The Confederate flag

[Don Corleone]

Do you have the right to argue for seccession? Absolutely. Do you have the right to argue for violent means to bring it about? No. That flag is a symbol of those who chose the latter route. Now, do you have the right to fly it? I suppose you do, but you shouldn't any more than you should fly a Swastika. The Confederate battle flag only flew over American soil for the brief moments of the Antietam and Gettysburg (and some assorted cavalry raids). It is not an American flag, it is the flag of a nation that initiated a war with the USA and only ended armed conflict by being beaten into total submission. Do you have the right to fly it? Sure. And I have the right to call you a traitor for doing so.