Confederacy of the determined - (Southern heritage buffs vow "Confederate History Month")

WASHINGTON TIMES.COM ^ | APRIL 24, 2005 | Christina Bellantoni

[CHARLITE]

Southern heritage buffs vow to use the Virginia gubernatorial election as a platform for designating April as Confederate History and Heritage Month.

The four candidates have differing views on the Confederacy, an issue that has been debated for years in the commonwealth.

"We're not just a few people making a lot of noise," said Brag Bowling, a spokesman for the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the oldest hereditary organization for male descendents of Confederate soldiers. "This is not a racial thing; it is good for Virginia. We're going to keep pushing this until we get it."

Each candidate recently shared his thoughts on what Mr. Bowling called a "litmus test for all politicians." Lt. Gov. Timothy M. Kaine would not support a Confederate History and Heritage Month. Former state Attorney General Jerry W. Kilgore would support something that recognizes everyone who lived during the Civil War.

Sen. H. Russell Potts Jr. and Warrenton Mayor George B. Fitch would support a Confederate History and Heritage Month. Many past Virginia governors honored the Civil War or the Confederacy.

In 1990, former Gov. L. Douglas Wilder, the nation's first black governor, a Democrat and a grandson of slaves, issued a proclamation praising both sides of the war and remembering "those who sacrificed in this great struggle."

Former Govs. George Allen and James S. Gilmore III, both Republicans, issued Confederate History Month proclamations. In 2000, Mr. Gilmore replaced that proclamation with one commemorating both sides of the Civil War -- a move that enraged the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

Gov. Mark Warner, a Democrat, has refused to issue a gubernatorial decree on either side of the Civil War.

Mr. Kaine, another Democrat, would decline to issue a Confederate History and Heritage Month proclamation if he is elected governor, said his campaign spokeswoman, Delacey Skinner.

[stand watie]

yet ANOTHER dumb/hate-FILLED comment from FR's resident HATER.

fwiw, it was the members of our PRAYER GROUP, who were harrassed & insulted.

our members did absolutely nothing wrong, unless you believe kneeling to pray, reading the Bible & singing "Amazing Grace" is somehow wrong, in your hate-FILLED & twisted world-view.

i PITY you.

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

btw, don't you get really tired of being laughed AT & thought a DUNCE, by SMART FReepers???

you are the principle laughingstock of FR. don't you care???

free dixie,sw

[M. Espinola]

"i believe that political/social/financial INDEPENDENCE for dixie is BEST for our people, since you DAMNyankees,LEFTISTS, STATISTS & REVISIONISTS just will not "go away & leave us ALONE"!"

You are off your rocker!

The only so-called "Dixie Republic" you or anyone else will ever see is the one drifting around in your demented few remaining brain cells.

My conclusion after reviewing your anti-American ravings is you would sell out this nation in a heart beat if some fruitcake promised you your invented 'Dixie Republic'.

Do everyone in this nation a huge favour & get the hell out, now.

[stand watie]

yet another DUMB post by FR's main DUMB-bunny.

NOBODY here thinks you are even 1/2-bright and/or CARES what you "think".

head over to DU & sup with Whisky Papa, cvn76, # 3fan & the other BANNED south-HATING unionist coven members.

they are all over on DU & will welcome you. begone!

free dixie,sw

[M. Espinola]

"our members did absolutely nothing wrong, unless you believe kneeling to pray, reading the Bible & singing "Amazing Grace" is somehow wrong, in your hate-FILLED & twisted world-view."

There is nothing incorrect with praying, reading the Bible and singing, unless you were singing Dixie and waving around rebel flags at the 9-11 site. Were you engaged in those kind of deliberate provocations?

How long were the citizens of the Big Apple so unfortunate as to have someone like you, who hates all 'Yankees', lurking in this city? (oy, if I had only known!) LOL

[stand watie]

based on your post #2100, you seem to believe that it would be A-OK to assault and perhaps murder someone, who took a CSA battleflag to NYC.

you'd make a REALLY FINE klansman. based on your DUMB posts alone,you have the "lack of brains", the BIGOTISM & the arrogant nitwittery to be one.

you might want to get your robes & hood ready. my brother-of the-heart, H K Edgerton (and several other NON-white CSA partisans from the Black Confederate Soldiers Memorial Assn!) is planning on marching on NYC in the fall with a BIG (Army size= 5'x5') battleflag. he will, for your information,NOT be alone.

perhaps, you can get some of your proto-fascist brothers in arms to come down & assault us. that will look REALLY NICE on nationwide TV!

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

i do NOT (for about the 50th time) hate yankees.

i DO despise DAMNyankees for their HATE-FILLED, nitwitted,BIGOTED attitudes toward the southland, our flags,our memorials to our honored CSA soldiers/sailors/marines, our HERO-Martyrs, our separate culture/mores & her people.

you, fwiw, fit the description of a DAMNyankee that i posted earlier to a T.

you might also look under "BIGOT" in the dictionary to see your picture. good likeness too.

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

once Le Republique Quebecois separates from Canada (in about 10 years at the latest)& los Estados Unidos de Azatlan departs the USA in about 20 years, perhaps the new & MUCH improved dixie republic can PEACEFULLY leave.

then the LEFTIST "blue-staters" & the REVISIONIST HATERS can re-name the remaining states "The People's Mulit-cultural Nanny-state Republik" or something of that sort.

then you can MURDER the UNborn with gleeful abandon,ban all guns, worry incessantly about pit-bulldogs, try to be evermore PC, raise taxes to the sky, take all the dope you wish & engage in every known sexual perversion.

just think what a "wunnerful,wunnerful" sort of place it will be! it will be a SOCIALIST "heaven-on-earth".

you can even have HITLERY Rodham Klintoon as your Dowager EMPERESS! (she'll be PLEASED to be on TV every night to tell you how WONDERFUL you all are, while she takes the LAST dregs of your LIBERTY!)

free dixie,sw

[M. Espinola]

I knew it! LOL You were jumping around with reb flags and mouthing off about your invented version of neo-confederate Dixieland right in the heart of Downtown. I would have loved to seen you make a complete dunderhead out of yourself--sick!

Yo! Jr, the Klan flies the Confederate Flag and so do you.

Are you planing to grace this city again? Which dates? I'll have to inform the bakery to have plenty of nice, big, cream pies on hand, in your case the can be 'day old' bake goods.

[M. Espinola]

"i do NOT (for about the 50th time) hate yankees."

Look, if you gave your typical 'Lost Cause speech' up here, maybe the only one who would not immediately realize you are not totally bonkers, would be a blind & deaf ally cat!

Mass copy this hero of yours, with his 'real' bio. About 5000 copies will do, then hand then out while waving your rebel flag to everyone walking up & down 5th Avenue. If you want to make the evening news, that should do it! Please make my day - lol

"you, fwiw, fit the description of a DAMNyankee"

And I'm the 'bigot'? Seek assistance soon.

[wardaddy]

Yo! Jr, the Klan flies the Confederate Flag and so do you

You can do better M!

(NYC)

[M. Espinola]

You know better then to try that on me. For every antique, moth eaten picture of terrorist KKK rednecks with an American flag, there are just as many with the Confederate/rebel flag.

In this photo the klan vermin have desecrated an American flag

(Bud I told you those Klan-schmucks use that rebel flag!)

Where Klansmen eventually go...

[M. Espinola]

Stand can you explain what Kirk is doing attending this Klan rally in Tenn.?

[mac_truck]

Those klan march photos you posted are from the early part of the 20th century, long before the CBF was used as a symbol for southern resistance to integration. From the 1950's through the 1970s (and beyond) the KKK has used the CBF extensively as a symbol of 'white power' with nary a peep from the Southern Heritage crowd.

After a generation or two of allowing the CBF to be distorted into a racist symbol, and only after orgainzed efforts to remove the CBF from public places has the Heritage not Hate crowd begun to try to change public opiniion. It's too little too late (imo).

[Pelham]

The only so-called "Dixie Republic" you or anyone else will ever see is the one drifting around in your demented few remaining brain cells.

My conclusion after reviewing your anti-American ravings is you would sell out this nation in a heart beat if some fruitcake promised you your invented 'Dixie Republic'.

Do everyone in this nation a huge favour & get the hell out, now.

Tsk,tsk. You imitation yankees are such eager haters. Didn't you learn any manners growing up?

[M. Espinola]

"imitation yankees"

And do tell, what might you be?

[Pelham]

Old American stock. And you?

[M. Espinola]

100% American from the Northeast.

[Gianni]

From the 1950's through the 1970s (and beyond) the KKK has used the CBF extensively as a symbol of 'white power' with nary a peep from the Southern Heritage crowd.

In five years on FR, I've never seen Espinola, Refugio, Whiskeypooper, or you post the association without at least someone giving them a lashing for it.

[wardaddy]

Klan still uses Old Glory.

Don't try to blame it all on the CBF nor the South.

Plenty of klan up in ya'lls' neck of the woods.