anything than was the Communist dupe in Berlin in 1933. That American politicians feel the need to ape the German panic to attack liberty & freedom of expression, in this manner, may tell us more of the future than any loyal American even wants to imagine.
Taking the Confederate flag off license plates is one thing and is within the purview of state authority... however here in Virginia we have a plethora of Civil War reenactments. If Clinton’s bagman Fast Terry tries to ban the Stars and Bars there, he’s going to have a problem on his hands.
No, it's the media that is doing the damage. Every one of them is a Northeaster, Urban dwelling, Liberal Democrat Union member in position to control what the public gets to hear.
They have a monopoly on the only effective communication system with the American people. They effectively deny freedom of speech to conservatives because they own the only means of communicating on a mass scale.
It's long past time we should be filing RICO and "contributions in kind" lawsuits against these liberal propaganda agents.
I posted #16 before I saw your quip.
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