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Originally Posted by flstf
Well, many of us have relatives who were drafted as young men and fought in the civil war. To my family from Louisiana, the Confederate battle flag was never a symbol of racism and I hate seeing it portrayed as such, which is what seems to have been the reason for not allowing it here.
I don't like the idea of people burning the U.S. flag either but they have that right so far. I believe there are some polititian's trying or have tried to pass laws against it though. Then it would be up to the courts. I was just using an example of an activity of legal protest against the federal government in response to your renegade flag comment.
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Usually flying the flag of an army that was at war with the US nation would be considered treason, I would think. That was my point. Yet when it comes to something you support, it's ok.
Somehow I think your position would change if I erected a North Korean flag on the steps of the federal courthouse. That's free speech, too. Perhaps I should exercise my free speech capabilities by smoking a cuban cigar in front of the courthouse. That would be the ulitmate: a (banned) communist commodity, on the steps of an area that is disignated by law to be smoking free. At some point, common sense will dictate where we want to go with this thing.
I can't speak for your family. It doesn't matter, frankly, what they thought of the flag 100 years ago or what their descendants think about it now.
I hope that people will go back and read the relevant case law. Host posted a
portion of it. For one, even the small tidbit clearly states that schools
can stop children from wearing inflammatory clothes. They just have to have an appropriate reason to do so.