Confederate flag near Walpole HS sparks debate

WHDH - TV ^ | 5/25/2010

[major-pelham]

I remember the Walpole uniforms, great teams too. Todd Collins probably wore that uniform. It’s just like a throwback jersey. The guy’s right - screw ‘em.

[Kozak]

What part of PRIVATE PROPERTY do the pinheads not understand?

[faucetman]

It’s just a flag. Fly it proudly. Never mind the PC idiots.

[spintreebob]

Since the Brits, Spanierds, Germans, Japanese, Mexicans, etc have been our real enemies in other wars, it would be interesting if the same divisiveness existed with the display of their flags.

[rhombus]

A lawyer for the school system who helped draft the statement said there is not much the school can do, because government entities are prohibited by law from abridging a private citizen’s right express himself or herself.

Well, right now anyway. ;-)

[AppyPappy]

If it were porn, liberals would tell you to look away. If it is a Confederate Flag, liberals say they can’t look away.

[JamesA]

Fly that flag

[Altura Ct.]

The fact that this is happening is MA is a particularly nice twist.

Go Rebels!

[Vaquero]

Property Rights

1st amendment Rights???

these rights are only for the ‘right’ people...You know??? the ones on the LEFT.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Property owner Joe Finneran says he does not want to remove the flag.

Wonder what his Freeper screen name is?

[Hugin]

A lawyer for the school system who helped draft the statement said there is not much the school can do, because government entities are prohibited by law from abridging a private citizen’s right express himself or herself.

The fact that a lawyer had to explain this indicates the school system has much bigger problems. Like teaching civics.

[RoadTest]

Out of all the things that flag stands for, the race-baiters rip out slavery and trumpet it before the gullible.

America is the least guilty of slavery out of all the world and is responsible for putting an end to it (not that it doesn’t still exist elsewhere).

[Shimmer1]

Like a petition should abrogate his Constitutional rights. The little darlings’ parents are probably proud of them. ack!

[Past Your Eyes]

What a bunch of horse pukky. I'd like to say "Only in Massivetushes" but of course that's not true. "It basically represents racism," added Ara Nerssessian."

Blow it out your tailpipe, Ara. Study this. Twit.

[Tarpon]

The Confederate flag, considered by many to stand for the Old South’s Democrats Old South fight for slavery

There just added the missing word. Just see the Democrats 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act to understand what started the Civil War. Weird that it's so hidden in modern day history books. It was passed back when the Democrats had a super majority and the Presidency -------

[PanzerKardinal]

Just curious why a high school in Massachusetts would use the Battle Flag of the C.S.A. as its symbol and calling itself “The Rebels”.

Sort of like a high school in Georgia or South Carolina calling itself “Sherman’s Marchers”.

Wonder what the 14,000 Massachusetts men who died in the Civil War would think of all this?

[rhombus]

I heard it through the grapevine
My new neighbor don’t like my big red barn
A ‘47 Ford, bullet holes in the door
Broke down motor in the front yard
I got half a mind to paint a plywood sign
And nail it up on a notty pine tree
Saying I was here first
This is my piece of dirt
And your rambling don’t rattle me

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[cowboyway]

We should do away with all symbols that are offensive to anyone starting with this one:

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

If it were porn, liberals would tell you to look away.

Look away, look away, Dixie Land. Nothin' like dem old cotton fields down home in Walpole, home of Massachusetts' largest prison, Massachusetts Correction Institution Cedar Junction, previously known as MCI Walpole, but the locals had them change the name because it hurt property values.