Posted on 05/22/2016 6:17:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Congress passed a proposal on Thursday that essentially bans Confederate flags from national cemeteries. With a 265-159 vote, the proposal makes it illegal to display the Confederate flag in Department of Veteran Affairs cemeteries – even on individual grave sites that honor soldiers who fought for the Confederacy, except on Memorial Day and Confederate Memorial Day.
Introduced by Rep. Jared Huffman (D) of California, the proposal received support from 84 Republicans and all but two Democrats. Rep. Sanford Bishop (D) of Georgia, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, voted against the amendment, while Representative Betty McCollum (D) of Minnesota voted "present."
Huffman's proposal was added as an amendment to the Veteran Affairs spending bill, and it remains uncertain whether it will become law....
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They should ban the US flag as well because of the oppressive “Black Code” laws the Northern states had that treated negroes as bad or worse than slave holders in the South.
It’s clobberin’ time. This is an issue that desperately needed to be addressed?
Viking2002 wrote: SOMEONE POST A LIST OF THE OFFENDING RINOs............
I agree, but make it an issue. What is the House bill number on this this and why did Ryan let this come up for a vote ? List both sides who voted for this. We got federal agencies running amock and this piece of PC revisionist krap is what they see as important.
I did not compare the CSA to Japan or Germany.
Of course, you're probably too stupid to discern that.
Find a zip code in his district and use that. Your email will be accepted.
The Confederate flag is the flag of treason. So I take it The Stars And Stripes doesn’t suit you, does it?
Your forebears fought to preserve slavery. God Almighty I’m so bloody sick of you Confederates. You started a war and lost. Get over it. Are you an American or a Confederate?
“Your forebears fought to preserve slavery.”
You don’t know jack about my forebears, or why some of them fought for the Confederacy.
My family shed blood on both sides of that conflict, jerkwad.
And for your information, I fly Old Glory outside my house 24/7/365.
FOAD.
I disagree for reasons in my previous posts. Any further comments are not necessary.
I wouldn’t say he’s THE most beloved. But definitely up there.
Washington was absolutely worshipped. For generations.
” . . . in my Texas town, youngsters still fly the confederate flag on their pickups.”
They do it here also. I give them a thumbs-up when I see them and they grin and wave back. :^D
Wow. Irony’s lost on you isn’t it.
I know how the Constitution defines treason. Secession is not treason, not even close. Confederates didn’t divide the nation. They LEFT it — the states that remained in the union were still united.
Secession was partly over slavery, but secession is not war so the Constitutional definition of treason does not apply to secession.
And the fighting did not start over slavery. Lincoln’s proclamation calling for volunteers to come South said nary a syllable about slaves, slavery or freeing. That was tacked on well into the fighting.
You couldn’t possibly be as bloody sick of us as we are of you.
My forebears did not fight to preserve slavery, and most Confederate soldiers did not fight for that. Thousands of their letters prove it. Even McPherson, who is certainly not Confederate friendly, admits that.
A few states seceded in part over slavery — among other things. The states of the upper South seceded because Lincoln tried to coerce them into sending troops to invade the seceded states. See, it’s not as cut and dried as the all-slavery, only-slavery folks like to make it seem.
Moreover, it is open to question that the Confederates started the war. People say “firing the first shot” (at Sumter) started the war, but the firing was in response to aggression (Anderson moving troops into Sumter and threatening Charleston in dispatches sent north, that he knew authorities in Charleston would intercept and read). That aggression, that move to the fort, which preceded the firing and caused it, is what started the war. Without it, there would have been no start.
Am I an American or a Confederate? Yes. There is no “OR”. They’re not mutually exclusive. Confederates were Americans, for the same reason we are ... it is part of our national name, just as it was theirs. See? Fill in the blank: The Confederate States of _______. I’ll give you a hint: it starts with A and it ends with a, and it ain’t Antarctica.
What I am is a Southerner. That is my primary identification — it has been since before I could articulate it — and the South, including its time as a separate nation, the CSA, is what gives meaning to the United States, for me. So in that sense, yes, I’m a Confederate.
Oh please Madame. You can’t be that stupid. They fought to preserve an evil institution of an economy based on the use of slave labor. All their efforts, whether they believed it or not were put to that end. They weren’t fighting in a separate universe so spare me your revisionist history. “Yes what? Are you an American or a Confederate? I’m an American, not a Northerner or a “Yankee’’. My allegiance to this great nation is not predicated on a particular point on a compass. Get used to me. As long as you Rebs go on with your nonsense I’ll be here to speak for my ancestors.
Good God you live in your own world. I’ve never heard such twaddle in all my life.
You don’t venture out past your indoctrination much, do you?
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