Ban on Confederate flags
The city of Muncie, Indiana runs a campground outside of town, and after complaints, the city sought to clean it up a little. One aspect the city wanted to remove was the flying of the Confederate flag by longtime users of the camp. The Indianapolis Star reports today:
The city created the ban on all flags except the American and POW/MIA flags at the Prairie Creek Reservoir campground in response to complaints that it has become a taxpayer-subsidized, semi-permanent trailer park nicknamed “Springerville” after the Jerry Springer television show.
One of the longtime users and flyers of the Confederate flag, Tommy Wallace (known as the “mayor” of “Springerville”) has now filed suit (with the help of the Indiana Civil Liberties Union) in US District Court in Indianapolis, asserting that the ban violates his First Amendment Right to freedom of speech. I think this ban will be short lived.
