Stifling free speech? California looks to ban Confederate flag

[flowers]

http://watchdog.org/167179/stifling-free-speech-california-looks-ban-confederate-flag/

CULLMAN, Ala. — California is looking to bar the “Stars and Bars.”

A bill sits on Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk to ban California from displaying or selling the Confederate flag or objects with images of it. The state’s Legislature passed the bill nearly unanimously last week.

Assemblyman Isadore Hall III, D-Compton, introduced the legislation after his mother discovered the Capitol gift shop sold a replica of Confederate money that contained a picture of the flag, according to the L.A. Times.

The lone dissenting vote among the 67 cast was from former California GOP gubernatorial candidate Tim Donnelly of Twin Peaks. He argued the bill would infringe on free speech.

“I’m a strict Constitutionalist,” he told the Times. “It’s painful and lonely.”

Hall thanked his fellow lawmakers for “standing together united to fend off the ugly hatred of racism that’s been portrayed and demonstrated through the emblem of the Confederacy.”

[GourmetDan]

Meanwhile, I'm sure the flag of Mexico is protected free speech.

Hypocrisy, thy name is California...

[rangerrebew]

Why don't they ban the American Flag while they are at it.  It means just as much to them as does the Confederate Flag.

[GourmetDan]

Why don't they ban the American Flag while they are at it.  It means just as much to them as does the Confederate Flag.

Well ya didn't have to go and give them the idea...   

[Fishrrman]

rangerrebew wrote above:
[[ Why don't they ban the American Flag while they are at it.  It means just as much to them as does the Confederate Flag. ]]

Wait 40 years.
Just wait....

[MACVSOG68]

Seems kinda silly to me given all the issues California has to deal with, but it's not a First Amendment issue.

[Atomic Cow]

They can ban it on government property, at a government run store, but anything else is a clear 1st Amendment violation.

[MACVSOG68]

They can ban it on government property, at a government run store, but anything else is a clear 1st Amendment violation.

That's all the bill calls for...banning it from state property.  They simply cannot ban it from non-state property or use.

[240B]

Why don't they ban the American Flag while they are at it.  It means just as much to them as does the Confederate Flag.

There have already been several instances of schools banning students for wearing an American flag, or the school would ask them hide the flag from view somehow. They said it might "offend" someone.
 
Let me tell you something. If you are in America, and attending an American school, and you are "offended" by the American flag...THEN GET THE HELL OUT!! America does not have to "conform" to immigrants, they have to conform to us. And if you don't like it, then why are you here? Go! Leave! No one is keeping you here. America is upsidedown. Everything is backwards.
 
No, this is no joke. The American Flag is clearly in the hopper for banning as soon as the Democrats can clear out Chirstianity and American Heritage first.

[R4 TrumPence]

That's all the bill calls for...banning it from state property.  They simply cannot ban it from non-state property or use.

Hey they are all over the place down here in SC including on Beach towels right Mac?  LOL

[MACVSOG68]

Hey they are all over the place down here in SC including on Beach towels right Mac?  LOL

We have a few flying.  There's a golf course on Hwy 1 heading toward Augusta that flies several.  And then there's the annual Battle of Aiken.  But the more crappola the lefties toss out re: the confederate flag, the more it pi$$es folks here off.  And they'll put one out just to throw it in their face.

Yet you won't find more patriotic people anywhere.   And (at least for now), they're allowed to say "bless you" in the classroom. 

[rangerrebew]

Well ya didn't have to go and give them the idea...   

When I first read your comment I couldn't help imagine John Wayne saying it.

[rangerrebew]

rangerrebew wrote above:
[[ Why don't they ban the American Flag while they are at it.  It means just as much to them as does the Confederate Flag. ]]

Wait 40 years.
Just wait....

Do you really think it will take that long?  I can see Mejifornia seceding from the nation and becoming part of Mejico, I really can.