A US Senator and Democrat in good standing. It if weren't for double standards, the Dems would have no standards at all.
Posted on 05/04/2010 7:20:28 PM PDT by Man50D
A widely regarded Southern symbol of pride and states' rights is standing in the way of would-be Marines in their quest to serve their country – a Confederate battle flag.
Straight out of high school, one 18-year-old Tennessee man was determined to serve his country as a Marine. His friend said he passed the pre-enlistment tests and physical exams and looked forward with excitement to the day he would ship out to boot camp.
But there would be no shouting drill instructors, no rigorous physical training and no action-packed stories for the aspiring Marine to share with his family.
Shortly before he was scheduled to leave Nashville for boot camp, the Marine Corps rejected him.
Now, the young man, who wishes to remain unnamed and declined to be interviewed, has chosen to return to school and is no longer an aspiring Marine.
"I think he just wants to let it go," said former Marine 1st Lt. Gene Andrews, a friend of the man and patriotic Southerner who served in Vietnam from 1968 through 1971. Andrews is a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a group of male descendents of Confederate soldiers. He counseled the young man when he decided to become a Marine.
"He had been talking to me, and he was all fired up about joining," he told WND. "He asked my opinion of it, and I just tried to tell him the truth, good points and bad points."
When the young recruit didn't go to boot camp, Andrews learned of his rejection based on his tattoo of the Confederate battle flag on his shoulder.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Did minutemen kill United States Marines?
The one inescapable fact about the Confederacy no one and ever refute is that the confederacy was created to continue a system where ANY MAN, WOMAN, OR CHILD COULD BE SOLD INTO SLAVERY.
You got it ass-backwards once again....King of England wanted the colonists to be silent slaves to his treasury without representation, counted only to maintain his monetary and political power. The English left with their tails between their legs till they could regroup and come back to impose tyranny again in 1812 rather than accept the terms of their surrender to the United States.
Jeff Davis, Bobby Lee and other defeated DUmocrats followed exactly what the King of England did, maintain slavery by force. They wanted slaves to be counted in order to maintain their money and political power in D.C. while leaving all the people (not just the slaves) with no voice in a representative government. They formed the KKK to reimpose thier tyranny rather than accept the terms of surrender.
Now the modern day DUmocrat want all citizens to be slaves to their political power. Jackass DUmocrats (and the Copperheads who protect their criminal enterprise) are who they have always been...eventually they will be spanked again, regardless of what battle rag they choose to march under.
What’s your opinion of slaveholder George Washington?
“By 1799, when George Washington died, there were 316 slaves living on the estate.”
“Washington could — and did — lead by example. In his will, he arranged for all of the slaves he owned to be freed after the death of his wife, Martha. He also left instructions for the continued care and education of some of his former slaves, support and training for all of the children until they came of age, and continuing support for the elderly.”
http://www.mountvernon.org/learn/meet_george/index.cfm/ss/101/
I have the same opinion of Washington as I have of Grant and Lee, they were all great leaders, not saints.
I know about the press gangs, Indian wars etc, but the point is the US fired the first shots.
In other words, the USA took umbrage at economic sanctions, and took to arms. Just like the Japanese did in WWII at Pearl harbor.
Who was it that started that war again?
Granted the above is from Wiki, but for general information it's as accurate as any. Once it gets political, that's another story, I'll grant.
The whole Wiki article is here.
(BTW, it's depredations on US sovereignty, not depravations.) Though I'm sure soldiers on both sides had their depraved moments... < BG >
It was England whom attempted to free the colonies slaves. Maybe, it's George Washington you dislike?
Furthermore, Your in Oklahoma? Your supporting their 10th Amendment resolutions?
Lincoln didn't understand "State". He believed as Marx, Stalin, Hitler, and Obama. No, it is you, that has it backwards....
Maybe it was depravations. We dunno. Those British sailors were so far from home and all.
In other words he held slaves his entire life.
Are you aware that the Crown offered emancipation to any slaves who would remain loyal to the British? The first American emancipation proclamation was issued by Lord Dunmore, Royal Governor of Virginia, in November of 1775.
I would think that the Confederacy haters and the Lincoln cult should likewise venerate Dunmore and King George III, who fought a losing battle against rebels and secessionists.
He was a Democrat.
The Constitution was a contract between all of the States. The States could leave the Union if their rights were violated; ie the contract was violated. In particular, it was the 10th Amendment that was violated. FYI James Madison,a Virginian is regarded as the author of he Bill of Rights.
To answer your question with a precedent......
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. FYI Thomas Jeferson, a Virginian wrote that.
Southerners always where a whiney bunch.
This coming from a yankee that believes the South should have been penalized from her ability to pay off debt and coerced into fighting her family and communities on the whims and wishes of a dictator.
And your snarky comment was because I said: Sure sounds like opressing and ruining people to me
Be no wonder your liberal yankee breathern think they can call the Tea Parties whiny..... just remember your yankee 0bama elitist kin believe "he won," and can do as they please.
Tyranny don't feel so good when it gets around to you does it?
Bet you're the first to scream about the 10th Amendment and Liberty when it encroaches on your beliefs...........
Maybe you favor the "Second Bill of Rights" the Soviets authored? Your yankee New Yawk brother FDR certainly wanted to implement them. Of course yankees always were a communist bunch.
A US Senator and Democrat in good standing. It if weren't for double standards, the Dems would have no standards at all.
Don’t tell that to the families of my uncles buried in Belgium & Luxembourg.
Perhaps if he had a the Kenyan National Flag tattooed on his shoulder he would have been welcomed with open arms.
I’m sorry, but that’s just not true. I have journals, letters, and diaries, handed down from generation to generation. Maybe I should scan some of them for you to read. Maybe for some Southerners the Confederacy was about keeping slaves, but for most it was NOT. You act like ALL that fought owned slaves and you are just wrong.
Harold Ford Jr. on the campaign trail.
We never noticed.
And what if the other side denies the contract was violated? What made you right and them wrong?
In particular, it was the 10th Amendment that was violated.
How so, exactly?
FYI James Madison,a Virginian is regarded as the author of he Bill of Rights.
James Madison might well be regarded as the author of the whole Constitution, and he wrote, "...I do not consider the proceedings of Virginia in ’98-’99 as countenancing the doctrine that a state may at will secede from its Constitutional compact with the other States. A rightful secession requires the consent of the others, or an abuse of the compact, absolving the seceding party from the obligations imposed by it."
To answer your question with a precedent......
An invalid precedent because all you Lost Causers insist that your actions were legal, while Jefferson and the rest of our Founding Father's knew their actions were illegal and they would have to fight for their independence.
This coming from a yankee that believes the South should have been penalized from her ability to pay off debt and coerced into fighting her family and communities on the whims and wishes of a dictator.
No, from a Yankee who unlike you believes that all the states are equaland that they all have the same rights and protections under the Constitution.
Be no wonder your liberal yankee breathern think they can call the Tea Parties whiny..... just remember your yankee 0bama elitist kin believe "he won," and can do as they please.
Whiney, like I said.
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