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Removal of Confederate flags from cemetery sparks controversy [Alabama]
Fox Carolina ^ | May 16, 2015 | Lindsey Rogers

Posted on 05/16/2015 1:32:34 PM PDT by Timber Rattler

A prominent attorney admits to taking flags from the graves of soldiers, a move that's sparked both positive reaction and calls for him to be arrested and disbarred. He's also received death threats and hate mail.

The lawyer says his actions are meant to promote unity.

A bag of small Confederate flags sits at Union Springs City Hall. They were removed from graves at an old Confederate cemetery downtown, behind the Red Door Theater, near the intersection of Highway 82 and North Prairie Street.

Myron Penn pulled up the flags with his family on Mother's Day. Penn, a founding partner at Penn & Seaborn Attorneys at Law in Union Springs, who served as state senator for two terms and as chairman of the Bullock County Commission, says he did it for his 4-year-old son.

“The reason why we picked them up is because the image of the flags in our community, a lot of people feel that they're a symbol of divisiveness and oppression of many people in our community,” Penn said. “Especially with the history that that flag and the connotation and negativism that it brings. I would think that no one in our community would have a problem with this or with my actions at all.”

(Excerpt) Read more at foxcarolina.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: abortion; alabama; battleflag; confederate; dixie; grave; plannedparenthood; sanger; scv; zot
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To: jmacusa

Obviously your ignorance of history extends to the first Klan, which Forrest ordered dissolved in 1869


221 posted on 05/18/2015 4:37:20 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: jmacusa; wardaddy; CatherineofAragon; Salamander

“Hate? Hmmm. I would think that’s your department.”

No surprise that you think that, you used to think that you didn’t have a problem with alcohol either- you thought that the people who objected to your drunken behavior had the problem.

Now as you troll Southern threads spreading insults and generally acting ugly you think the problem lies with people who find you to be an obnoxious jerk. Because you really haven’t changed. You’ve just found another outlet for your old habits.

Drink up mac, there’s more threads for you to spew on.


222 posted on 05/18/2015 8:14:26 PM PDT by Pelham (The refusal to deport is defacto amnesty)
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To: jessduntno

223 posted on 05/18/2015 8:56:51 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

I suspect if he tried that in the local Confederate section of the cemetery, he’d get ventilated.


224 posted on 05/18/2015 8:58:03 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
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To: jessduntno

The hillbillies believe that the fastest way to invite disaster is to remove *anything* from a graveyard.

The belief is *so* strong that I have dropped lens caps while photographing and left them there.


225 posted on 05/18/2015 9:00:10 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
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To: Pelham; jmacusa

You know, jmacusa got a little out of hand on this thread. And he got jumped on pretty hard by a whole bunch of folks. Most took him to task for his statements, whether or not they understood his POV or not.

But no one was enough of a degenerate piece of shiite to attack him about something as personal as alcoholism. No one was a degenerate piece of shiite until you came along. What a complete and utterly despicable thing to do. If you had a gram of shame you would hang your disgusting head.

jmacusa may or may not have been strident in his defense of his point but I have never witnessed a lower bastard than what I’ve seen with you.

You are beneath contempt.


226 posted on 05/18/2015 9:02:24 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Pelham
Molon labe.


227 posted on 05/18/2015 9:02:32 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
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To: rockrr

Actions have consequences.

Don’t start crap if you can’t take crap.

It’s a hard cyber-world.

Grow a thicker skin.


228 posted on 05/18/2015 9:04:28 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
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To: Salamander

My skin is like rhino hide. Pelham’s brain is like a reptile. Stay out of it.


229 posted on 05/18/2015 9:07:27 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: rockrr

Make me.


230 posted on 05/18/2015 9:08:33 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
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To: rockrr; jmacusa

Aw, did I hurt your feelings little boy? Seems like you and the drunk like to dish out garbage but don’t like getting a dose tossed back at you. Well too bad.


231 posted on 05/19/2015 12:00:24 AM PDT by Pelham (The refusal to deport is defacto amnesty)
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To: Pelham

Is he still acting up?


232 posted on 05/19/2015 12:40:05 AM PDT by wardaddy (Dems hate western civilization and GOP are cowards...We are headed to a dark place)
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To: wardaddy

Of course. Trolling dixie threads is his substitute vice. And he’s convinced that he hasn’t got a problem, just like he did with his old habit.


233 posted on 05/19/2015 12:42:56 AM PDT by Pelham (The refusal to deport is defacto amnesty)
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To: Pelham

Sent freepmail


234 posted on 05/19/2015 12:50:18 AM PDT by wardaddy (Dems hate western civilization and GOP are cowards...We are headed to a dark place)
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To: Salamander

I would hazard to say that shooting such an offensive scoundrel would not typically be the remedy in southern etiquette. (Unless, of course, he was defiling the grave of kin, in which case it would be appropriate.)

But horsewhipping would be culturally recognized as the appropriate remedy for something as course as tampering with sacred ground. Sadly, horse whips and the mastery of their use are far less common these days. Acceptable alternatives to horse whips do need some consideration as to their utility.


235 posted on 05/19/2015 6:32:00 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: Pelham

Isn’t anything you can trow at me, except the ranting of a loser defending a lost cause. And for the last time Poindexter I haven’t had a drop of “Oh Be Joyful’’ in 25 years.


236 posted on 05/19/2015 5:50:17 PM PDT by jmacusa (`)
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To: Pelham

No, as I said, been off the booze for 25 years. Yeah, when I was in my cups, I thought I was the center of my own universe and everyone else be damned. But thanks to a wonderful fellowship of people I live life one day at a time. It’s great. And there isn’t you, you odious, hateful worm or anyone on this earth has the right to take my inventory, none but my Higher Power and one day I’l have to stand before HIM and answer from my sins, not you. I don’t have to troll Southern sites bub. If you could get this through your jaded and hateful brain, I don’t hate Southerners. Just Confederates. Don’t ever presume to take my inventory you little troglodyte. You’re way out of your league little Johnny Reb.


237 posted on 05/19/2015 6:03:58 PM PDT by jmacusa (`)
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To: PAR35

What do you do, make up history as you see fit?


238 posted on 05/19/2015 6:04:43 PM PDT by jmacusa (`)
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To: Pelham
I don't have to be convinced of anything when comes to be free of the obsession to drink. Not problem for me. Hasn't been for a quarter of century. Now get back down the floor you bar rag and keep guzzling from the spittoons of your revisionist history Reb. It's all you good for.
239 posted on 05/19/2015 6:38:21 PM PDT by jmacusa (`)
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To: jmacusa

I read history rather that submit to politically correct brainwashing.


240 posted on 05/19/2015 7:06:47 PM PDT by PAR35
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