Sons Of Confederate Veterans Lose in Lexington.

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To All,

Found this article on the CWMemory blog.

Sons of Confederate Veterans Lose in Lexington.

http://cwmemory.com/2012/06/14/sons-of-confederate-veterans-lose-in-lexington/#comments

Thoughts?

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[Red Harvest]

Looks ironclad to me. They shut all outside groups down, limiting it only to official govt. symbols for that particular publicly held forum.
Full decision is at:
http://www.vawd.uscourts.gov/OPINIONS/WILSON/712CV00013.PDF

 

[jgoodguy]

A case dismissal is pretty final.

 

[shanniereb]

Ok, I am an advocate of Confederate Heritage, and I will define what I am celebrating: My ancestor's courage. I can not for life of me understand why we label 80% something percent of Southernors in with the rest of the slave holders? OK, no baiting or flaming just a question because I realized yesterday that some of our feelings are "raw" on the board and I don't want to start another battle. Anyways back on subject, Their courage in overwhelming odds and numbers, their love of family and state, the same reason I celebrate my patriot ancestry.

 

[jgoodguy]

Ok, I am an advocate of Confederate Heritage, and I will define what I am celebrating: My ancestor's courage. I can not for life of me understand why we label 80% something percent of Southernors in with the rest of the slave holders? OK, no baiting or flaming just a question because I realized yesterday that some of our feelings are "raw" on the board and I don't want to start another battle. Anyways back on subject, Their courage in overwhelming odds and numbers, their love of family and state, the same reason I celebrate my patriot ancestry.

I like Mosby's quote.

"I am not ashamed of having fought on the side of slavery—a soldier fights for his country—right or wrong—he is not responsible for the political merits of the course he fights in ... The South was my country

 

[jgoodguy]

Remember they can stand and hold flag poles, mount them to their car or put them on private property.

 

[shanniereb]

I have been following this case closely, so the case was dismissed.

 

[donna]

This case is not necessarily over. The SCV could decide to appeal to the Federal Court of Appeals for this district. That court could either uphold the Federal District Judge's opinion or overrule his decision. If it upheld or overruled then the party who lost again could file appeal to U.S. Supreme Court.

Since sentiments are very high on this case, I would not be surprised that an Appeal would be filed.

In my experience, if one's client really believes in what they fighting for, Appeals are the only option. I was always glad in one particular case I was involved in on Age Discrimination that my client wanted to appeal to the Federal Court of Appeals in Cincinnati. That court overruled the District Court Judge. It was the right ruling and was my first time before that court.

 

[JWheeler331]

Just more of the same.

 

[prroh]

Seems like a reasonable decision. The ordinance does not single out a particular private flag.

yesterday, however, I was in new castle, DE and they hang Dutch, Swedish, British, Delaware and American flags from their light poles to celebrate their history as these flags flew over the town at one time or another. I also see nothing wrong with this concept as one flag , excepting the US flag, has any precedence over others.

A "six flag" concept works well. It is the Battle flag flown to the exclusion of others that I might object.