Police Officer Fired for Flying Confederate Flag Files Suit
19th December 2016
She may have a very good case for this being a violation of her First Amendment right of free speech. If it’s permissible free speech to burn the U.S. flag, I don’t see how it’s not permissible free speech to fly the Confederate flag.
On the other hand, there is also a very good case for charging her with treason. Treason is defined in the Constitution as ‘levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.’ The Confederacy was certainly an enemy of the United States, and it’s difficult to see how flying its flag is anything other than ‘adhering to’ that enemy. U.S. government officials have traditionally been very accommodating to Confederate irredentism, and this might be an appropriate time to remind people that supporting the Confederacy was, and is, treason.