Controversial Confederate flag is missing

Charlotte Observer ^ | 01-19-05 | MICHELLE CROUCH

[Robe]

Just on the Local Radio Station...... The custodian of the cemetary has said that he was ordered to cut down the flags along with the assoiciated ropes and pullys. States he was told that the City didn't want a photo opportunity of the flag being removed.

[silent_jonny]

"Controversial Confederate flag"--that's kind of redundant, isn't it?

[Robe]

PING

[Darksheare]

Lemme guess, the custodian removed the flag, and the city is trying to claim that it was 'stolen'?

[Tarpaulin]

The South won. Take a look at Washington.

[Robe]

You got it... what a bunch of spineless ba$tards..

But then again they're all "RATS

What do ya expect

[Robe]

You got it... what a bunch of spineless ba$tards..

But then again they're all "RATS

What do ya expect

[jb6]

God Bless it, I am so sick and damn tired of the white washing of southern culture, of the stripping of everything and for that matter the McAmerica we now live in. Why bother travelling, it's all the same everywhere. No personality, no character, just the same boxes with the same sign.

Charlotte, now there's a good example. Back in the 80s it had a really nice pre Civil War down town. I swear, the only thing that is left is one church and it's bone yard.

[Robe]

Gosh darn it... I hate it when I get so MAD I start to STUDDER

[Darksheare]

Yikes.
Tickles something in my memory, but it isn't quite coming out of the fog in the back of my head.

[Darksheare]

Don't worry about it.
This poor guy (truth49) got a triple post at the same time you got a double post:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1324182/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1324183/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1324184/posts

All at 5:35 by my time, same time as the double post in this thread.
Happens sometimes due to system burp at the servers.

[mdittmar]

The theifs are scum.

"Dixie"

[silent_jonny]

?

[Tarpaulin]

!

[silent_jonny]

:o

[Tarpaulin]

;^D

[NC28203]

>>>The Confederate battle flag that flies over the graves of Confederate soldiers....a city committee weighs whether to recommend removing the flag after several months of discussion and debate. The committee is expected to make a decision Friday.

Seems to me that a simple solution is to post the NC flag that existed during the Civil War, since these soldiers fought defending states' rights. The soldiers get their flag and those opposed to the Confederate battle flag won't have anything to complain about.

[Cobra64]

"The Confederate battle flag that flies over the graves of Confederate soldiers at city-owned Elmwood Cemetery has been stolen, its owners said."

This behavior really twists my short. And I'm a 'damn yankee' living in NC.

We fly the stars and stripes on our back deck, and none of the locals have torn it down. All this PC baloney is pathetic. The people living in this country in 1860 were Americans. I never understood the basis of the Civil War, some of my ancestors were Southerners, and others were Yankees. I guess that's why I'm just plain ignorant. And, I took all the history classes in school. I disagreed with the premise of the war. BUT, I never protested, nor denigrated either the North or the South.

More Americans need to focus on the bastards trying to fly planes into our buildings and murder Americans while we are trying to bring civilization and democracy to the planet.

Either we will succeed or my children will be speaking Arabic.

[stainlessbanner]

dixieping

[PistolPaknMama]

So when the Mooselims start taking down the US flag in veteran cemetary, everyone is going to roll over that too? This has never been about race, hate or slavery. Anyone too brain dead to realize that will lose their heritage as well...and soon.