Posted on 12/05/2014 12:28:05 PM PST by GIdget2004
I’m in your camp on that one. It’s bad public policy to auction off any kind of advertising or political speech space on license plates — because they are inarguably official state documents. Whatever is depicted on them is a government endorsement of that idea.
Anyone who disagrees with that should try getting a plate with a religious symbol, or the Republican elephant or Democrat donkey. You can’t. Because it’s a government endorsement of those ideas.
But the government should be forced to fly the flag of the rebellion that cost hundreds of thousands of Americans their lives, because “free speech?” How about the flag of Japan? Or Germany?
There is no room in the United States for any flag but the American.
They don’t want to offend anyone. Can’t you read? /s
You’re being too short sigted It was economics. The North was the industrial power, the South agricultural. You should read up on that and come back later. As I mentioned in previous posts, this Civil War stuff has been debated here on FR for months on end. It’s wearisome and tiresome to continue with it. The South lost for whatever. The North won and the Union was preserved. The South still had control over the blacks there and ran Segregation and whatever until the 1960’s. It’s over. Done. Merry Christmas.
The northerners werent fighting to prevent slavery. They fought for other reasons. Most of them probably couldnt have cared less about the slavery issue. Thats a fairy tell.
The northerners werent fighting to prevent slavery. They fought for other reasons. Most of them probably couldnt have cared less about the slavery issue. Thats a fairy tell.
I may be a native Californian, but my mother is a seventh generation Tennessean. I will stack the number of Confederate vets in my family tree against yours any day. Also my knowledge of that terrible war, why it was fought, and who benefited.
In many ways, the South has never recovered. It was folly then and it’s folly now to celebrate the traitors in power who took those farmers to be slaughtered by their own people. And who in turn killed so many of their own countrymen.
To fly that flag is shameful, although legal; to try to force the government of the AMERICAN state of Texas to fly it is the height of historical ignorance — and arrogance.
I have read plenty, you can’t say it wasn’t about slavery. The fear of losing their assets caused the south to take every action in congress to ensure more slave states. Read up and get back to me.
Don’t need your 20th century history refresher, but thanx.
The ratification of the 14th Amendment was required in order for southern states to be readmitted to the union.
“The amendment was bitterly contested, particularly by Southern states, which were forced to ratify it in order for them to regain representation in Congress.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
Here are images of the specialty license plates.
http://txdmv.gov/motorists/license-plates/specialty-license-plates
“The War of Secession is over.”
The idea of secession is in America’s blood. Thomas Jefferson outlined the proper conditions to engage the concept of secession against tyranny in the Declaration of Independence.
You mean they won?????
Yeah. And World War II should be called War of Polish Aggression.
Obviously public schooled. I was home schooled and not limited by liberal texts you may have read.
I LOVE THEM! Now I wish I lived in Texas!
You're welcome to him.
If Robert E. Lee had the access to the resources which Grant had, we would all be saying "Y'all" and drinking sweet tea.
“The losers in war do not get to dictate the terms of their surrender.”
Exactly.The Thadeus Stevens Congress in 1866 passed the first Reconstruction Act. That allowed the military to move into the Southern states and establish military governors - dictatorships.
(BTW, I’m quite impressed by the manner that Stevens stripped President Johnson of his title as Commander-in-Chief.)
The 1866 Reconstruction Act dictated to the southern states that they must vote “yea” for the 14th amendment in order to be allowed back in the Union.
Third mistake so far. Perhaps your homeschooling was in the south where they fought so hard to keep owning people.
Yankee, born in Brooklyn, NYC and now live in Washington state. Nice try. Bye.
Unusual that someone so ignorant of the political pressure from the southern state to maintain slavery was educated in the north. Just goes to show that hit and miss can happen even in homeschooling.
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