Political elitist's views on Auto tags and much more – Commentary by David Anderson

In a recent editorial in the Nashville City Paper (Nashvillecitypaper.com) the editors state that two legislators of the Tennessee General Assembly want to outlaw images of the Confederate flag on license plates, effectively stopping additional specialty plates issued on behalf of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Then the editors come right out and effectively agree with them stating SCV tags represent “the politicization of our license plates.”

First of all, the editors, as well as the legislators, are quite ignorant of the fact that the Sons of Confederate Veterans is a 501c3 organization. This means they are not a political organization; they are indeed a hereditary society made up of descendents of Confederate Veterans and work to preserve the history of those men who fought for the Confederacy.

Several states already have a SCV tag, it started with Maryland where then they had to file in courts to get their tag and the courts agreed since they are a 501c3 organization they can have a tag just like any other 501c3 organization. Then Georgia got theirs (an effort with which I was heavily involved). The North Carolina and South Carolina, ect. The court decision that was handed down in Maryland also helped with the North Carolina and Virginia Court's decisions on their tag and now it helped in Tennessee

There are those who wish to destroy the history and honour due to the Confederate fighting man. There seems to be a continuing and concerted effort in Southern states' General Assemblies to do just that. Last year a small group of Georgia House legislators got together to introduce a bill, the bill was HB899. The bill, as worded, would do away with displaying the Confederate flag on public property (cemeteries) and would also do away with statues, and even the Confederate Memorial carving on Stone Mountain.

The removal of the Confederate flag from atop the capitol in Columbia, SC, was just the beginning, then the change of the Georgia flag, then an effort was made to change the Mississippi flag. Then name changes of streets, bridges and the list goes on and on of those who want to wipe every reference to the Confederacy off the face of the earth. They even tried to ban movies, ‘”Gods and Generals” is the most recent example.

So just who is politicizing the Confederate flag? Well the evidence is clear that there is a group of political elitists who wish to form a Utopian world-view where no one will remember the past deeds of any hero of American history by removing any and all reference to them. Winston Churchill, one of the world's best statesmen, said it best, “No Nation can long survive without pride in its traditions." When we forget where we came from, how do we know where we are going?

David Anderson is Commander of the Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler Camp 863 of the Sons of Confederate Veterans in Conyers, Georgia .

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"People separated from their history are easily persuaded." --Karl Marx

"A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today...The reputation of an individual is of minor importance to the opinion posterity may form of the motives which governed the South in their late struggle for the maintenance of the principles of the Constitution. I hope therefore, a true history will be written, and justice will be done them."
--Gen. Robert E. Lee

"If you don't know history, you don't know anything. You're a leaf that doesn't know it's part of a tree." ---Michael Crichton