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Va. Gov. moves to strip Confederate flag from license plates
WTOP ^ | 06/23/2015 | WTOP Staff

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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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: dixie; mcauliffe; purge; virginia
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To: DiogenesLamp

Unfortunately the flag that is so strongly associated with the Ku Klux Klan is the confederate battle flag, not the Stars n Bars.

Perhaps if some good ol boys had intervened and knocked some heads when they saw their symbol being appropriated by the klanners...


41 posted on 06/23/2015 8:49:05 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Pining_4_TX
No matter what they do, it won’t stop black rage. There is no appeasing them.

But it creates the false illusion of "progress." In the meantime, "bad think" and "bad speech" gets banned.

42 posted on 06/23/2015 8:49:43 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: DiogenesLamp

There are some bad southerners in the mix as well - Joe Scarborough being one of them.


43 posted on 06/23/2015 8:50:06 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: sport
Never happen. Not one single Democrat or Democrat candidate will be asked a single question concerning the flag. The media intend to and will hang this in its entirety around the necks of the Republicans.

Which just goes to demonstrate that the media are a weapon, and need to be smashed like Hitler's Nazi soldiers.

44 posted on 06/23/2015 8:50:53 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: satan

different animal.

the CSA is a failed state. There is a specific body of law as to failed states. (contract obligations, deliveries, bonds, etc.)

Is should be treated as all other failed states.


45 posted on 06/23/2015 8:51:38 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: rockrr
SCOTUS says otherwise.

As Abraham Lincoln said: "Just because you call a tail a "leg" doesn't make it so.

It is a clear 14th amendment violation.

46 posted on 06/23/2015 8:52:44 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: Kozak

the left pounced because this symbolic nothing victory is all they could obtain. The irony is that it is the symbol of the Democrat Party in the south.


47 posted on 06/23/2015 8:52:55 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Ohioan
There are a great many indications that Obama has been employing the Hitler "play book." (And, if you understand Leftist tactics, it makes a lot of sense, why they would employ that formula in America, rather than the Bolshevik. The Nazi revolution, after all, was also directed at a largely "middle class" population--as opposed to the largely peasant population in 1917 Russia.)

Agreed. It is simply a reincarnation of the effort to establish a socialist Aristocracy with a large peasant class, and very few middle class "troublemakers" for the powers that be.

48 posted on 06/23/2015 8:55:07 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: GIdget2004

Republicans have been trying to get rid of it and now the Demorats get glorified for taking THEIR flag down.


49 posted on 06/23/2015 8:56:21 AM PDT by celmak (Never been banned - but those who throw lies have)
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To: DiogenesLamp
As Abraham Lincoln said: "Just because you call a tail a "leg" doesn't make it so.

True dat. But they're calling a tail a tail.

50 posted on 06/23/2015 8:56:36 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: GIdget2004

Note that the Confederate Flag in VA is only available as a Sons of Confederate Veterans plate. What is the victory in taking the symbol from them?

Think I’ll just change my plain tags to the Gadsden flag, “Don’t Tread on Me” choice available to everyone in the commonwealth.

Byte me, Terry, you modern day carpetbagger.


51 posted on 06/23/2015 8:57:31 AM PDT by Darnright (No, We Love Yeshua (Jesus).)
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To: rockrr
Perhaps if some good ol boys had intervened and knocked some heads when they saw their symbol being appropriated by the klanners...

I don't give a rat's ass about the confederate flag, all I care about is the fact that the people I regard as enemies hate it and want to ban it.

As Churchill said, "If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons"

52 posted on 06/23/2015 8:58:33 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: DiogenesLamp

Then what are you flapping your gums about?


53 posted on 06/23/2015 8:59:37 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: GIdget2004

SQUIRREL!

The church was a gun-free zone so let’s talk about a flag.


54 posted on 06/23/2015 8:59:50 AM PDT by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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To: miss marmelstein
There are some bad southerners in the mix as well - Joe Scarborough being one of them.

I probably didn't make my meaning clear in my usage of the term "Northeasterners". I'm just wanting to convey the fact that these people controlling the airwaves have the dominant opinions of the New York and Boston Urban mindset, and not that of most of the rest of the nation.

Our cultural "elite" tell them what to think.

No offense intended towards Northeasterners in general, it's just that the Nation's power class resides mostly there. (And to a lesser extent in San Fransisco.)

55 posted on 06/23/2015 9:02:27 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: rockrr
True dat. But they're calling a tail a tail.

Which only tells me that you are failing to grasp the concept of "equal protection/application of the law", which is odd given your insistence on it being the sacrosanct point in our usual discussions.

56 posted on 06/23/2015 9:04:40 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: DiogenesLamp

No, I’m certainly not offended. The northeastern seaboard is completely responsible for this crazy stuff - just that a few southerners (that idiot Bob Schieffer!) are in the mix.


57 posted on 06/23/2015 9:06:22 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: GIdget2004
How is the Confederate flag have anything to do with the shooting? Will the tv show "Dukes of Hazard" be banned too? Will they change the car using special effects?

58 posted on 06/23/2015 9:07:30 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: rockrr
Then what are you flapping your gums about?

I guess you never heard of this guy.

59 posted on 06/23/2015 9:08:24 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: GIdget2004

where does it stop? lee jackson highway next. jeff davis highway? Jefferson Memorial (slave owner), washington monument? Mount Vernon?


60 posted on 06/23/2015 9:08:28 AM PDT by databoss
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