Stars and Bars

A frightening number of people in what was once known as the Party of Lincoln, some even members of Congress, apparently have a deeper affection for the Stars and Bars or, rather, its battle flag.

The Macon-Bibb County Commission voted to relocate the Confederate monument, although that plan has been postponed by a lawsuit filed by a group called the Military Order of the Stars and Bars.

The Stars and Bars could exist as just another image decontextualized and propagated through the internet's airless corridors like, say, Che Guevara.

Plaintiff Martin Bell, the state commander of the Military Order of the Stars and Bars Georgia Society Inc. sued Macon-Bibb County in state court, but included federal claims.

The policy did not actually address the specific flag but instead laid out criteria for which banners could be flown — criteria that the Confederacy’s “Stars and Bars” did not meet.