Originally Posted by Adraco

The confederate flag is an enemy of the United States. It is very strange that it is allowed on public buildings and in any official context what so ever.
It is the flag of an enemy, that was once and for all defeated.
Free speech is there to give any single individual the right to fly the flag but for it, the enemy flag, to appear in any public setting is just wrong.

I do, however, support the flag being flown privately, especially since it makes "those people" go bananas over just a symbol.