Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 20:35:36 -0500
From: Ted White <tedwhite at compusnet.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Confederate flags
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

lee gilliland wrote:

> It is interesting to compare the American policy on Confederate flags
> with the German policy on Nazi flags.  In the U.S., public and private
> displays of Confederate flags are almost always unconditionally legal.
> Controversy in the U.S. mainly surrounds official government-sanctioned
> use of the flag.  But in Germany, display of a Nazi flag is punishable by
> a heavy fine, and the police respond promptly to any report of a Nazi
> flag on display.
>
> Ron Kean
>
> Please recall, Ron, that Germany does not regard freedom in the same way
> America does.

Then too, Germany suffered at first hand from Hitler and the Nazis and will
not tolerate any repetition.

--Ted White