The Washington Post reports that the petition will be presented the Virginia state House and Senate, Gov. Terry McAuliffe, Congress and President Obama. Man, they want the full force of the law to land on the Virginia Flaggers, don't they?
But this flag is on private property.
This isn't the first time flag-haters have attempted to get the flag off private property. Kristin Konate collected signatures via an online petition to keep the first flag from going up near Richmond, in Chester. She gathered 20,000 signatures. The flag went up anyway and is still there, unless it has fallen prey to vandalism and/or theft the past few hours.
What this illustrates is the leftist's disregard for the rule of law. The flag is on private property and the government has no authority to tell people what flags they cannot fly on their property. Doesn't matter. Leftists see government as their Big Mama to comfort and soothe them when something happens they don't like, and, paradoxically, their personal thumb-breaker to coerce those who do something they don't like. Doesn't matter if its legal and protected by law. What matter to them is how they feel and what they want.
It wasn't long ago that the flag on private property would be protected by law -- but now that's questionable. Considering the recent Supreme Court decisions, we can no longer expect Constitutional norms to be respected. Laws and rulings will be subjected to the force of whim.
The court showed us long ago that it does not hold human life sacred. These most recent cases show that the court no longer rules on the basis of the Constitution, but on the personal whim and the ideological beliefs of the individual justices. Perhaps it isn't likely, but it is very possible that the SCOTUS will abolish private property rights to appease the whim of the NAACP, which will be the end of the rule of law and the end of Constitutional protection ... of anything.
Clickable link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/06/26/naacp-petitions-to-remove-a-large-confederate-flag-flying-over-i-95/
Konate must have gone to Pennsylvania and New Jersey to get the signatures. Or made a lot of them up in typical Leftist fashion
ReplyDeleteIt was an internet petition, so the signees could have been from Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego to Nuuk, Greenland, for all we know.
DeleteThe people have a right to petition the government for anything they want, but the government must weigh the petition against the law and Const., and rule accordingly. The will rule in favor of property rights, but the petition can show public opinion for or against something.
ReplyDeleteI don't know, Mr. Livingston. Property rights may be on the same chopping block where first and second amendment rights are being targeted -- meaning the people who are supposed to secure those rights are the ones chopping away at them.
DeleteConnie saw this comment at crossroads real honorable of him making fun of someone who has a disability. These yankee scum make me sick.
ReplyDeleteProbably out buying new tennis balls for the walker right now.
Yeah, from Al Mackey. He and I go back a long way, when we were both members of a demented leftist Yahoo group. I was a thorn in their side.
DeleteAnyway, he's just permanently mad at me because I photoshopped hair on him...
http://mybacksass.blogspot.com/2013/10/i-think-ive-figured-out.html
Dang I hate I missed that but I had just returned from a tour of duty in Afghanistan when that was posted and was trying to get my life back to normal. You know I didn't start out disliking these folks but they made it impossible to get along with them they are right and ever one else is wrong in their mind. Heck I know I ain't right all the time but I am man enough to admit it but not that bunch they are God's gift to history. And Al you are still a jerk.
DeleteNo problem. They love to ridicule others, but can't take having it done to them, due to their ginormous egos. They don't know how funny they are.
Delete"The large flag flying on I-95 in Stafford VA should be removed"
ReplyDeleteRather lame petition. 391 signatures (with goal of only 400).
94 from Stafford.