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Congratulations! You Oppose The Confederate Flag. Now What?
The Federalist ^ | 06/23/2015 | Mollie Hemingway

Posted on 06/23/2015 11:13:30 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 06/23/2015 11:13:30 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Once it’s ‘gone’ then what will they blame?.........................


2 posted on 06/23/2015 11:14:53 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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RE: Once it’s ‘gone’ then what will they blame?.........................

White folks who own guns.


3 posted on 06/23/2015 11:16:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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RE: Once it’s ‘gone’ then what will they blame?.........................

White folks who own guns.


4 posted on 06/23/2015 11:16:11 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Incrementalism. Ban the Confederate flag for racism, then do the same to the US flag.


5 posted on 06/23/2015 11:17:12 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Red Badger

Mississippi Votes to Keep Confederate Battle Cross on State’s Flag
http://articles.latimes.com/2001/apr/18/news/mn-52428


6 posted on 06/23/2015 11:17:21 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: SeekAndFind

It is time Hawaii got rid of that oppressive United Kingdom Union Jack flag! The UK Crown lost the war with the United States, it is time to move on. Blah blah blah....

7 posted on 06/23/2015 11:20:09 AM PDT by GregoTX (Remember the Alamo)
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Is no one concerned how fast this ‘meme’ has metastasized into businesses and localities BANNING this flag???

Do few have any worries how something like this is a conditioning effort to do the same with ammunition, guns or other things the media in concert with the tyrannical regime now ruling us decide to blame and ban next?

Or are we just going to shrug our shoulders and say ‘oh well’, it’s just the Confederate flag’???


8 posted on 06/23/2015 11:21:12 AM PDT by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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Help! Help!

The flag of liberal Massachusetts is a white guy stabbing an Indian!

Help! Help!

Racist bastiches in Massachusetts!


9 posted on 06/23/2015 11:21:31 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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The U.S. Civil War was a war that never should have been fought. Some 620,000 men died because slavery, an inhumane and evil practice, was permitted in many portions of this country.

Incorrect in the very first sentence. Five Northern states permitted slavery too, but they didn't have to fight a war.

No, the Civil war was fought to stop independence from Washington D.C. The abolition of slavery was not adopted as a goal of the War until over a year after the war had already been started.

Lincoln was going to allow slavery to continue in the South, so it's hard to argue the war was fought because of the evils of slavery. Apparently it was not considered so evil by Lincoln that he wasn't willing to work a deal to allow it to continue.

People have just been taught history that makes them feel good, as opposed to being taught the unpleasant truth.

10 posted on 06/23/2015 11:22:03 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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Incrementalism. Ban the Confederate flag for racism, then do the same to the US flag.

See California.

11 posted on 06/23/2015 11:22:41 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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12 posted on 06/23/2015 11:23:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Is no one concerned how fast this ‘meme’ has metastasized into businesses and localities BANNING this flag???

Reminds me of the "gay" marriage debate.

They went all the way from being asylum inmates in the 1950s to being a protected class in 2015. They took power one step at a time.

13 posted on 06/23/2015 11:24:38 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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The war was not primarily about slavery. It was based on states rights as the next one is shaping up to be. Slavery was just the match to the fuel.


14 posted on 06/23/2015 11:24:44 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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My reaction is "Oh well, look at all the knee-jerk idiots out there."

It is an amazing sight to behold. People who think they are smart, acting no smarter than trained seals.

15 posted on 06/23/2015 11:26:51 AM PDT by Cboldt
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Slavery was a bad thing. But the Confederacy was a JUST CAUSE because it asserted the right of states to be sovereign and make their own decisions — including about how various groups should be treated.

It won’t be long before a new secessionist movement rises us and states start splitting off. When it happens, we’ll need patriots willing to stand up for it.


16 posted on 06/23/2015 11:28:57 AM PDT by GodAndCountryFirst
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President John F. Kennedy receives the Confederate flag from Democrat Governor of South Carolina Fritz Hollings


17 posted on 06/23/2015 11:29:16 AM PDT by donna (Polls are mob rule . . . faked.)
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White folks, guns or not....................


18 posted on 06/23/2015 11:29:22 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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I am not a confederate flag lover. But I find it strange what gets removed and what does not.

XXX billboards, even near schools: Not removed
Movies characterizing the assassination of presidents or foreign leaders: Not banned or removed.
Blasphemy against Christianity: Not removed
Blasphemy against Islam: Removed (or at least tried to...should according to liberal doctrine)
Crosses: Removed
Perversity: Not removed but rather celebrated
Cigarette advertisements: Removed
U.S. Flag burning: Not removed/banned
Confederate Flag display: Removed
Pornography all over Internet; Not removed/banned
All sorts of horror on Internet; Not removed
Religious groups: At least watched closely and sometimes labeled as “hate groups” by left
Conservative groups: Same as above
SPLC and Muslim Brotherhood: Guest at White House

On and on


19 posted on 06/23/2015 11:30:59 AM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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My reaction is "Oh well, look at all the knee-jerk idiots out there."

Does it not bother you that the majority of all those knee-jerk idiots out there are government rulers or part of the Praetorian media???

Knee-jerk idiots in power have a tendency to initiate genocides.

Laughing at them and saying 'oh well' to ourselves is what the Germans and Italians did in the late 20's and 30s to knee-jerk idiots that ruled their societies.

20 posted on 06/23/2015 11:34:19 AM PDT by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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