Texas students sue to carry purses decorated with Confederate flag

The Kansas City Star ^ | February 9, 2007 | Martha Deller

[Stoat]

You wear your 'X', and I'll wear mine!

I would absolutely love to, but where I live it's common for people who dare to put Republican bumper stickers on their cars to have their tires slashed or the doors keyed. I'm guessing that if I were to wear a Confederate flag I would first be beaten to death by a crowd of smelly, flea-infested Marxist hippies who would then go to my house and burn it to the ground. 

I will proudly wear the Confederate flag in my heart and will display it ASAP when I am able to escape this hellhole.

"sigh"

You wear your 'X', and I'll wear mine!

[Libertarianchick]

Nice. :)

[Stoat]

Nice. :)

Thank you...I'm delighted that you approve   :-)

[Stoat]

Very smart of those girls to stand up for themselves and broadcast "Censored" on their purse(s)!

That took some American Pride Gusto! Way to go ladies!

Agreed, they do us all proud.

"Condi has a conference with the Burleson School Board"

Very smart of those girls to stand up for themselves and broadcast "Censored" on their purse(s)!

That took some American Pride Gusto! Way to go ladies!

[TexConfederate1861]

Don't blame me....I voted for KINKY!.....LOL!

[TexConfederate1861]

Austin is also known as "Moscow on the Colorado" or the "Peoples Republic of Austin"

[MissouriConservative]

"This shows their detractors that the principles that they are fighting for are fresh, relevant and timeless, and not antiquated canards that only people from another era are interested in."

I could not agree more. It seems every generation of Southern men and women have to fight this fight. You'd surely think that the left would get the hint that the South is not going to go away. They may flood the South with snowbirds and liberals who are hellbent on "remaking" it into the "new" south, but they will not take away something they cannot understand. It's not a fad, a passing fancy, or even a generational thing. It is bred into them, it is who they are and what makes that area such a unique cultural area unto itself. It's why liberals have such a hard time with pictures like this....



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[tom h]

"Texas students sue to carry purses decorated with Confederate flag ... Two Burleson High School students filed a federal lawsuit Friday against ... school officials [who] denied them the right to carry Confederate battle flag purses to school."

Here's a picture of the limp-wristed school principal named in the lawsuit:

Here's his contact info if you are so inclined:

Paul Cash, (817) 551-1065, 11701 South Fwy, Burleson, TX 76028, pcash@burlesonisd.net

[tkathy]

Every time the democrat confederate flag is dragged into the MSM, another nail in the coffin of conservatism is pounded!!!

[lentulusgracchus]

Don't concede the Unionist position by calling the War Between the States a "Civil War." By calling it a "Civil War" you presuppose the conflict to have been an internal struggle ....the proposition that the United States were one nation indivisible was the fundamental issue in dispute between the parties.

You raise a very good point.

The "Pledge of Allegiance" codifies and seeks to cast in stone for the students who are asked to recite it, the politics of Daniel Webster and the Yankee industrialists, whose political program consisted of three basic premises:

• 1. You can't leave the Union without my permission, which I will never grant,
• 2. You may try to persuade me, but I will decide everything,
• 3. I am free to please myself, but you are free only to do as I say.

This was the real significance of Webster's construction, or should I say "re-imagining", of the Union. Everything else was window-dressing.

The Framers, needless to say, did not share Webster's bullyboy conception of the Union (and its self-proclaimed champions and keepers, as a group) as master of the People.

Seen in that light, your point is well taken that the locution "the American Civil War" as a descriptive term of art actually biases the discussion. However, in general usage the term has been accepted for generations now throughout the country, and so I wouldn't make too big a deal of it until and unless I had successfully demonstrated by rational exposition the falsity of Webster's and Lincoln's position. That exposition is the essential work of anyone who wants to show American history in a clear light.

Defense of the usage "War Between the States" is in order, I think. I also think it is always necessary for clarity in argument, to object to the use of the words "rebellion" and "insurrection" to describe secession and the war of conquest which followed.

[lentulusgracchus]

Every time the democrat confederate flag is dragged into the MSM, another nail in the coffin of conservatism is pounded!!!

Not if conservatives arrest the lying hands that are doing the pounding!

Opponents of constitutionalism and conservatism have always tried polemically to "bracket"* them with the Ku Klux Klan. The bracketing is a lie, and it is necessary for conservatives to point it out, as these two young women have done.

* Propagandist's term of art for nonlogical conflation or equation of one idea or group with another, for manipulative effect.

[lentulusgracchus]

Hmmmm. Interesting portrait. Why do I get a strong impression of resemblance to George Herbert Walker "Poppy" Bush?

Is it just me? Or does he really look like Poppy?

[lentulusgracchus]

Ping to trek's good argument above about the terms "Civil War" and "War Between the States".

[tkathy]

If someone can't see the incredible harm that the confederate flag does to the conservative cause, then that person is part of the problem.

[Froufrou]

Oh, no apologies needed! I was poking fun at all the caricatures ppl have had about Texas, not at you!!!

Tejas means friendly, as you no doubt know. We love company. Gotta say though, we're somewhat rowdy in San Antonio. We party from Fiesta [April] through Diez y seis [September.]

Aside: I don't really like when it's called San Antone, but I don't like when people say Ha-wa-ya for Hawaii or nuke-u-lar for nuclear. I don't like when someone is called 'invalid.' There's nothing about handicaps that 'invalidates' a person. Quirks of Frou.

[antisocial]

"If someone can't see the incredible harm that the confederate flag does to the conservative cause, then that person is part of the problem."

But if the girls want to wear Che t-shirts or MalcomX caps , that would probably help the conservative cause?

[tkathy]

We're talking about the successful vilification of the conservative movement by the MSM and not throwing gasoline on the fire.

[x]

Serious defenders of the legacy of the south argue persuasively in my opinion that the Confederates were the true defenders of the original vision the founders had for the nation. The northern mercantilists were more than willing to toss aside the strictures of limited government in general and the Constitution in particular in order to better service their own interests. And given the Leviathan state we face today it is hard to argue that the Confederates were not correct to oppose this.

The Founders were convinced that slavery was on its way out. They were also committed to the union.

Secession and the expansion of slavery were radical ideas which would have changed our continent as much as anything Lincoln did.

It's because they lost that the leaders of the rebellion can be painted as conservatives.

Had they won, we'd be discussing how they killed off the "old republic."

[Ditto]

Let us get this well worn canard out of the way by conceding a reluctance to abolish slavery as the ignoble legacy of the confederacy. Serious defenders of the legacy of the south argue persuasively in my opinion that the Confederates were the true defenders of the original vision the founders had for the nation. The northern mercantilists were more than willing to toss aside the strictures of limited government in general and the Constitution in particular in order to better service their own interests.

You can't get slavery out of the way that easily. At the time of the civil war, there was absolutly movement of any kind in the Confederate states to abolish slavery. In fact, just the opposite was true and the entire Confederate cause was built around expanding slavery which the North opposed. See article IV, Section 3 of the Confederate Constitution to understand what it was all about.

(3) The Confederate States may acquire new territory; and Congress shall have power to legislate and provide governments for the inhabitants of all territory belonging to the Confederate States, lying without the limits of the several Sates; and may permit them, at such times, and in such manner as it may by law provide, to form States to be admitted into the Confederacy. In all such territory the institution of negro slavery, as it now exists in the Confederate States, shall be recognized and protected be Congress and by the Territorial government; and the inhabitants of the several Confederate States and Territories shall have the right to take to such Territory any slaves lawfully held by them in any of the States or Territories of the Confederate States.

It was all about expansion, and if they Confederacy had suceeded, they would have expanded --- the pressures of a rapidly expanding slave population would have forced them to do so, or die.

[enviros_kill]

Exactly - just finished reading "The Real Lincoln" and that lays out the historical facts for Lincoln's successful attempt to turn the United States into what Alexander Hamilton wanted all along.

http://www.amazon.com/Real-Lincoln-Abraham-Agenda-Unnecessary/dp/0761536418

Lincoln was a BAD man.