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SCV Announces Gettysburg Boycott
Sons of Confederate Veterans ^ | 8/25/2004 | Brag Bowling

Posted on 08/26/2004 7:53:13 PM PDT by RebelBanker

The greatest battle ever fought on the North American continent and the historical aftermath of this titanic contest have been lost forever in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. On the same grounds where Robert E. Lee, John Buford and John Reynolds fought for principles they held dear to them, Gettysburg College has decided that political correctness is more important than it’s historical identity.

The Sons of Confederate Veterans hereby alert all of our members and friends to attend the rally to be held on September 2 and September 3 at Gettysburg College to protest the College sponsored art exhibit featuring the hateful anti-Southern artwork of John Sims.

It has become apparent that neither Gettysburg College nor Gettysburg appreciates the value of Southern tourism. The valor exhibited by Confederate soldiers in this decisive battle is no longer important to officials of Gettysburg or Gettysburg College. The Confederate Battle flag is an honored flag flown on the battlefield by our Confederate soldiers. By promoting what the college calls “art” in which any intelligent person can see is nothing but thinly disguised hatred, the Sons of Confederate Veterans have decided that an economic boycott of the Gettysburg area will commence on September 3. And millions of American citizens with a love of the South and their Confederate heritage have been deeply offended.

Commander-in-Chief Denne Sweeney hereby calls on all members, families, and friends to avoid Gettysburg and not to spend any money in the Gettysburg area. All people concerned with the anti-Southern bigotry of this area should alert friends, media, and anyone concerned with the growing problem in Gettysburg so that this boycott will become nationwide and not just regional.

After September 3, Gettysburg is to be avoided whenever vacation plans are being made. Please pass this on to all media, lists and Internet services for widespread distribution.

Brag Bowling
National Press Officer
Sons of Confederate Veterans

804.359.0382


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Pennsylvania
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To: RebelBanker

AZ IF...

this is going to stop Gettysburg tourism? BWAHAHAHAHA!

I go down there once a year, in October, and you can hardly walk the streets with all the tourists. You have to reserve a room months in advance.

Yup, these ole boys are a-whistlin' "Dixie".


141 posted on 08/27/2004 2:31:54 PM PDT by Palladin (Proud to be a FReeper!)
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To: Rat

Guess you married a virgin? Hard to find those at 40.


142 posted on 08/27/2004 2:39:59 PM PDT by Atlanta ( Be the hammer or the anvil...)
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To: dangus

*sigh* more hate for the south...
how often must we appologize and for how long should we hang our heads down in shame when we have done nothing wrong?





And to get a rise out of some people...

"At the right time the king of the North will attack the king of the South again, but this time he will not be successful as he was before."...

"But you, Daniel, close up the book and seal it. These things will happen at the time of the end."


Daniel, 11


143 posted on 08/27/2004 3:01:26 PM PDT by DixieOklahoma
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To: stand watie
You're so cute. And consistent, too! Any source that agrees with your perspective, no matter how obviously slanted, is completely true. Any source that contradicts you is DAMNYANKEE BIAS AND LIES. A hundred academic papers, scholarly books and independent sources saying 100-120 dead, including a dozen blacks are all lies. One newspaper that was considered the outer limits of aboltionist propaganda was the only one speaking the truth. It's just amazing. But then, I've reached the point where I can predict your response to any point: You won't present evidence, you'll just rant. When your occasional bit of evidence is shown to be incorrect, you'll just rant.

So, have you written to Lubar yet to ask why he's not supporting your argument about cotton picking machines?

144 posted on 08/27/2004 3:18:28 PM PDT by Heyworth
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To: dangus
But it funny how many Southern "patriots" still identify themselves with the insurrectionists,

Isn't it funny how at the same time the Southerner is over-represented in DEFENDING this country?
145 posted on 08/27/2004 3:31:17 PM PDT by johnb838 (Deconstruct the libsocs)
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To: Atlanta

I hope you don't think *I* was calling Lincoln a tyrant! I was quoting some of the comments!


146 posted on 08/27/2004 3:31:52 PM PDT by dangus
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To: Atlanta

... but I'd still grab a few brewskis :^)


147 posted on 08/27/2004 3:35:48 PM PDT by dangus
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To: DixieOklahoma

Yeah, but when I wrote that I was referring to Scottsh invasion of England. :^)


148 posted on 08/27/2004 3:36:54 PM PDT by dangus
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To: Atlanta
Let me tell you something else, my wife moved to Atlanta in 96. She confessed that northern men are small sized. I said, what do you mean? She replied " about 4 inches". She maintains southern men are much bigger!

She sure never complained to me.

149 posted on 08/27/2004 5:00:43 PM PDT by XJarhead
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To: dangus
I hope you don't think *I* was calling Lincoln a tyrant! I was quoting some of the comments!

Actually, I believe some of Lincoln's most ardent hagiographers called him a tyrant. They just explained that being a tyrant was what was needed at the time to save the Union.

Some good friends of mine refer to him as "the Tyrant Lincoln" and certainly do not intend any kindness in that epithet. Others (including many here) insist he was without faults and is thus the patron saint of as well as the founder of the Republican Party.

150 posted on 08/27/2004 8:24:46 PM PDT by RebelBanker ("Nuance" is the French word for "Gobbledegook.")
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To: Palladin

This will not stop tourism, but (if followed) would have a serious impact on one type of merchant - the sutlers who cater to the reenactors. Since a substantial part (presumably about half) of their business is from those of us in gray, a boycott could drive some of them out of business.

It will also make Remembrance Day kind of interesting. For the ten years or so I have been marching in the parade, Confederates have represented about half of the marchers and a significant portion of the ceremonies.


151 posted on 08/27/2004 8:34:39 PM PDT by RebelBanker ("Nuance" is the French word for "Gobbledegook.")
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To: RebelBanker

I know what is meant by sometimes you need a tyrant. Giuliani was a real sunuvabch. But was he ever needed!


152 posted on 08/27/2004 8:41:55 PM PDT by dangus
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To: Arkinsaw
Go to Shiloh sometime and you'll see just how huge a difference. Gettysburg is a t-shirt store, Shiloh is a quiet reflective place.

Go to Gettysburg when it's not the high tourist season. Go during the week, and go walk around the actual battlefields. You can feel the oppressive sense of what happened there. It's an eerie feeling (as opposed to what you feel in Eeerie PA) when you are nearly alone on the battlefields where so many died. I felt that long before I knew I had a g-g-uncle who was captured at Gettysburg and later died in a prison hospital in Richmond, at 18. It was a tragic war. While slaves won freedom, the states did in fact lose their freedom from oppressive federal government as demonstrated 75-100 years later with the court rulings from the 30's on...

153 posted on 08/27/2004 9:03:30 PM PDT by Kay Ludlow (Free market, but cautious about what I support with my dollars)
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To: RebelBanker
only the IGNORANT, UNEDUCATED & hateFILLED damnyankees worship at the feet of lincoln, the GREAT spiller of innocent blood.

imVho, they are PITIFUL.

free dixie,sw

154 posted on 08/28/2004 7:14:28 AM PDT by stand watie (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. -T. Jefferson)
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To: dangus
to my knowledge, Guiliani NEVER allowed the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of INNOCENT women & children (or even one for that matter) & helpless POWs.

lincoln, the TYRANT & destroyer would have allowed the killing of EVERYBODY in the country to keep him & his cabal of thugs in power.

he was just about POWER. nothing more;nothing less.

free dixie,sw

155 posted on 08/28/2004 7:18:51 AM PDT by stand watie (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. -T. Jefferson)
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To: Heyworth; All
in point of fact, the ONLY real problem you have with the newspaper article is that it shows the damnyankees to be what they demonstrably were/ARE:

CRUEL,ARROGANT,SELF-RIGHTEOUS,RACIST,SELF-SERVING,STUPID & EVIL.

which is what we southrons have always said of them.

that's also why the only HONORABLE solution to the situation is DIXIE FREEDOM.

NOTE to our reader: being northernborn no more condemns you to being a damnyankee than it forces you to be a plumber. DAMNYANKEE is a LEARNED, unthinking PREJUDICE, which is functionally NO better than racism.

free dixie,sw

156 posted on 08/28/2004 7:28:44 AM PDT by stand watie (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. -T. Jefferson)
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To: johnb838
also true.

i find it amusing too that so many damnyankees still bow down daily to lincoln, their secular/clayfooted saint.

you would think they were smarter than that! (perhaps it's that northern, PC "publick screwl edumakashun" that's to blame.)

free dixie,sw

157 posted on 08/28/2004 7:31:22 AM PDT by stand watie (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. -T. Jefferson)
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To: colorado tanker
ACYUALLY it's KNOWING LIES & HATEFULNESS on their part (for the educated ones) & STUPIDITY & UNTHINKING PREJUDICE for the uneducated & ignorant ones.

free dixie,sw

158 posted on 08/28/2004 7:34:45 AM PDT by stand watie (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. -T. Jefferson)
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To: Atlanta

LOL.


159 posted on 08/28/2004 7:35:44 AM PDT by stand watie (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. -T. Jefferson)
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To: Arkinsaw; colorado tanker
when i joined the SCV over a 1/4 century ago, the SUVCW & SCV didn't speak to each other.

NOW, the Confederate Veteran magazine runs ads (FREE of charge) for the SUVCW & we have memorial ceremonies together to honor BOTH sides. (YES, there were some brave & true lads in blue;they were BRAVE & HONORABLE while serving a poor cause.)!

passing strange!

free dixie,sw

160 posted on 08/28/2004 7:40:32 AM PDT by stand watie (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. -T. Jefferson)
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