Posted on 03/22/2015 12:28:41 PM PDT by PROCON
Texas commemorates the Confederacy in many ways, from an annual celebration of Confederate Heroes Day each January to monuments on the grounds of the state Capitol in Austin. Among the memorials is one that has stood for more than a century, bearing an image of the Confederate battle flag etched in marble.
But you're out of luck if you want to put that flag on your license plate. Texas says that would be offensive.
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My great grandfather (my grandfather’s father) was born in 1835 and fought with Indiana in the Civil War. That said, my sympathy is with the smaller government, free to choose your destiny southern side.
Nope. Not racist. Despise slavery and wish it had never been allowed in the USA. I think much of what our country has suffered is God’s punishment of us for tolerating it as long as we did.
But most of the infringements on my rights to believe what I want, including the rights to say what I think and to act on my beliefs, was defeated when the North won the Civil War. It established the supremacy of the Federal Government over any state government, and the principle that no state could withdraw from the “Union”, even if that is what the 13 colonies did during the American Revolution 80 years earlier...
Slavery was universal before William Wilberforce made moralistic arguments against it and passed a bill in Parliament to abolish it in the British Empire. But his arguments were never as severe as what we've heard in this country, especially in the 1850's when Abolitionists raged against a seemingly immovable political and economic pillar of the South.
The modern use of severe condemnations of the South has been as I posted above, as hate-propaganda against Southern rejection of liberalism and its poisonous ideas, intended to split conservatives just as we've seen on this board.
Reflect, if you will, on the fact that England and Brazil didn't have to kill a million people (600,000 of them on the battlefield) to abolish slavery and substitute some other system. The disparity between their experience and ours will tell you that something else has been at work in America.
Too bad people are not taught history and further ... remember it.
So much nonsense in so few words.
Good points. Remembering history is great but using neoConfederate logic shouldn’t German Americans be allowed to celebrate the Nazi flag...its part of their heritage...
Which pales next to the number of white and other non-black people murdered since 1984, when the "crack wars" started and YBM's started "murdering out" in numbers. From 1984 to 1994, when the "wars" started to die down, 6000+ nonblacks per year were being murdered by young black men. That's just a fact.
The Justice Department, under Janet Reno and Bill Clinton, tried to obscure the fact by assigning 1/4 of all "nonblack" victims' murders to "unknown" perpetrators ... these were officially called "stranger murders" since there were often no traditional ties and links detectives could follow to discover a perpetrator. But comparison with other violent crimes in which the victims survived shows who the "unknown" perps were: YBM's.
About the same. I get a really bad flash when I see de blasio, schumer and some of the others!
Should your car horn be allowed to play “Dixie”? I say yes. :-)
Should your car horn be allowed to play “Dixie”? I say yes. :-)
TRIGGER ALERT
Oh, and look at this:
Cognitive dissonance much?
They're all American flags, every one. Not a British or a Mexican or a German flag in the bunch, unless you're counting the colonial flags as "British".
You are certainly entitled to your opinion. But to force your opinion on others is as reprehensible as anything this regime has conjured up in the bowels of Hades. The Confederate battle flag is as much a part of our history as the Gadsden Flag or the Fort McHenry flag. Ignore your history and you will be condemned to repeat it.
Do you really believe the 50 star, 13 stripe flag is the American flag. I disagree most strenuously. America ceased to exist the day the half breed boy first turned his back on the Constitution. We now live in Acirema, where the guilty are rewarded and the innocent are punished. Fly the flag if you must; but be sure it is upside down. For if the republic were ever in danger, it is today.
Nitpicky, but I am curious about the grammar. Your sentence reads well, but I wonder if "If the republic WAS" is better grammar, since it is a singular object.
We sang "Dixie" everyday, IIRC.
Thomas Jefferson
“Your sentence reads well, but I wonder if “If the republic WAS” is better grammar, since it is a singular object.”
“Were” is correct. It isn’t about the singular object. He is positing a situation that may or may not exist. Is the republic in danger? Opinions vary. When you’re just supposing, the correct tense is the subjunctive.
“If I were you, I would ask for a raise” is the same construction. I’m not you. Contrary to fact. But if I WERE you, here’s what I would do.
I'm a direct descendent of a Union soldier and I have no problem with the southern battle flag........In fact, I respect it!
It fact, most of the political correctness surrounding this symbol of the South evolved to all the other shit such as teams names coming under attack by the leftists idiots.......
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