Posted on 07/08/2015 5:42:33 PM PDT by markomalley
The House has voted to ban the display of Confederate flags at historic federal cemeteries in the deep South.
The low-profile move came Tuesday evening after a brief debate on a measure funding the National Park Service, which maintains 14 national cemeteries, most of which contain graves of Civil War soldiers.
The proposal by Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif., added language to block the Park Service from allowing private groups to decorate the graves of Southern soldiers with Confederate flags in states that commemorate Confederate Memorial Day. The cemeteries affected are the Andersonville and Vicksburg cemeteries in Georgia and Mississippi.
“The American Civil War was fought, in Abraham Lincoln’s words, to ‘save the last best hope of Earth,'” Huffman said in a debate in which he was the only speaker. “We can honor that history without celebrating the Confederate flag and all of the dreadful things that it symbolizes.”
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No, it represented both sides.
No it didn’t because there were not two sides. Slavery was legal in the USA. Some states did not permit buying and selling within their borders, but they weren’t permitted to take slaves away from those who had them. Slaves visiting those states were not free.
I’m going on Facebook and flame our RINO rep as I’m sure he voted for it. I’ll be shocked if he didn’t.
The measure passed on a voice vote after only two minutes of debate.
How long before tshirts are illegal if they have the Confederate flag on it?
Absolutely disgraceful.
The Bill https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/2822 has not passed the House yet.
But the amendment WAS adopted (by voice- no recorded vote) so it’ll probably become law.
JESUS CHRIST!!!!!!!
OUR COUNTRY IS IN THE TOILET AND THIS IS WHAT YOU FU{ERS ARE WASTING YOUR TIME ON???!!!!!!!
EARN YOUR F-ING PAY AND DO THE JOB YOU WERE ELECTED TO DO.
Gutless bastards. I hate them all.
A disgrace.
In other news, Michelle O’Bummer said she was really proud of her country.
I heard some idiots talking about changing the name of Ft Bragg because Braxton Bragg was a Confederate general.
Excising history. Are they really that stupid?
Republicans = RINO = stupid party
Well?
they weren’t permitted to take slaves away from those who had them.
And who had the power to grant or deny that permission?
I wanna where my Rep was on this as well.
Which flag were we under is the discussion at the moment.
However, the court ruled something almost identical to that in Dred Scott, but it had been the practice prior under other rulings/understandings.
So, it was primarily driven by the federal government.
I honestly pray for the opportunity to stick a pitch fork into the hearts of these gutless cowards who are destroying this country. I honestly hate what this country has become.
Thank you for that URL.
My rep just skipped the vote so I went on his Facebook page and helped flame his sorry RINO azz.
The flag does not represent the federal government.
Nor did the confederate flag represent the confederacy. So, they won’t be moved by that argument.
I’m a full on lifelong Yankee but Confederate war dead are legally identical to WWII American war dead, Vietnam American war dead, and Iraq and Afghanistan war dead.
This isn’t like an attack on American war dead, this IS an attack on American war dead.
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