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To: mac_truck
There is a vast difference between a private group of racists and the government of a state when it comes to the use of such symbols and their INDELIBLE effect on the populace.

Indelible effect on the populace? My goodness.

The federal leviathan has lots of powers, but I don't see anything in the Constitution that prohibits a state from flying the CBF by itself or as part of their state flag, however wise or unwise you might consider it.

You might not like it, and the New York Times and NAACP certainly don't. The Times uses it to demonize the South and try to split it from the rest of the Republican base. The NAACP uses it to rally their own supporters and keep them offended and voting together as a block.

If you live in a state that flies the flag, you certainly have the right to vote against the politicians that use it. Even if the flag is only flying on a monument to Confederate soldiers, the ancestors of many people of that state.

Perhaps you are simply opposed to letting the people of another state decide what they want even if what they do doesn't violate the Constitution. Are you a descendant of Thaddeus Stevens perhaps?

477 posted on 08/14/2006 7:25:58 AM PDT by rustbucket
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To: rustbucket
NICE & thoughtful post!

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478 posted on 08/14/2006 7:44:13 AM PDT by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
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To: rustbucket
I don't see anything in the Constitution that prohibits a state from flying the CBF by itself or as part of their state flag

Neither do I, but that doesn't change the fact that the Confederate flag is a symbol of segregation does it?

The Times uses it to demonize the South and try to split it from the rest of the Republican base.

I don't know any Republican who reads the NYT and takes it seriously, do you?

The NAACP uses it to rally their own supporters and keep them offended and voting together as a block.

Sounds like the same tactic the segregationist Democrats like George Wallace used for DECADES, and now you complain?

If you live in a state that flies the flag, you certainly have the right to vote against the politicians that use it. Even if the flag is only flying on a monument to Confederate soldiers, the ancestors of many people of that state.

Politicians should NEVER have been allowed to appropriate such a symbol of honor in the first place, wouldn't you agree?

Perhaps you are simply opposed to letting the people of another state decide what they want even if what they do doesn't violate the Constitution.

Look, George Wallace led the vanguard of southern Governors trying to maintain the practice of segregation in the face of federal civil rights laws. He adopted the Confederate flag as a symbol of his pro-segregation position, and in so doing indelibly stained what had been an honorific symbol of a failed Southern cause.

Wallace wrapped his rhetoric in the same state's rights language so often heard by the gray diaper babies on these boards today, but his underlying message of segregation shone through as clearly as it had outside the Montgomery Statehouse in 1963 when he announced that "From this cradle of the Confederacy....I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever."

Are you a descendant of Thaddeus Stevens perhaps?

I'm still a strong believer in civil rights for ALL Americans if that's what you mean.

481 posted on 08/14/2006 9:22:44 AM PDT by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu l’aidera)
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