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SouthernN'Proud

Southern Discomfort
I have been following this situation closely. As a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, who also happens to live in a district where the high school our daughter will soon attend has as their mascot the Rebel, I am keenly following it. Our SCV camp is preparing for the pending controversy to defend the Rebel name on our school. The high school in the following press release is located fairly close to here, and is embroiled in the name change battle. This incident is one of the key events leading to the attempt by a second generation of Yankee invaders to try and conquer Dixie...this time on a virtual battlefield.

Yes, it's that involved.

I personally don't care what your feelings about the battle flag are. I do challenge you to stop and think though. Would you want this happening in your town, instigated by people who live hundreds or thousands of miles away?





The Southern Legal Resource Center

News Release

For Immediate Release: Thursday, March 2, 2006


Blount County school board, school officials sued over ban on Confederate flag



KNOXVILLE, TN – Three high school students and their parents are suing the Blount County School Board and two school officials in connection with the ban on Confederate symbols currently in effect there. The suit will be filed today at the federal courthouse in Knoxville.

The suit charges that the students’ constitutional rights were violated between May of 2005 and January of 2006, when they were subjected to disciplinary action for wearing items of clothing bearing the Confederate flag. The action taken against the students, as well as the ban on Confederate symbols itself, violates their First Amendment rights of free speech. The disciplinary action taken against them also violates Fourteenth Amendment principles of equal protection and due process, the suit alleges.

Knoxville Attorney Val Irion is acting as counsel for the students and their families, supported by the Southern Legal Resource Center of Black Mountain, North Carolina. The SLRC, as it is known, is a legal organization that specializes in civil rights cases involving Southern heritage and culture issues.

“In a school system that supposedly prizes diversity and allows students to wear and display all manner of ethnic and cultural symbols, these kids were discriminated against simply for taking pride in their own ancestry,” said Roger McCredie, the SLRC’s Executive Director.

On February 10, Irion sent a letter to William Blount Principal Steve Lafon, with copies to the school board, seeking a review of the school’s policy. He received no reply. “That means the taxpayers of Knox County now are going to have to fund a lawsuit that’s been made necessary by their refusal even to discuss this matter.”

Earlier this week the SLRC settled a case out of court on behalf of its client Jacqueline Duty, a Kentucky student who was barred from her senior prom for wearing a, evening dress patterned after the Confederate flag. That case in turn was based on another SLRC victory, Castorina v. Madison County Schools, in which an appellate court struck down a school board’s ban on Confederate symbols. The Federal Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, where the Castorina case was heard, includes Tennessee, McCredie noted. “The Blount County School Board’s legal counsel must surely be aware of that,” McCredie said.

Irion will act as lead attorney in the case, with SLRC Chief Trial Counsel Kirk D. Lyons acting as co-counsel, McCredie said.


If you value your individual rights as a citizen, better think this over. It could be you next.

God bless Dixie!
 

FluerVanderloo

New Member
They've got my support. I remember leading a small rebellion of my own after the flag was banned my junior year. I wrote a letter to the principal and got about 5 people on my side about it, and he lifted the ban for my senior year. Small victory, but a victory nonetheless.

If there's anything an outsider can do to help, I'm in.
 

Gato_Solo

Out-freaking-standing OTC member
The flag doesn't really bother me that much. Some of the people who use it, however, can be a real pain.
 

SouthernN'Proud

Southern Discomfort
Charge to the Sons of Confederate Veterans

To you, Sons of Confederate Veterans, we will commit the vindication of the Cause for which we fought. To your strength will be given the defense of the Confederate soldier's good name, the guardianship of his history, the emulation of his virtues, the perpetuation of those principles which he loved and which you love also, and those ideals which made him glorious and which you also cherish. Remember, it is your duty to see that the true history of the South is presented to future generations.

Lt. General Stephen Dill Lee
Commander-General
United Confederate Veterans
New Orleans, Louisiana
April 25, 1906
 

highwayman

New Member
As far as I am concerned they can fly whatever they want as a flag as long as it is not obscene, all something like is about is being PC... The FTW attitude is dying out in this country....
 

nalani

Well-Known Member
SouthernN'Proud said:
Would you want this happening in your town, instigated by people who live hundreds or thousands of miles away?

I'm a Hawaiian in Hawai'i, remember? Been there, done that, got the t-shirt ... and a new flag :D

Personally, because I'm not on the continent, I don't mind the flag at all. I remember my father saying he used to fly his back in Texas just to piss off certain people off who were on the soap boxes all the time. To be honest, I used to really love it because it was on the Dukes of Hazard car - and of course, I was like 8 years old and had no earthly idea what it meant to anyone :D

If you value your individual rights as a citizen, better think this over. It could be you next.
I totally agree and second you on that .. like I said, I don't really have a feeling one way or another since it's not a part of who I am, but anyone who feels that strongly about his or her culture, flag and lifestyle in their own home should, IMHO, stand up for their beliefs.
 

SouthernN'Proud

Southern Discomfort
FluerVanderloo said:
They've got my support.

If there's anything an outsider can do to help, I'm in.

I will try and find the address (email and postal) of every school board member in Blount County. I had them on the other computer, but that kinda got ruined. Dammit. Or you can google something like "Maryville TN Confederate flag" and probably find several news stories about it.

I have already mailed each and every school board member in Blount County as well as the principal of the school and anyone else I can think of expressing my outrage over this wad of crap. I heard a blurb over a radio newscast from the principal stating that he was "overwhelmed" with mail and email about this, and that over 80% of it was negative. That leaves 20% we need to erase.

Why some harpy from Illinois has to stick her nose into something that will never impact her one iota is beyond me. I ain't trying to tell them how to run their town. I know for a fact I won't ever live there, so what they do means squat to me personally. But it's typical. We're overrun with transplanted yankees who do nothing but bitch about what we're doing wrong and how much better it is "back up north". To which my standard reply is, "Interstate 81 runs north every day. I'll fill your tank, pack a picnic basket, buy you a road atlas, and provide personal escort to the Tennessee state line...you just have to have your car full of others just like you. Saves trips." And I mean every syllable.

God bless Dixie.
 

Inkara1

Well-Known Member
A few high schools in California are probably going to have to change their "Redskin" mascot, too. And, of course, the NCAA is going after schools with NAtive American mascots (but not all fo them if they can get a waiver) because that's so much more important than gambling, steroids, academic fraud, etc. Think they'll go after "rebels" next? Why not the Idaho Vandals, since vandalism is bad?
 

SouthernN'Proud

Southern Discomfort
If we wanna get picky, Fighting Irish is as stereotypical as Seminoles.

Ole Miss will be next after they rid the high schools. Unless we can stop 'em, and I'm doing my part.

I do not exagerate when I say that seeing a team named the yankees is as offensive to me as someone having to tolerate the Rebels. We weren't the invaders/rapers/pillagers/thieves/liars.
 

flavio

Banned
SouthernN'Proud said:
We weren't the invaders/rapers/pillagers/thieves/liars.
Does it bother you to be part of that stuff now?

"For bending under unjust laws and swearing faith to an unjust cause, We count as greater shame!"

Good stuff.
 

Inkara1

Well-Known Member
I could probably describe the step-by-step process of how I wipe my ass and you'd find some way to tie that into your anti-Bush rhetoric, too.
 

SouthernN'Proud

Southern Discomfort
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, March 8, 2006



Students slap $10 million lawsuit on Blount County school officials

Complaint alleges teacher, principal harassed female student

in retaliation for last week’s suit over Confederate flag ban



KNOXVILLE, TN – A lawsuit filed today in U.S. District Court seeks $10 million in damages from Blount County education officials for harassment of a female high school student.

Both the lawsuit and a request for a temporary restraining order filed simultaneously allege that William Blount High School Principal Steve Lafon threatened the minor student and “took close up pictures of [her] thighs,” with no other students or school employees present, in a pair of jeans her teacher, Mark Williams, claimed violated the school’s dress code. Williams has been named as a co-defendant in the suit, together with the entire Blount County School Board.

The incident occurred on March 3, only hours after Lafon had been served with a lawsuit stemming from the school’s ban on images of the Confederate flag. The female student whom Lafon allegedly forcibly photographed is the girl friend of one of the student plaintiffs in that case, and today’s suit claims that Lafon’s actions against her were in retaliation for the first suit. Williamson had sent several other students to the office for reported violations of the dress code, but only the girl friend was subjected to being photographed, the suit states.

Knoxville Attorney Van Irion filed both complaints and represents plaintiffs in both actions. The Southern Legal Resource Center of Black Mountain, North Carolina, is acting as co-counsel. The SLRC is a nonprofit legal organization that specializes in cases involving Southern heritage and culture.

The motion for temporary restraining order requests that the female plaintiff be transferred out of Williamson’s class at once, and that neither Williamson nor Lafon be allowed within fifty feet of her.

**end**

These busybodies wanted a fight. They're getting one. Had they kept their ass in Illinois or where ever and minded their own business...
 

Altron

Well-Known Member
What is going on with censorship in schools? I can understand private companies or schools, but public schools?!?!

I was walking down the hallway with my friend one day. He was wearing a Guiness T-shirt. It said Guiness 1759 and had a picture of the harp. He got a detention for 'Promoting underage consumption of alcohol'. What's the justice in that? It's completely retarded, as retarded as prohibiting a flag of your cultural heritage. Try prohibiting a flag for a minority, and suddenly it's racist. But it's fine to prohibit Confederate flags, since only white people have them, and we aren't a minority, so it doesn't matter what we think.
 

chcr

Too cute for words
Altron said:
What is going on with censorship in schools? I can understand private companies or schools, but public schools?!?!

I was walking down the hallway with my friend one day. He was wearing a Guiness T-shirt. It said Guiness 1759 and had a picture of the harp. He got a detention for 'Promoting underage consumption of alcohol'. What's the justice in that? It's completely retarded, as retarded as prohibiting a flag of your cultural heritage. Try prohibiting a flag for a minority, and suddenly it's racist. But it's fine to prohibit Confederate flags, since only white people have them, and we aren't a minority, so it doesn't matter what we think.
Is he Irish? He could probably file suit for having his heritage oppressed. They wouldn't be able to tell whether he was talking about the Guiness or the drinking. :D
 

Altron

Well-Known Member
chcr said:
Is he Irish? He could probably file suit for having his heritage oppressed. They wouldn't be able to tell whether he was talking about the Guiness or the drinking. :D

He's definetly from somewhere in the British Isles, so he should be able to sue.
 

Gonz

molṑn labé
Staff member
Altron said:
What is going on with censorship in schools? I can understand private companies or schools, but public schools?!?!

This is a much confused issue. However, in the end, children do not & can not have the same rights (nor expectations) as adults. One of the major scrweups in the last couple of decades is making kids think they're adults.
 
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