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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Virginia elected this governor. If any of those that believed in their heritage voted for him they are getting just desserts.
You can blame this on a lot of things (and the elite media does play a large part in it) but it isn’t the northerners in southern states who are moving this in legislatures, is is southerners for the most part. I am sure there are some transplants pushing it, but the hands moving the levers are most likely liberal southerners.
Before you bite my head off, I disagree with this movement, root and branch.
I view the confederate flag as an indisputable part of American heritage, and the movement to dump it down the memory hole should offend anyone who believes in the freedom of speech unencumbered by political correctness via government actions.
Too many people think that allowing this is no big deal, but it is a big deal, because what is dear today, may tomorrow, due to political considerations, be deemed evil.
Nobody should wish to give that power to a government at any level.
This is how Americans will lose the Second Amendment. There will be an especially tragic event and the RATs and Rinos will pounce - then announce they can no longer support gun ownership by any member of an identifiable group who has been accused of having a racist past.
A lot of freepers are ignorant jack asses. Why follow them?
Who are simply responding to being whipped by New York Broadcasting Corporations. Take away the whipping, and they would not be moving on this.
Too many people think that allowing this is no big deal, but it is a big deal, because what is dear today, may tomorrow, due to political considerations, be deemed evil.
They are already doing it with the American Flag, and the Christian Cross. Opposition to "Gay Marriage" is slowly becoming a hate crime. Even the phrase "Land of Opportunity" is being prohibited on California Campuses.
We are being stampeded into Gleichschaltung by the Liberal Media propaganda soldiers.
Those pictures were taken in the 1920’s when the Ku Klux Klan was at its height of political power, if I remember correctly.
It’s actually a little of both.
The shooting wasn’t planned in the false flag sense.
But there was certainly advanced planning by the Left on how to exploit such a situation once it happened.
The 1950s and 60s Civil Rights Movement was great with this. The Bus Boycott was planned long before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. In fact, there was a previous candidate, a young girl who did the same before Parks. Unfortunately for her she was pregnant out of wedlock, so the Civil Rights leaders dropped her and waited for a better candidate. Who they got in Parks.
This is all laid out in “Eyes on the Prize”. And yes, what Parks did was courageous and the boycott against a great evil completely justified. But any discussion of it should also include the excellent organizational advance planning involved.
Yesterday you approved of Nikki Haley's decision to remove the flag, and you were criticizing those who fly it.
Sudden change of heart?
Like that would actually make a difference.
I think Jeff Davis Hwy (US Rt 1) is next.
This whole flag issue - which popped up out of nowhere, is designed to split the Republican Party before the next elections.
The south is solidly Republican. Many in the south view the confederate flag as a part of their heritage. Many white people in the rest of the country (including Republicans) have been brainwashed over the past 30-40 years to believe that the confederate flag is a symbol of racism.
So, you have the whites in the south, who defend the flag as a symbols of regional pride vs. whites in the rest of the country who see it as a symbol of racism.
There are now in winners in this fight, only losers. The Democrats are enjoying this!
My disappointment is in the southern Republican politicians who are so scared to be called racists that they throw their fellow citizens under the bus.
I read your other post and know what you mean about "northerners" but I am ringing the bell for everyone including Southerners to say:
"Liberalism is a cancer that is everywhere. A state line isn't going to save you, it needs to be fought by everyone everywhere."
I see a lot of people decrying some other state as being full of liberals (which may be true) but even the most conservative states have the cancer in them too, in my opinion.
We need to find a way to fight this together.
I just love the fever of political correctness. One liberal idiot says something and every other liberal has to jump on board just to be “hip.” These people haven’t had an original thought since Kennedy managed to get himself shot.
That is my understanding as well. At that time, that group was considered mainstream and acceptable. It reflects a period when the whole country was pretty much racist, and unapologetically so.
Nobody associates the American flag with them just because they co-opted it for their own purposes. Nor should they do the same for the Battle flag of the army of Northern Virginia.
.... my experience has been that most Southerners are polite and tolerant towards others.
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Southerners tend to “speak softly & carry a big stick” when push comes to shove .... we’re still mostly speaking softly, but the way things are headed with the Leftists, they will eventually make it inevitable and unavoidable that we will have to defend our freedoms, way of life, and families from enemies, foreign and domestic.
That is true, but I see the only way to fight this is to take away the media monopoly power from the liberals.
I was telling someone the other day that the Vietnam War was lost because of the power of the Liberal Media, and all other reasons are secondary.
What you said illustrates the greater problem.
I happen to think Admiral Bill Halsey was one of the greatest fighting men this country has produced, and he has had schools, roads, bridges, etc. named after him, and rightfully so.
It isn’t too much of a stretch to think of a circumstance where he becomes a persona no grata because during the war he unleashed tirades of what would today be called racist vitriol.
His memory and what he stood for are dear to me. But I don’t have to think too hard to see a situation where someone agitates to have his name removed from a school or road somewhere.
Look at what we have now. Just thirty years ago, people would have thought you were insane if you described a fraction of the weirdness we see today.
One only has to look at the documentary on the Tet Offensive narrated by Charles Heston to see the absolute truth there.
Old Uncle Walter was a Rat. A statist, scummy rat.
I’m not a Southerner. My family is almost completely in the northern part of our country.
That said.
Didn’t the United States also fight a war with Mexico?
Didn’t Mexico lose that war?
No more Mexican flags and no more speaking Spanish.
They were enslaving people and killing Americans.
And no more “Hispanic”.
Slight difference between a flag flying on the state capital grounds and a logo on a "Sons of Confederate Veterans" affinity license plate - which presumably requires one to actually be a descendant of a Confederate veteran.
Interesting, too that only 1,594 of the plates have been issued. (Making it unlikely that the Sons of Confederate Veterans will litigate this.)
Gov. Terry McAwful grandstanding? Is it possible?
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