To: cowboyway
The flag is not a racist flag — but a synbol of STATE RIGHTS!! The south went to war to protect their rights, not to keep slaves, but to keep the federal government from getting to big.
5 posted on
08/05/2008 12:26:20 PM PDT by
EagleandLiberty
(Psst... Serious questions Conservatives - want McCain or a Marxist in the White House?)
To: EagleandLiberty
6 posted on
08/05/2008 12:28:35 PM PDT by
ZULU
(Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
To: EagleandLiberty
The south went to war to protect their rights, not to keep slaves, but to keep the federal government from getting to big.That's completely and embarrassingly false.
Of course, there's no reason why the flag shouldn't fly - it's part of US history.
7 posted on
08/05/2008 12:29:10 PM PDT by
wideawake
(Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
To: EagleandLiberty
The south went to war to protect their rights, not to keep slaves, but to keep the federal government from getting to big. Getting too big to do what?
To: EagleandLiberty
The vice president of the CSA would seem to contradict your historical analysis. The so-called Cornerstone Speech text is at the link below.
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?documentprint=76
The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institutionAfrican slavery as it exists amongst usthe proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution.
Not specific enough, how is this?
Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slaverysubordination to the superior raceis his natural and normal condition.
21 posted on
08/05/2008 2:05:18 PM PDT by
dmz
To: EagleandLiberty
It’s a symbol that says “Are you offended by this flag? TOO BAD FOR YOU!”
23 posted on
08/05/2008 2:09:34 PM PDT by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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