Citizens of Osceola, Mo., demand the renaming of the Jayhawk, claiming the name of the loveable KU mascot has ties to a domestic terrorist group.

As reported by the Columbia Daily Tribune, the Osceola Board of Aldermen passed a resolution Tuesday, in observance of the 150th anniversary of the 1861 raid of Osceola. On this day, U.S. Sen. Jim Lane and the Kansan “jayhawkers” attacked the city as an act of the Civil War. The resolution suggests the University stop using the name Jayhawk in reference to the mascot and all sports teams.

The resolution claims that present day KU alumni and citizens of Kansas “have willfully, wantonly and recklessly disregarded the above-mentioned occurrence.” It also states that continued use of the Jayhawk is a “celebration of this murderous gang of terrorists by an institution of ‘higher education’ in … a brazen and malicious manner.”

The list of resolutions includes a request that no citizen of Osceola or alumni of the University of Missouri capitalize the “K” in Kansas or KU because these words are “neither a proper name or a proper place.”

University Relations spokeswoman Jill Jess was quoted in response to the resolution.

“A Jayhawk is a blue bird with a red head and a big yellow beak that wears boots. It would be hard to confuse it with anyone with terrorist intent, though we admit we have been terrorizing the Tigers on the basketball court for some time. Tigers have been known to kill people. Bears, too.”