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Virginia County secretly removes Confederate flag from official seal
The Daily Press, Hampton Roads, VA ^ | March 2, 2006 | Associated Press

Posted on 03/03/2006 11:37:56 AM PST by Rebeleye

The removal of the Confederate flag from Amherst County's official seal has upset Southern heritage groups, who contend residents weren't told of the change. County officials acknowledge the image was quietly removed in August 2004 to avoid an uproar.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: amherst; battleflag; confederate; confederateflag; crackpots; crossofstandrew; dixie; goodthingtoo; neoconfederate; nutty; politicalcorrectness; purge; rag; scv; standrewscross; virgina; virginia
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To: Gianni
Very few posts make me laugh out loud. Thought I would share.

So did Alabama make the federal government, or did the Congress make Alabama?

1,121 posted on 03/31/2006 3:45:47 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: JSDude1
...in Confederate Rebellion from a Tyrannous USA (at that time)...

I applaud you for being one of the few southron supporters around here who actually admit the southern actions were a rebellion, but I was wondering if you can give us some examples of the tyranny that the southern states were suffering from that caused the rebellion in the first place?

(BTW I hope you aren't one of those individuals who equates the Civil War=Slavery).

'Fraid I am. Absent slavery, and their perceived need to defend it, the southern states would not have rebelled.

It wasn't, it was about the right of states to remain sovereign of the Federal government.

And just what was the bone of contention that caused the southern states to cry out about a loss of sovereignty? Other than slavery I mean?

1,122 posted on 03/31/2006 4:25:27 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: M. Espinola
Here's some more repulsive rhetoric from the the rancid rebellion.

...Slaveless whites in such a confederacy would be socially degraded as well as politically disfranchised. In mid-September 1860, Alabama fire-eater William L. Yancey delivered a speech in Knoxville in which, according to Brownlow's account, he observed that one of the advantages of slavery was that it provided a labor force for "degrading work" and "menial service," whereas in the free states whites had to fulfill this role. For weeks thereafter, Brownlow reminded readers of Yancey's remarks, stressing that his disparaging comments about the dignity of manual labor were an affront to nine-tenths of his audience.

The movers and shakers of the South were too good for menial and "degrading work". What a contemptible society. Any poor southerner who fought for such a trashy system was a misused sucker and the best thing that could have happened for such confederate cannon fodder was their quick defeat at the hands of our US Army.

Sadly there's always been an element of southerners that will suffer any exploitation and overlook any injustice if they can be fooled into thinking it's for "The South".

1,123 posted on 03/31/2006 4:47:01 AM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: M. Espinola

The harm that's being done to the great civil rights party by neoconfederates is immeasurable. The democrat party was front and center in suppression of civil rights.

The neoconservatives' revisionism and smearing of the republican party with the sins of the democrats may permanently put the dims in power.


1,124 posted on 03/31/2006 4:51:56 AM PST by tkathy
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To: justshutupandtakeit
what an INCREDABLY FALSE & SILLY POST!!!!

do you REALLY believe that the SLAVERS conspired to elect lincoln, the TYRANT??? not even the MOST lunatic of REVISIONISTS would suggest that, seriously, as it would get them laughed out of their LEFTIST, "poison ivy-league screwls".

laughing AT you!

free dixie,sw

1,125 posted on 03/31/2006 7:12:39 AM PST by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
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To: justshutupandtakeit
well, since PERIOD DOCUMENTS call the "ex colonies" STATES (and before there was a US government!), you post is in a word, LUDICRIOUS!

laughing AT you (as is virtually everyone else here!)

free dixie,sw

1,126 posted on 03/31/2006 7:15:17 AM PST by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
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To: JSDude1
actually, "JSU&TI" IS one of the LUNATIC-fringe REVISIONISTS, who believe that EVERYTHING about the WBTS was SOLELY about slavery. (if you read one of his earlier posts on this thread, he posits that the SLAVERS conspired to get lincoln, their WORST nightmare according to him, elected POTUS! have you ever heard any opinion stranger than that???)

his/her eyes & MIND are tightly CLOSED to FACTS. (fwiw, NOTHING he/she has EVER posted on these threads is anything but his/her OPINION.)

free dixie,sw

1,127 posted on 03/31/2006 7:20:37 AM PST by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
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To: justshutupandtakeit
actually, everything you post IS absurd! and ignorant of the FACTS as well.

free dixie,sw

1,128 posted on 03/31/2006 7:21:51 AM PST by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
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To: Gianni
YEP & "JSU&TI" "not very bright" either.

it is also possible that he is just a TROLL, who likes to cause discord on FR.

free dixie,sw

1,129 posted on 03/31/2006 7:25:43 AM PST by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
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To: Gianni
YEP & "JSU&TI" "not very bright" either.

it is also possible that he is just a TROLL, who likes to cause discord on FR.

free dixie,sw

1,130 posted on 03/31/2006 7:25:53 AM PST by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
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To: justshutupandtakeit
any analogy made by you is 100% FALSE & IGNORANT of the most basic facts of history. in your strange twisted little world everything that disagrees with your UNKNOWING & groundless opinions is wrong.

that's why you get RIDICULED by all normal FReepers.

free dixie,sw

1,131 posted on 03/31/2006 7:29:52 AM PST by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
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To: justshutupandtakeit; All
another FALSE & SILLY post by "JSU&TI". lol AT him/her!

free dixie,sw

1,132 posted on 03/31/2006 7:31:02 AM PST by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
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To: M. Espinola
your post is TOO SILLY for a legitimate answer.

the bilge you post is ALWAYS false or wrong. why not go back to posting your cartoons, as they show more brains than you supposedly serious posts???

laughing AT you!

free dixie,sw

1,133 posted on 03/31/2006 7:33:42 AM PST by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
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To: M. Espinola
one more time, calling anyone a "neoconfederate" marks the person using this TERM OF ABUSE as a LUNATIC & a HATER.

but then we knew that about you.

free dixie,sw

1,134 posted on 03/31/2006 7:36:03 AM PST by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
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To: Non-Sequitur
the 13 STATES created the USA. the federal government did NOT create the states.

you KNOW better than that, even if some of "your team" do not.

free dixie,sw

1,135 posted on 03/31/2006 7:37:51 AM PST by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
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To: tkathy
and your PROOF for this LUDICRIOUS theory is???? or is it simply your UNknowing personal opinion????

free dixie,sw

1,136 posted on 03/31/2006 7:39:51 AM PST by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
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To: Non-Sequitur

Neither.


1,137 posted on 03/31/2006 2:31:48 PM PST by Gianni
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To: Gianni

So where did Alabama come from?


1,138 posted on 03/31/2006 2:33:45 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: stand watie

That is exactly what they did at the Charleston meeting prior to the election of 1860. Or are you under the impression that splitting the DemocRAT party into three parts would defeat Lincoln?

I realize the Slaver leadership was composed of fools, and idiots but even it was not so stupid as to not know this act would mean Lincoln's election.

How else could they manuever the rest of the South into supporting Insurrection?


1,139 posted on 03/31/2006 9:26:52 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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To: justshutupandtakeit

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1607226/posts


1,140 posted on 03/31/2006 9:28:24 PM PST by Clemenza (I Just Wasn't Made for These Times)
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