Congress votes to ban Confederate flags from VA cemeteries

The Christian Science Monitor ^ | May 22, 2016 | Madison Margolin

[DIRTYSECRET]

Here we go again. Back on our heels.

[mrsmith]

According to my congressman it DOESN’T ban the private placement of confederate flags.

[Cicero]

Maybe we should pass a law saying that congressmen should be banned from cemeteries, but thrown into dumpsters instead.

[Gay State Conservative]

COURT CHALLENGE!!!!!

[sparklite2]

I love how the Obama administration is bringing us all together. /s

[Old Grumpy]

The plan to re-write history and make believe the Civil War never occurred is surging forward, full speed ahead. I wonder if the day is coming when nobody will be allowed to have any southern pride any more.

[lurk]

Squishy cowards all.

[combat_boots]

Insofar as Southern implies White, I’d say he’s going there.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Even for Confederate soldiers. How fascist.

[mrsmith]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/congress/house-would-ban-confederate-flags-on-va-cemetery-flagpoles/2016/05/19/27868adc-1dd6-11e6-82c2-a7dcb313287d_story.html

“Huffman’s amendment is mostly symbolic and applies only to instances in which Confederate flags are flown on flagpoles over mass graves. The amendment would not ban the display of small Confederate flags placed at individual graves. Such displays are generally permitted on Memorial Day and Confederate Memorial Day in the states that observe it.”

Can’t find the text.

[Hieronymus]

Squishy cowards all.

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Not quite all. Good for Bishop. I tried dropping him an e-mail, but you have to be from his district.

[Michael.SF.]

all but two Democrats. Rep. Sanford Bishop (D) of Georgia, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, voted against the amendment.

That has to be an error. I think they meant only two Democrats voted against the measure. I would be interested to know why a black congressman was against it.

[sten]

can we ban the homo flag as well?

what about the isis flag?

[cva66snipe]

Just wait till the DemWits figure out CSA is shown on their grave markers in National Cemeteries.

[DesertRhino]

That included a Lotta GOP votes.

[Jim from C-Town]

They already have. They say the Republicans where the slave masters, the KKK, the Jim Crow legislation pushers and the ones who blocked civil rights.

[daler]

The best thing to do is go to your favorite VA cemetery next weekend and plant 100 confederate flags, even if you're in friggin Oregon..

I don't know about you, but I've had it.

[clearcarbon]

This same administration that swears global warming is a settled science and cannot tell the difference between an man and a woman now wants me to believe the Confederate flag is a symbol of slavery.

I can say for certain that the blue, red and white jackass is the symbol of tyranny.

[PGalt]

Members of the gang of 535 should be in federal prison. (Here’s just 1 grievance in a long list of grievances)

http://www.usdebtclock.org

It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder. - Bastiat

6. But the grand nostrum will be a public debt...

7. It must not be forgotten that the members of the legislative body are to have a deep stake in the game. This is an essential point, and happily is attended with no difficulty. A sufficient number, properly disposed, can alternately legislate and speculate, and speculate and legislate, and buy and sell, and sell and buy, until a due portion of the property of their constituents has passed into their hands to give them an interest against their constituents…

/Freneau

The most evil government in the history of the republic.

Banning our heritage?

FUCONgre$$