Posted on 08/05/2008 12:11:25 PM PDT by cowboyway
TAMPA, FLA. - Chip Witte doesn't consider himself a Rebel. He doesn't hang Dixie battle flags in his living room, nor does he wear one on the back of his leather jacket.
Yet when the Tampa motorcycle mechanic saw the world's largest Confederate battle flag unfurl above the intersection of I-75 and I-4 in June, he felt a jolt of solidarity with the lost cause and lost rights that he says the battle flag represents. "I think it's great that they're allowed to fly it," says Mr. Witte. [Editor's note: The original version misidentified the highway intersection.]
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To do what it’s been doing ever since “reconstruction.”
You forgot the ending which to me is the most imporant.
I can’t take up my musket
And fight’em now no mo’
But I ain’t a-goin ‘to love ‘em,
Now that is sartin sho’;
And I don’t want no pardon
For what I was and am;
And I won’t be reconstructed,
And I do not give a damn.
Nor do I. But the important thing is that in the end it was Innes Randolph and his ilk doing the bitching and whining and crying and not the Union soldiers.
I truly feel sorry for him.
Oh you can keep your false pity, I don't need it at all. If you want to pity anyone, then pity those lost causers around here who cling to Southron fairy tales. Pity yourself.
He's probably talking about the stories surrounding the 20th Maine at Little Round Top. You have to dig through the hyperbole.
I don’t have a problem with the Confederrate Battle Flag.
I have one and the Stars and Bars.
But since I respect it, and it is NOT a racist flag, I don’t like to see racists abusing it. It only gives radicals ammo to attack it.
nope...i guess it gives away that the story was not written by a local, though...
was hearing about a book called Fahrenheit 451 before...never have had a chance to read it, but they were talking about the onset of PC and what results from it...something that ought to be remembered here...
There’s a nice one on I-65 in Alabama as well, on the south-bound side around mile marker 194 (between Montgomery and Birmingham).
No it wasn't. Not even in the slightest.
First, there is no such thing as "states' rights." States are governments and governments do not have rights - people do.
Second, even if states had any of these imaginary rights, the federal government had done absolutely nothing to violate these pretended rights in any way before the seceding states seceded.
The whole concept of "states' rights" is an invention cooked up to preserve slavery.
If it weren't, defenders of the Confederacy would be able to itemize these alleged offenses against "states' rights" - but they never can.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Very well said.
And the powers of none of the Confederate states were violated in the slightest prior to secssion.
Secession was completely without constitutional grounds or provocation.
The Confederacy seceded because they didn't like the way the 1860 national elections went, not because the powers of any state were usurped in any way at all.
You've edited the lyrics, StoneWall Brigade.
It originally read: "For this fair land of freedom I do not care a damn."
The song is instructive, especially when the original lyrics remain undoctored.
The "good ol' rebel" of the song is a pathetic character - an impotent loser consumed with hatred who takes pleasure in the suffering and death of others and who does not "care a damn" about living in a free country.
The song illustrates the mentality of the hard-bitten Lost Cause enthusiast - and it is not a pretty picture.
I just enjoy tweaking whiny southron crybabies. If you're upset with me then you must fall into that category.
Interestingly, the Southern states only became reliably red states starting in 1980 - at precisely the same time as enormous numbers of white Northerners began heading South.
FDR had his ass handed to him in New England - he won the presidency again and again because he got up to 80% of the votes in the Old Confederacy. The New Deal was made possible by the Southern voter - the sons and grandsons of the Confederates.
The turning of the US to a more socialist way of living happened at the Southern ballot box in 1932.
It was solidified by the liberalization of the North - an shift that happened over decades as the original Yankees moved West with the expansion of the frontier and were outnumbered in the Northeast by new, post-Civil War immigrants.
We've been through that. Now I just watch you drag out the same old tired NS rhetoric with others and laugh at your attempts to spread your revisionist version of a historical event that has you seething and foaming from the mouth with every waking breath.
I imagine that your dreams are haunted with visions of Rebel soldiers charging in your direction with Battle Flags flying and the Rebel yell filling your ears with horror as you cower in fear as your last line of defense (wife and daughters) are swept aside and you realize the end is near when, you awaken in a cold sweat, try to clear the persistent cobwebs from your numbed gray matter and begin another day spreading lies as the self appointed Minister of The War of Northern Aggression Propaganda.
I can honestly say that I have never dreamed about rebel soldiers doing anything, much less attacking someone.
... self appointed Minister of The War of Northern Aggression Propaganda.
Please. War of Southern Rebellion.
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