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July 4 crowds ignore call to boycott Georgia park over Confederate flag
Rueters ^ | 7/5/2015

Posted on 07/05/2015 3:58:54 AM PDT by Altura Ct.

STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (Reuters) - Fourth of July holidaymakers ignored a call to boycott Georgia's Stone Mountain Park, known as the "Confederate Rushmore," over its display of the contentious Confederate flag.

Hundreds of people had staked out spots at the 3,200-acre (1,295-hectare) privately run park by noon on Saturday for nighttime laser and fireworks shows. They shrugged off heavy rain on the park's busiest day of the year as well as the boycott call.

Democratic state Representative LaDawn Blackett Jones this week urged people to stay away from the park 10 miles (16 km) east of Atlanta because it flies three flags of the pro-slavery Confederacy alongside the U.S. and Georgia state flags.

Bobbie Smith of Fitzgerald, Georgia, who was camping at Stone Mountain with her family, called the boycott call "just stupid."

“This whole park is a Confederate memorial. If you don’t have the flag here, where on Earth would you put it?” she said.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Georgia
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To: ExCTCitizen

Naw, but they love y’all up here. If Maine wasn’t part of New England, it would be in the Ozarks.


21 posted on 07/05/2015 6:20:54 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Men need a reason to shop. Women need a place.)
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To: WHBates
The SC Confederate memorial was itself a compromise to the Left. They bitched about the flag being on the state capitol building, so an agreement was made for the memorial.

Just goes to show you, it's never enough with the Left.

22 posted on 07/05/2015 6:21:18 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Altura Ct.
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Karen Cooper approves the Confederate flag.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3307710/posts

23 posted on 07/05/2015 6:23:20 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Vigilanteman

What you said. I would add tragic to my description of the Civil War.


24 posted on 07/05/2015 6:30:17 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Men need a reason to shop. Women need a place.)
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To: cripplecreek

Bttt


25 posted on 07/05/2015 6:33:59 AM PDT by Guenevere (If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do........Psalms 11:3..An Appeal to Heaven)
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To: Altura Ct.

Thanks to ladawn for keeping the crime down at the park.


26 posted on 07/05/2015 6:34:14 AM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

You just cannot compromise with the communists and that is truly what they are.


27 posted on 07/05/2015 6:46:33 AM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Altura Ct.
LaDawn Blackett Jones

Oh, come on. If you gave that name to a black character in a dystopian white-power novel, you would be accused of parody. . . There is much to understand about people.

28 posted on 07/05/2015 6:59:39 AM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: Altura Ct.

People are tired of their lives being altered by loud mouthed arrogant self-important minorities. They’re sick of eing told what they should say and what they should think. A big upraised middle finger to dee revin (lying SOS) Al and dee revin (shake down whitey) Jesse and all of the black manufactured grievance industry


29 posted on 07/05/2015 7:09:21 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: HANG THE EXPENSE

Do not have much admiration for SC since that was where this all started back in Civil War Days. Over 600,000 American lives lost is a tragedy. That being said, this flag issue is a misdirected effort on behalf of those who are on a forced march to destroy this country. It is another wedge issue they will shamelessly use to degrade the fabric of America in order to destroy it. There are many offensive items and concepts around us constantly. Most of us deal with that in an educated and mature manner. Evil doers utilize emotion and hysteria. We must, and will use logic and reason.That is our dilemma.


30 posted on 07/05/2015 7:10:00 AM PDT by tenthirteen
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To: Altura Ct.

The only relic that should be boycotted is peanut brain Jimmy Carter.


31 posted on 07/05/2015 7:11:09 AM PDT by WyCoKsRepublican
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To: cripplecreek

I love it.


32 posted on 07/05/2015 7:14:28 AM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Vigilanteman

You’ve got remember the Civil War generation was not very far removed from the Revolution. The South foresaw the onset of a strong centralized govt......just like the one they had fought a generation ago.

The view from a large part of the South was....”We just fought against a strong govt....telling us what to do, taxing us, etc.....and now we are setting up the same thing....no thanks”

Anyway, that is the way it was taught to me.


33 posted on 07/05/2015 7:22:43 AM PDT by vmivol00 (I won't be reconstructed.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

...it’s never enough with the Left.

***
Amen!


34 posted on 07/05/2015 7:38:48 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: Altura Ct.

BTTT


35 posted on 07/05/2015 7:39:22 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: WyCoKsRepublican
peanut brain Jimmy Carter.

An insult to peanuts everywhere

36 posted on 07/05/2015 7:44:02 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Gaffer
Some say. Studies say... Some call for.......

I know!!! I always just assume it is people in the lunchroom at the leftist paper or the other bloggers or friends of the writer.

37 posted on 07/05/2015 7:44:49 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: Altura Ct.

Flag haters are RACIST and need an education especially when you talk about South Carolina. We love our family Confederate Hero Veterans. Those killed and those wounded.

Confederate Soldiers are American Veterans by Act of Congress
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/04/14/confederate-soldiers-are-american-veterans-by-act-of-congress/

I honor A L L Veterans of A L L wars.
Especially my family’s Confederate War Heroes that were killed or wounded.
Fly the flag high and proud.

Hurts someones feeling? To dam bad.


38 posted on 07/05/2015 9:36:31 AM PDT by triSranch
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To: tenthirteen
It never sleeps and eternal vigilance is required. Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.
39 posted on 07/05/2015 9:39:45 AM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: vmivol00

You were taught correctly and I teach mine the same way. Battle flag is all that flies here from now on.


40 posted on 07/05/2015 9:42:57 AM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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