PolishKnight said...
Gentlemen, although it would be tempting to blame Caltrans, they're only complying with a court order from some judge proclaiming that the American flag constitutes political speech. It was actually Caltrans that was on the RECEIVING end of that lawsuit and had tried to keep the flags up!
The villain here is some judge who decided in terminator robot logical fashion that an American flag constituted political speech and therefore was illegal to be displayed on public roads. There's a lot wrong with that thinking including the notion that the 1st amendment PROHIBITS expression of political speech rather than PROTECTING it, that a specific monument cleared for construction is the same as hanging a political banner across an overpass, and finally that patriotic political speech is on the same level as anti-patriotic free speech.
In theory, according to this judge, his precedent would require the white house to fly a pirate flag.
May 12, 2011 9:17 AM
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