Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 12:00:35 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: Samuel Lubell <lubell at cais.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Confederate flags
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

At 08:25 PM 4/2/02 -0500, 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.

Not to mention learning many of the wrong lessons from WWII.  Germans want
to prevent the spread of Nazism by cracking down on would-be Nazis as
opposed to the US where we give unpopular groups like Nazis, freedom of
speech and the ACLU is willing to defend their marches.