From the Office of the Attorney General of Maryland:
Attorney General Brian E. Frosh announced that the recall of Maryland license plates bearing the Confederate flag could begin this fall after a federal judge agreed on Thursday to lift a 1997 injunction that prohibited taking them out of circulation.
U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis issued an order on Thursday granting the Attorney General’s request to lift the 1997 injunction that prevented the recall of Sons of Confederate Veterans specialty tags.
“I look forward to the day when these plates are no longer on the road,” Attorney General Frosh said. “This flag is a painful symbol that divides us, conjuring images of hate and subjugation. It has no place in any contemporary government use.”
Maryland first attempted to recall the specialty plates bearing the logo of the Sons of Confederate Veterans in the 1990s, but the U.S. District Court ruled at the time that the tags were protected as free speech under the First Amendment.
In June, however, the Supreme Court decided states could reject specialty license plates as a form of government speech. Attorney General Frosh, with the backing of Governor Larry Hogan, requested that the injunction be lifted.
The effective date of Judge Garbis’s order is Nov. 17.
Attorney General Frosh thanked Assistant Attorneys General Julia Doyle Bernhardt, Patrick Hughes and Neil Jacobs for their work on the case.
So freedom of speech is no longer valid?
From the article:
“the Supreme Court decided states could reject specialty license plates as a form of government speech”
However, you’re still free to paint a confederate flag on your car if you’d like. I personally think we’ve gone way overboard on being so politically correct. You can thank “progressive” liberals for that.
I’m pretty sure the only reason the “Molon Labe” stickers haven’t been outlawed is because most progressives think it’s either the name of an imported beer or a local rock band.
At least for MVA license plates.
Its a little ridiculous. The plate said something like “Sons of Confederates” with a little tiny flag in the middle left.
As I understand (and not reported) there had to be proven records that the recipient of such vanity plate had to have family heritage of a confederate soldier.
I assume a majority of inept readers think the entire license plate was painted in a confederate flag and that anyone can get them.
When is this wave of “political correctness” going to end? My goodness! I’m afraid to say “Good Morning” to people on the street, coworkers, etc. because I just may “offend” someone! We’re turning into a nation of cry-babies for goodness sake! THANK YOU, Mr President, for turning the greatest nation in history into a little “Nanny State”!
No surprise, the $hit state of Maryland is pathetic.
Unreal!!
Good, proper and sound decision (and Larry Hogan agrees). If you Confederate Battle Flag sympathizers want, then yes, you may paint your entire vehicle with that flag (but you would look like the idiot that you actually are, and I’m certain that it wouldn’t bother you one bit).
Okay, then. I guess I’ll just have to paint the wife’s car to look like the “General Lee”!
Of course, the down side would be sleeping in the garage!
I guess the Republik of MD will destroy the old license plates along with all of the civil war monuments. It’s a good thing the loser who murdered the people in the church wasn’t holding the U.S. flag or that would be gone too.
Like I said. It’s just a matter of time before the gov will tell you when n where to shit n you better make sure that ker n blunk are licensed! Our government is no different then that of iran. We just hide all the evil America does. Our creed has always been, a lil evil for much good? What a focking joke? America doesnt know the difference between good n evil, ask an american indian what he thinks about american integrity. The rich n powerful write history even if it is a pathetic lie.
Thanks to our gun-grabbing, left-wing Attorney General I would not be surprised if any and all historic referenced to the Confederate South are erased from our history at the hands of the State. I do have one question for you Mr. Attorney General, do you plan on bulldozing the Washington Monument and the Jefferson Memorial as well because both of these men owned slaves? I would suspect that we will be replacing the faces of most of the founding fathers that currently existing on all American currency, as many of these men were slave owners.
It makes perfect sense in a State that plans to rename General Lee park and names a recreation center after a multiple convicted drug dealer and criminal. I suspect that Frosh hopes to rename the Key Bridge the Louis Farrakhan Memorial Bridge and Fort McHenry the Huey Newton Historical Fort to appease the 15 or so Maryland members of the white lead “anti-terror” group BLM.
You “Sir”, are a focking idiot!
I think the MVA needs to scrap ALL vanity plates.
To include the FOP nutswingers who drive around showing off all the most common blatant vehicle repair order citations they could receive.
I don’t get that. Its one thing to have your FOP tags, but why tint your windows as dark as can be? On top of that, put “thin blue line” stickers on it.
The history denying left (and that includes Larry Hogan) will not be content until all vestiges of the Confederacy are eliminated from society. At that point, it is entirely logical to contend that if the Confederacy never existed, then neither did slavery. Then the perpetual victimhood status of so many blacks can finally be dismissed as nothing more than pure fiction.
I am fine with removing all of the history of the Confederacy if the liberals and African Americans will stop trying to make me feel guilty for something I had absolutely nothing to do with.
Ah, but you are guilty and owe each of them 40 acres and a mule. Pay up!
There’s a lot of money and power to be had utilizing the politics of guilt.
I absolutely LOVE watching all of you losers getting your dixie drawers all in a bunch because BOOHOO you can’t show your racist pride! TOUGH LUCK idiots! Take your flags and choke on them! Every generation you’re dying out, whether you admit it or not the world laughs at your whining, bigoted ways. In the meantime, please feel free to hoist rebel flags from your antennas or wear t-shirts – even do a General Lee paint job if you’re so distressed. Anything that makes you jerks easily identifiable to the rest of us normal folks.
The funniest part of your post is where you call yourself normal. Hahahaha!
I’ve suddenly found myself recalling an essay entitled “The Paranoid Style in American Politics.” Can somebody remind me of the author? I think he also wrote “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life.”
http://www.amazon.com/The-Paranoid-Style-American-Politics/dp/0307388441
FINALLY!! Now there will be NO MORE HATRED IN MARYLAND!! YIPEEEEEE
Yep, and I just saw an elephant fly……
did you and your mom move out of Maryland?
Did you and your mom stop spooning each other?
Hate the dog dribbling state! and the prosecutors who lay with open foaming mouths! The gov is our only enemy.
It is sad to see just how ignorant the residents (or at least those that leave comments on the Patch) are when it comes to the confederate flag. Especially those that believe this is about “political correctness” or ignoring history. The goal of the Confederacy was to protect the institution of slavery. The articles of secession state this clearly, and historians who study this period in history agree, and can provide many, many examples of evidence. The only ones attempting to rewrite history are those making the nonsensical claim that secession was about “states’ rights,” rather than a state’s right to allow slavery.
You are free to fly your confederate flag, just as you are free to fly a swastika, but you should probably at least attempt to understand the heritage and pride you’re so eager to defend and display.
Let’s get rid of the War of 1812 plates while we’re at it. Why do we even care about it anymore?
We care about nothing because by the time our pig infested government is done we won’t have any country or rights left to loose. Please also judges just kill yourself. Please all state attorneys, kill yourself. Please all federal authorities, please kill yourself…I said please! Now please just end your miserable fatass existence. You have reined enough misery and destruction, we don’t need or want you any longer.
Brian Frosh is a Communist. Period. Expect more utterly-leftist bs from this Montgomery County clown.