Posted on 05/22/2016 6:17:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Congress passed a proposal on Thursday that essentially bans Confederate flags from national cemeteries. With a 265-159 vote, the proposal makes it illegal to display the Confederate flag in Department of Veteran Affairs cemeteries – even on individual grave sites that honor soldiers who fought for the Confederacy, except on Memorial Day and Confederate Memorial Day.
Introduced by Rep. Jared Huffman (D) of California, the proposal received support from 84 Republicans and all but two Democrats. Rep. Sanford Bishop (D) of Georgia, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, voted against the amendment, while Representative Betty McCollum (D) of Minnesota voted "present."
Huffman's proposal was added as an amendment to the Veteran Affairs spending bill, and it remains uncertain whether it will become law....
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
Here we go again. Back on our heels.
According to my congressman it DOESN’T ban the private placement of confederate flags.
Maybe we should pass a law saying that congressmen should be banned from cemeteries, but thrown into dumpsters instead.
I love how the Obama administration is bringing us all together. /s
The plan to re-write history and make believe the Civil War never occurred is surging forward, full speed ahead. I wonder if the day is coming when nobody will be allowed to have any southern pride any more.
Squishy cowards all.
Insofar as Southern implies White, I’d say he’s going there.
Even for Confederate soldiers. How fascist.
“Huffman’s amendment is mostly symbolic and applies only to instances in which Confederate flags are flown on flagpoles over mass graves. The amendment would not ban the display of small Confederate flags placed at individual graves. Such displays are generally permitted on Memorial Day and Confederate Memorial Day in the states that observe it.”
Can’t find the text.
Squishy cowards all.
That has to be an error. I think they meant only two Democrats voted against the measure. I would be interested to know why a black congressman was against it.
can we ban the homo flag as well?
what about the isis flag?
Just wait till the DemWits figure out CSA is shown on their grave markers in National Cemeteries.
That included a Lotta GOP votes.
They already have. They say the Republicans where the slave masters, the KKK, the Jim Crow legislation pushers and the ones who blocked civil rights.
I don't know about you, but I've had it.
Members of the gang of 535 should be in federal prison. (Here’s just 1 grievance in a long list of grievances)
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder. - Bastiat
6. But the grand nostrum will be a public debt...
7. It must not be forgotten that the members of the legislative body are to have a deep stake in the game. This is an essential point, and happily is attended with no difficulty. A sufficient number, properly disposed, can alternately legislate and speculate, and speculate and legislate, and buy and sell, and sell and buy, until a due portion of the property of their constituents has passed into their hands to give them an interest against their constituents…
/Freneau
The most evil government in the history of the republic.
Banning our heritage?
FUCONgre$$
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