The title for this column may strike you as a bizarre grouping, but recent events make the connection clear.

As I was reading a May 3 column by Mike S. Adams on the subject of campus "speech codes," I noted that Adams refers to a promise he made to radio talkshow host Neanderthal Neal Boortz.

Of course, Boortz is a champion of free speech, as long as we're talking about HIS speech and that of a few others he approves. All others, of course, are subject to his scorn, ridicule and sarcasm. If Boortz were a dictator rather than a radio bigmouth, one wonders whether he would eliminate all free speech except for himself.

I recognize that his whiney griping and railing is just a part of his radio persona and that he considers it his job to make people angry.

Perhaps I'm wrong about Boortz, and he would actually support free speech for others with whom he disagrees. Perhaps he just can't suggest such things for fear of sounding like a "liberal bedwetter." I just find it a contradiction that Boortz can rail about campus free speech for academia and wet-behind-the-ears students and then have a hissy about taxpaying Georgia citizens actually expressing political grievances to their elected representatives.

One form of free political speech that Boortz apparently dislikes is "flagging." Boortz has taken numerous verbal shots at "flaggers," using his own derisive term, "flaggots," with its clearly intended innuendo.

In return, Boortz has received a few retaliatory jabs for his primitive views on flaggers. Boortz and I agree on a number of subjects, such as the ridiculous and offensive nature of college campus "speech codes." These codes are intended to squelch certain "politically INcorrect" free speech in institutions where free speech is ostensibly revered. Clearly, we disagree with regard to our state flag and the citizen protests against the political theft of our honored symbol.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is an organization that ostensibly defends the "civil liberties" of Americans. The ACLU advances all manner of litigation to protect First Amendment rights, such as the rights of women to dance nude in bars, or the rights of pornographers to distribute obscene films and images and the rights of all citizens to have public properties free from any religious reference such as the Ten Commandments, prayers or Christmas nativity scenes. But for some bizarre reason, the ACLU cannot bring itself to defend the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans to own firearms. It takes some intellectual acrobatics to support one and deny the other. Inconsistency is the attribute that the ACLU and Neal Boortz share.

While Boortz champions his own free speech and that on college campuses, he can't bring himself to support free speech by Georgia citizens who seek redress of their grievances, such as those seeking the right to a fair vote on the Georgia state flag (one including the '56 flag).

Most recently, May 1st (the Marxist holiday known as "May Day") to be exact, police in Cobb County decided that free speech was no longer a right of Georgia citizens, at least not citizens with flags on public sidewalks in front of the Marriott Hotel in Cobb County. Cobb County, previously known to be "flagger friendly," abruptly changed its policy and police confiscated several flags and signs that were legally on public sidewalks which are part of public rights of way. As of Monday, the flags and signs have been returned to their rightful owners. There will be no formal apology (or federal charges) for this civil rights violation against the flaggers, but the return of the flags and signs is an admission that the flaggers were in the RIGHT. See the photos below.

Cobb County police seize flags and signs from lawful flaggers on a public sidewalk.

Cobb County police seize flags and signs from lawful flaggers on a public sidewalk

Marriot manager with hand gesture to express his regard for flagger free speech rights