Minn. City Councilman Defends Confederate Flag Outside His Home: ‘My Free Speech’

Let him flag his flag on his property , you don't have to vote for him next time if it bothers you

I can't help but notice that even when dealing with minor issues such as this one, the responses based on ignorance, intolerance, and hate will always outnumber the responses that try to promote reason, understanding, and compromise. Intelligent debate on ANY issue seems to be increasingly impossible in this country. There's no unity in this country on ANYTHING. I fear it's only a matter of time until this country literally tears itself apart.

He does have every right. Though since he is an elected official he does risk being an ex-elected official.

I didn't know that the Confedrate flag had 'REDNECK' emblazoned across it. They must crop it out of all the old Civil War photos.

as a Minnesotan i think it is funny he has a reb flag. Minnesota had a large role in the civil war.

This is not the "Confederate flag." This is "Beauregard's Battle Banner." Please learn some history, folks.

Read the individual Declarations of Causes for Secession which South Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia and Texas issued in 1860-61. They explain their reasons (or more appropriately, their REASON) for seceeding: The threat to slavery posed by the abolitionist movement in the north in general, and the Republican Party and the election of Lincoln in particular. These are the words of the individual state legislatures, explaining their reasons for leaving in the same manner of the Continental Congress in 1776, by listing their grievances and saying they've had enough. Few, if any, of their grievances do not relate, directly or indirectly, to slavery.

I wonder if there would be this flap if he weren't an elected official?

We either have free speech or we don't. Can't have it both ways.

Confederate bigots call all the documented facts they don't like ... The Liberal Media :::

Our most elite fighting units all pass through Fort bragg North Carolina. Somehow Fort Elenoar doesnt have quitwe the same ring too it.

I remember a Fredericksburg battlefield tour where some Rebs were snickering at the monument to the Union officers killed in the final assault. One of my ancestors is on it. "Just another monument to Confederate Marksmanship," they chortled. I objected and was told to be more tolerant and have a sense of humor. Down the road a few miles, we stopped at the site where Stonewall Jackson was accidentally shot by a North Carolina regiment. As the Rebs came forward with their flowers and their solemn expressions, I said loudly, "Yep, just another monument to Confederate Marksmanship." I had to be rescued by the guide and was thrown off the tour.

Having said this, let the moonbat fly his flag.

Abraham Lincoln, the founder of the Republican Party, fought against the Confederate flag ...
Yet, Republicans who brag about how Abraham Lincoln founded the Republican Party, feel the need to show loyalty to the Confederate flag that Lincoln fought against :::

It's his right to display the confederate flag on his private property, just as it's my right to call him an idiot for doing it.

If someone put out a nazi flag, would that be free speech?

All blue with one white star

Let the Confederate bigots tell it ... John Wilkes Booth was a Liberal :::

I don't like it, but I respect his right to display it.

99.9% of the time.....he who cries racist,...either. IS THE RACIST........or some white panzy loser who thinks theyll sound cool.......

The Councilman is absolutely right!