Webmaster's Note: This commentary is in response to Dave Long's letter regarding the Georgia State Flag which is posted below this commentary.

Dear Editor,
Usually when I read the opinion of people writing letters I try to find something fact worthy that I can agree with. In the case of a letter by Dave Long of Gainesville, there is nothing factual.

Mr. Long poses as a conservative when he more likely is a neo- conservative who takes self-satisfying liberties with the text and intent of the Constitution of the United States as developed and articulated by The Framers.

If he were a "conservative," he would insist on applying the "best governed being least governed" principle to the Georgia flag. Instead, he prefers NOT to allow the people to speak on their choice of a flag, choosing instead to allow a corrupt few (with money of course) to make a decision the people should make.

Quoting Mr. Long, "We have put a flag over the capitol that is exactly like first flag of the Confederacy". Not so. The first flag of the Confederacy had seven stars, representing the original Confederate states. The phony counterfeit flag [see below] Mr. Long attempts to advance as "exactly like" contains thirteen stars. The Georgia Code describing these thirteen stars explicitly describes them as the Betsy Ross stars.

Mr. Long might fool some, but he doesn't fool the true Confederate conservatives who do not recognize Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania and Delaware as members of the Confederacy.

In fact, he insults descendants of the Confederacy by trying to revise history in an attempt to be politically correct and in ascribing motives that simply are not there. No, Mr. Long, Georgia is not exactly like Massachusetts and I hope it never will be. Most conservatives I know agree. I suspect "those people" in Massachussets would disagree with Mr. Long, too.

Since the flag Mr. Long supports received only 14.8% of the votes of Georgia's registered voters, with around 80% refusing to vote without a fair choice, the question begs as to why anyone who claims to be a conservative would refuse to allow the people a fair vote with the 1956 flag included? Real conservatives are not afraid of the people exercising their right of self-determination.

This issue will NOT be resolved until the people vote in a Fair Vote. People who claim to be conservative and thwart the will of the people make it difficult for real conservatives to advance the cause of liberty.

Jeff Davis, GHC Chairman

The 2003 Perdue Counterfeit flag