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Race Baiting Alabama Councilman Plies Faux Outrage Over Confederate Flags on Graves
Publius' Forum ^ | 4/25/09 | Warner Todd Huston

Posted on 04/25/2009 7:13:00 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus

The cool thing about attacking someone that's been dead for over 100 years is that they can't fight back. The other cool thing is that you can use them to fuel your race baiting so that you can get some cheap publicity, get noticed, or play the faux "civil rights leader" on TV.

Such is the case in Auburn, Alabama where a city councilman decided to get noticed by ripping tiny Confederate flags from the graves of long-dead Confederate veterans buried in a local cemetery. Shockingly those flags were placed there on Confederate Memorial Day. Who wouldda thunk it, eh? Confederate flags on Confederate graves on Confederate Memorial Day! Shocking, I know.

Despite that this has been going on for well over 100 years, this councilman puffed himself up to being "offended" because he claimed he was a "civil rights leader." He said that the tiny flags made him feel that the cemetery was "like a Klan rally or a skinhead rally." He put on his showy high dudgeon claiming that the tiny flags are "intimidating to black folks." Yes, he, an elected official, is "intimidated."

Blah, blah, blah, etc., etc...

Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...


TOPICS: Government; History; Politics
KEYWORDS: alabama; civilwar; csa; dixie
Um, did this guy miss that the war ended like 144 years ago?? And what the hell is with that jacket he's wearing, anyway?
1 posted on 04/25/2009 7:13:00 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
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To: Mobile Vulgus

He should be prosecuted for theft.


2 posted on 04/25/2009 7:14:43 AM PDT by pnh102 (Save America - Ban Ethanol Now!)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

The guy offends me by him being so ignorant.


3 posted on 04/25/2009 7:17:28 AM PDT by jerri
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To: Mobile Vulgus
What an odd day this is going to be.
I wake up and find I am on the same side with the Neo Confederates about something.

The guy should be charged with theft and, if the local statutes are there, desecration of gravesites-multiple counts.

These men should have little Confederate flags on their graves. If I was there I would replace them myself.

4 posted on 04/25/2009 7:18:04 AM PDT by IrishCatholic (No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

I wonder if he has the same outrage over the Democrat party’s terror wing, the KKK, and the way they used to lynch blacks to keep the down on the farm.

Probably not. It’s all about the flags of the Democrat party ... Hey, how does that work again? Wasn’t it Democrat governors who stood in the school house door and put the Confederate flags on the State Capital domes?

Obviously, he isn’t a student of history.


5 posted on 04/25/2009 7:19:13 AM PDT by Tarpon (You abolish your responsibilities, your surrender your rights.)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

Racial intimidation is against the law and this man should be arrested, arraigned and imprisoned for a long time. On the left there is a movement to criminalize speech, if the succeed in passing such a horror, every race baiting college prof who hates whitey and teaches that shniz should be fired and the endowmment that funds that program should be divided up amongst the victims.


6 posted on 04/25/2009 7:19:21 AM PDT by junta (Not even respectable mainstream conservatives can save liberalism.)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

Well, this guy managed to get himself noticed!

Noticed for being a ... BIGOT
Noticed for having ... NO TASTE IN CLOTHING
Noticed for ... DESCECRATING the GRAVES of Military INdividuals
Noticed for Destruction of Private Property (I am assuming those flags were “Not his to do with as he pleased”

Just because our white ancestors did some DUMB things in the past.. does NOT GIVE YOU THE RIGHT TO BE A RACIST SONOFAB****!!!


7 posted on 04/25/2009 7:20:46 AM PDT by gwilhelm56 (Orwell's 1984 - To Conservatives, a WARNING - to Liberals, a TEXTBOOK!)
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To: jerri

**The guy offends me by him being so ignorant.**

I’m more OFFENDED by that JACKET!!!!

/sar


8 posted on 04/25/2009 7:22:06 AM PDT by gwilhelm56 (Orwell's 1984 - To Conservatives, a WARNING - to Liberals, a TEXTBOOK!)
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To: stainlessbanner

Dixie ping


9 posted on 04/25/2009 7:37:06 AM PDT by kalee (01/20/13 The end of an error.... Obama even worse than Carter.)
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To: pnh102

This is trespassing and vandalizing private property if not actually desecration of graves.

The smirking homie needs to be publically warned that the cemetery is now being watched and he risks having that smirk slapped clear off his face if he is caught desecrating in future.

Or maybe he invades that cemetery with a police escort.


10 posted on 04/25/2009 7:49:32 AM PDT by elcid1970
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To: IrishCatholic
"What an odd day this is going to be. I wake up and find I am on the same side with the Neo Confederates about something."

I think that no less than William T. Sherman would slap the dog snot out of this asshole.

11 posted on 04/25/2009 7:51:59 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: pnh102

Grave desecration


12 posted on 04/25/2009 7:58:25 AM PDT by Kenton (BUCK OFAMA!)
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To: Mobile Vulgus
As a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, I'm not too happy about his actions. Whether he likes it or not, there was a Civil War, and there was a Confederate States of America. This guy is looking for attention. As much as I would like to say that we should ignore him, I am certain that he must have violated numerous laws by his action. He should be prosecuted, and I hope that the SOCV take action. I pay $50 per year to the SOCV for those flags, and I consider what he did as a crime.
13 posted on 04/25/2009 8:54:29 AM PDT by Nosterrex
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To: Nosterrex

Hate crime


14 posted on 04/25/2009 9:14:17 AM PDT by junta (Not even respectable mainstream conservatives can save liberalism.)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

The Freaking Negro should not have left the cemetery by his own power....


15 posted on 04/25/2009 9:21:44 AM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

Remember a couple years ago a US citizen was charged with a crime of destroying property when he dismantled a Mexican flag? Why isn’t this guy being charged?


16 posted on 04/25/2009 9:28:20 AM PDT by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925; Foreigners 2008)
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To: AuntB
The only reason that this councilman was not arrested is because he is BLACK! If a white man had done this, he would be accused of racism and hate crimes. It would have made the national news.

If you listened to a video of this bigot, he is about as ignorant as they come. We live in a two class society, namely Negroes and all the other races. If you are black, the law does not apply to you. It is only for white people.

17 posted on 04/25/2009 5:37:34 PM PDT by Nosterrex
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To: elcid1970

If he had desecrated my family member’s grave, he’d eat that flag he stole.


18 posted on 04/25/2009 6:40:52 PM PDT by DeLaine (Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. (MLK))
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To: DeLaine

No, rescue that flag!

Then thrash the desecrator to within an inch of his life.


19 posted on 04/26/2009 3:26:53 PM PDT by elcid1970
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To: elcid1970

Well. I am a gurrrrrl. (woman) I don’t usually beat up little boys (men) Even weinies that scream to be hurt bad.


20 posted on 04/26/2009 4:08:41 PM PDT by DeLaine (Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. (MLK))
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