U.S. Marines boot recruits with Confederate tattoos

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | May 04, 2010 | Chelsea Schilling

[Jack Hydrazine]

I wonder if tattoos promoting jihad are allowed?

[IYAS9YAS]

Great Bratian never attacked the United States, where did you go to school?

Look up "The Star Spangled Banner" and the war that inspired it.

Before that, there was the conflagration we refer to as "The Revolutionary War." Now, Britain may not have "attacked" the United States at that point (due to the fact the colonies were not yet "The United States"), but they certainly attacked colonists, a whole list of the nefarious deeds were addressed in the Declaration of Independence.

[muawiyah]

No, Abraham Lincoln was a close family friend. His mother and sister are buried on land that belonged to us.

You will find I am intolerant to the point of violence in the face of insults to Abraham Lincoln.

[386wt]

...despise the Confederacy...

You sound like a damn yankee.

[wardaddy]

these threads always show the sorry state of conservatism

[Jack Hydrazine]

Allowed or not?

[narses]

Nonsense. Why was Jeff Davis never charged with any crime then?

[eyedigress]

The South is the Confederacy. The reasons were wrong 100 years before but the rights were right a 100 years later. get a grip, it isn’t that hard.

[Lando Lincoln]

Uh oh...

[IYAS9YAS]

where did you go to school?

I'm curious, where did you learn your "facts"?

[Crim]

You forget the /sarc tag?

[Crapgame]

Where did YOU go to school. Ever hear of the War of 1812? Great Britain did indeed attack the United States. Burned down the White House and set the President to runnin’....

[Altura Ct.]

No wonder the GOP and our nation is in such a mess. This has absolutely nothing to do with who attacked whom. This is strictly racial grievance BS and if you think it will stop here as we become more multicultural and more left leaning you better get your head out of your ass. Slavery and ‘racism’ is the battering ram to destroy all that is white and Western in the US. The founders and much of American history up until about 1960 are all fair game particularly since most whites cower in fear over being white and our history. It is only a matter of time before the Marxist fixate on Washington, Jefferson et al just as the Confederacy and Christopher Columbus are now. They have it easy in destroying our nation too because so many whites want to help.

[vetvetdoug]

If it weren't for the bravery and guts of Southerners, the North and West would be speaking German or Japanese. It is incontrovertible fact that most of the military men of this nation come from the former eleven states called the Confederacy. I saw a study once and even into the 1990’s the majority of military men and women came from the old South. The Marines by taking this action are cutting themselves off from a group of men that would honor the Marines. Political correctness run amok.

[omegadawn]

The British attacked us in the war of 1812( burned Washington). We won. When the “civil war” started the Confederate States of America was a soverign nation. President Buchacann( 15 th President) ordered a peaceful transfer of all Union bases in Confederate states to Confedercy. When lincoln became President a few months later he ordered a secret attack against Confederate forces to start a war to reunite the nations. p.s 75% of federal budget came from taxes on the south, guess what really started the war, MONEY Should the south be denied the right to have pride in their History.

[muawiyah]

I wasn't around at the time. On the other hand high ranking Republicans sought to avoid "disgracing" Davis because, as it turns out, his wife was/had been Zachary Taylor's daughter (a Whig President) and, as a Senator, he opposed secession.

Later on in American history, to achieve peace rather than vengeance, Harry Truman approved of Hirohito retaining his position as Japanese Emperor.

These are difficult decisions at the time, and sometimes the reasons behind them get lost to history.

[wardaddy]

damn you are stupid.

meanwhile...what about the Mex flag...they attacked us too?

guarantee you that is in the Marines

and btw for the resident Yankee pillow biters here...southerners were your kin till you tried to walk on them so kiss my ass with that “we were a foreign power” talk

and we had no desire to conquer the US...just be separate from yer dumb self righteous asses

and from the looks of how things have turned out since...we were mostly right

you guys are still the most screwed up part of the country

[narses]

And Lincoln suspending the Constitution? Arresting legislators? Printing fiat money?

[muawiyah]

This is not the first time this has happened. There are Marines serving today who have had "offending" tattoos covered over with more appropriate material.

My father had thought he would go into the Navy or Marines so he ended up with a tattoo showing a globe an anchor.

Instead he found an opening in the Army Air Corps and had the globe and anchor over written with a gigantic eagle with a shield holding arrows, etc. in his talons.

All things are possible grasshopper. This young man can get into the Marines if he really wants to and prizes his patriotic ardor more than his tattoo.

[muawiyah]

All good stuff. Man had a war to fight and slaves to free.