Posted on 06/30/2015 5:21:21 AM PDT by Raebie
Charleston, SC (WLTX) - The historic site where the first shots of the Civil War were fired is no longer flying versions of the Confederate flag above it.
The U.S. National Park Service ordered all flags to be taken down at Ft. Sumter in Charleston except for the American flag.
The banners that were removed are neither the traditional Confederate flag that's most typically displayed by individuals, nor is it the battle flag version that currently flies in front of the South Carolina State House. Instead, the flags were the less frequently seen national flags of the Confederacy.
The park service also took down the South Carolina state flag.
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“This is a nation of herbivores. There will be no pushback that the Left cannot handle.”
That’s a load of crap. The left sent the fat slobs at SEIU to break up our Tea Party Meeting. They ran like scared rabbits when confronted, locked themselves in a building and bawled like babies for the cops to rescue them.
Fast and Furious - no blowback they couldn’t handle.
Benghazi - no blowback they couldn’t handle.
Newtown, CT - no blowback they couldn’t handle.
Ferguson - no blowback they couldn’t handle.
hardly a man is now alive who remembers that famous day and year
As does one of the supporters of Confederate state slavery.
Does anyone know if the Confederate flags have been taken down at Manassas battlefield?
That's what they got under the Union. I support Independence for anyone who wants it.
And,thanks to the actions of votes cast by illegals, dead people, prisoners, and nursing home staff. And thanks to the post office workers who made sure military ballots didn't get delivered.
Of course you do.
It's run by the Park Service, same as Sumter. If they're not down yet then I suspect it'll just be a matter of time before they are down at Bull Run and every other Civil War battlefield, unless someone in the government comes to their senses.
We have two Civil War battlefields in KC at Lexington and Westport. The Westport site is private and the Lexington battlefield is a state park so I would hope the Confederate flag remains at both of them.
Of course you do.
Especially for myself and my family. You on the other hand need to breath in a great big breath of FedZilla's latest farts, such as Obamacare and Gay Marriage.
In a hundred years, someone like you is going to be insisting that the most important reason to have fought those seeking independence is because "They didn't pay their health care taxes and they denied gays the right to be married!"
It will be their version of "Look! Squirrel!". "Slavery" is your version of it.
Yet you had no problem with Rebzilla's heavy hand of bondage on about a third of it's population. So...freedom for me but not for thee is your mantra?
In a hundred years, someone like you is going to be insisting that the most important reason to have fought those seeking independence is because "They didn't pay their health care taxes and they denied gays the right to be married!"
That would require you and your buddies to go and seced or rebel or actually do something first. I won't hold my breath waiting for that to happen.
Troll much??? Leave it to you to say something negative about the South.
What happened to "heritage, not hate"? Petigru is part of your heritage, like it or not.
So I guess there was no civil war.
It was all just a rumor and those graves are empty.
Why not make Auschwitz a parking lot?
Just thought of something. That murderer, Dylann whatever, must be so happy right now. How horrible we are for letting him win. Those flags didn’t kill the people.
Was it legal while they were in the Union? Yes? Then SHUT THE F*CK UP ABOUT AN EVIL WHICH THE UNION DID TOO!
Til you scream bloody murder at the Union ownership of slaves between 1776 and 1865, you are nothing but a lying hypocrite in expressing your concern for people for whom your cause you did not previously give a sh*t and for whom you had no intentions of doing anything about anyway, that is until you needed an excuse to stop another people's efforts to achieve independence.
Now you keep hammering this "Bait and Switch" Con argument because without your "Squirrel!" you don't have a good argument. As a matter of fact, your side looks pretty D@mn evil. You INVADED other people, not to free slaves, but to slap on chains yourselves!
So...freedom for me but not for thee is your mantra?
You weren't going to give them freedom anyway, so why are you continuing to LIE about it? Stop Lying. Stop twisting the truth. Stop making up justifications to rationalize the evil thing you did.
The Union had no intention of freeing those people until a year after the war had started. This claim is an ex post facto lie, but it is the only thing that you can use as a fig leaf, and that's why it persists.
You don't want real history, because real history shows your side to be in fact very Ugly. You want your made up fantasy history that makes you into the good guys fighting for freedom, even though you weren't.
So it would be just as accurate to identify you as a supporter of Southern state slavery as it is to call me a supporter of Northern state slavery.
You weren't going to give them freedom anyway, so why are you continuing to LIE about it?
Neither were you. So your bleating about seceding in the name of freedom and independence was for only a part of the Southern population.
Accuracy is not at all your goal. The Objective of the North was to "Preserve the Union" not to abolish slavery.
If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Neither were you.
So both sides were in agreement on this issue? So why do you keep bringing it up as justification for an Invasion by the North? If one side was just as bad as the other, why mislead people about it?
So your bleating about seceding in the name of freedom and independence was for only a part of the Southern population.
The part that was no different from the slave holding People of Massachusetts in 1776.
If you can't recognize the right of slave holding Virginia to secede, you can't recognize the right of slave holding Massachusetts to secede either.
My point is the two secessions were exactly alike in terms of slavery. The Secession of 1776 was conducted by a slave holding people, and so was the Secession of 1860.
I contend the people of Massachusetts did not lose their right to secede from the English Union simply because they condoned slavery.
Yes, the Slaves had a right to be free too, but so did those slaves in Massachusetts. Denying one people their rights does not justify denying other people their rights.
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