Missouri student loses driving rights for flying Confederate flag

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136. I'm not calling Jefferson Davis a traitor,

nor am I calling most Southerners traitors.

Who am I calling traitors? The same yahoos who I hear all the time whine about the good old days that they never lived, while showing off their Confederate flag tattoos, claiming that the South (which a few in my neck of the woods treat as if it's a different country) will rise again and take over all the workings, all while putting me in my place because I actually read a "traitorous, liberal paper", or some other crap like that.

There is a time and a place. 150 years later and we have some who would prefer to return us to that time and place. I live in the state where this news story is from. (For those who have forgotten, this is the same town just a few months ago that made national news for banning books in its library.)

There are people (a small, but vocal, group) who make comments to this day about secession. Back in 2002/2003 (right around there, story sticks out but not exact year) Governor Bob Holden banned the flying of Confederate flags in Missouri state cemeteries and stated that they are not to be flown on public grounds of any taxpayer institutions because of the sensitive nature of what they might represent. Groups of people shortly thereafter lost their shit and threatened to actually hang the governor. The threats also were made towards any state workers because "if you worked for the state you supported it". The issue still gets debated regularly around here and it's never pretty.

People seem to forget that Missouri was a border state. Things were split here and they got nasty. Outside of the state that's forgotten but in the state it's still all-to-apparent. Chances are this issue had been addressed before at the school. (20 years ago when I was in high school we were informed at a yearly assembly that Confederate flags were one of the many things not allowed on school grounds because it wasn't conductive to studying.) This kid knew what he was doing. He was inciting.