[robowombat]

If the Quimby's were gay, transgendered, Maoist revolutionaries, or any of a string of eccentric types who are now officially deified pc saints this story would be on ABC, CBS, and NBC with some sort of TV movie being made as well and the family would be featured on Oprah as the victims de jour. Instead, since they are merely straight WASP working class Southerners they will continued to be tormented by malicious parties until they change their outward appearance and stop displaying un-pc symbols. This sort of political Grundyism has now throughly permeated our society so that even in working class Northport Alabama one has to be on guard against the local Stalinist informers. There is a comment here on what we have become as a nation and it is not a complimentary one.

[cowdog77]

Yet another example of "rights gone wrong".

[billbears]

With a long ponytail and tattooed arms, he may not look like a conventional father, and he thinks discrimination against him is the root of the problem. "I believe it’s my long hair and tattoos, and maybe my flag," he said. Gene says that the Confederate flag hanging in the window of the family’s mobile home is a symbol of his heritage and not of racism

Another possible heritage attack

[4CJ]

It would be illegal if I went down to the police station and filed a false report; this should be illegal too," Quimby said. "They’re abusing the system. The people that are being abused should be able to do something about it."

Wow, use their favorite quote against them - tell legislators to "Do it for the children."

[bassmaner]

Gene says that the Confederate flag hanging in the window of the family’s mobile home is a symbol of his heritage and not of racism.

I recently saw the "The Last Waltz", the documentary about the rock group "The Band" in their last live performance, directed by Martin Scorsese in 1975. In one of the interview scenes, the group (Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, et al.) is posed in front of a Confederate flag as they discuss their music, which included such songs as "The Night They Drove Ol' Dixie Down", which is a rather sympathetic recounting of the life of a rebel soldier.

I couldn't help but think as I watched this that Robertson and Scorsese would get pegged as "racists" if this movie were made today with that imagery, even though Robertson has been known to support left-wing, PC causes. These, poor, un-PC white folk don't stand a chance.

[Clintons Are White Trash]

It is way too easy for people to abuse this system to get even with someone they dislike.

[razorback-bert]

Susan Windham, a child welfare supervisor

I wonder if Susan has quit beating her children yet.

Just a rumor , but you never know.