Understanding that it is impolite call attention to oneself, we here at Slickster will simply point out the following, we have been on this, since July 2014.
As the sun rose in Texas Tuesday morning, the racists, uh, members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans awoke to bask in the glory of their victory over the tyranny of the freedom hating Texas DMV.It seems, with no sense of irony whatsoever, the SCV petitioned the federal courts to force Texas to issue license plates with the Confederate battle flag, because a bumper sticker of the flag of a racist, treasonous army simply wasn’t good enough.
From the Dallas Morning News:
The judges ruled that license plates are a form of “private speech,” and thus protected by the First Amendment. The court also ruled that the (Texas DMV’s) rejection of the plate “favored one speaker over another.”
As always, in cases such as this, one must remember, it’s about heritage, not hate. Of course, if your expressed heritage is symbolized by the banner of a defeated on the battlefield, pro-slavery, breakaway confederacy, well then since beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I know I’ll be beholding a racist douchebag piece of shit.Thank you for self-identifying to the rest of us.
Today, SCOTUS had this to say …
Texas argued that the speech is government speech, not private speech, and that the state is allowed to select the message that it is willing to support.“Texas is not willing to propagate the Confederate battle flag by etching that image onto state-issued license plates that bear the State’s name,” Solicitor General Jonathan F. Mitchell argued in briefs. He said that drivers could decorate their cars with bumper stickers, “but they cannot commandeer the state into promoting the Confederate battle flag on a state-issued license plate.”
This is the American Swastika (h/t Driftglass)
Your move South Carolina.
Our oath stated, … to defend the Constitution , of the United States, against all enemies, both foreign and domestic …, that flag only makes me want to fight against all it represents. There is no place for it other than history.
Agreed! The swastica used to be a symbol of good fortune and luck, but since the Nazis got a hold of it, that ship has sailed. Some things should lose their historic significance and be buried. The confederate flag and the swastica should just die.