Virginia County secretly removes Confederate flag from official seal

The Daily Press, Hampton Roads, VA ^ | March 2, 2006 | Associated Press

[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.

[bondjamesbond]

The teeny tiny little blue cross is a problem, but "GOD AND MY (BIRTH) RIGHT" across the bottom is A-OK!

[brazzaville]

Good morning.
What bothers me is when people feel that to defend their ancestors' bravery and courage requires dishonesty about the compromised moral nature of the cause they fought for."

"...I think."

Prove it. Prove either statement.

Michael Frazier

[brazzaville]

Good morning.
What bothers me is when people feel that to defend their ancestors' bravery and courage requires dishonesty about the compromised moral nature of the cause they fought for."

"...I think."

Prove it. Prove either statement.

Michael Frazier

[Gianni]

The rectangular version of the ANV flag was used as the Confederate Navy jack, and also used by the army of Tennessee.

[HostileTerritory]

Bless your heart, indeed.

[brazzaville]

Good morning.
"By the way, I always get a laugh when someone flying a California flag makes fun of a freeper for living in the blue northeast"

That's fine. Laughter is good for you and I'm sure that, you, like me, didn't vote for the statist DemocRATs who oppress us.

I do like where I live and I consider the Bear flag to be one of the most pleasing of the state flags. I don't fly the Confederate battle flag but I did fly the yellow Gadsden flag below the Stars and Stripes the whole time bill clinton was in power.

Michael Frazier

[Moose4]

The vote may not have been recorded in public minutes. The article states that they used a "resolution" which does not require a public hearing, so it's entirely possible that they did it in some sort of executive session. I admit to not knowing the minutiae of such things.

It seems obvious, though, that they tried to sneak the change through with a minimum of public notice, and in fact they succeeded for a year and a half or so, until somebody got their 2006 car tax decal and spotted the change. Like I said a while back, I grew up there and I never knew there even *was* a St. Andrews Cross on the county seal. Somebody was eagle-eyed to spot it and get "offended" in the first place, and somebody else was eagle-eyed to spot the change.

}:-)4

[LikeLight]

Our Town Fathers quietly removed the words "Holy Bible" from the now unamed black book on our official seal.

[brazzaville]

Good morning.
"Bless your heart, indeed"

Thanks. I think I occasionally need someone to bless my heathen heart.

Michael Frazier

[justshutupandtakeit]

So you don't believe the actual Leaders of the Insurrection? Don't confuse the propaganda they dissemenated to the ignorant masses with the REAL reasons for things.

The leaders made it very clear that the insurrection was because of slavery.

[stand watie]

"more important things to deal with there in Virgina" ===>that why the SUPERVISORS should have left the flag ON the seal, kept their 1/2-witted/busybody mouth's SHUT and tended to the county's MORE pressing business, rather than being "PC-idiots"!

in point of FACT, the supervisors have NOBODY to blame but themselves, when they LOSE their jobs! (and that is what WILL happen the next election!) Amherst is NOT a "PC" area!

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

NOPE! it's time for the DAMNyankee LEFTISTS to get OUT of VA & VA to get OUT from under the PC-thumb of the "idiot left", PERMANENTLY.

we southrons just want to be left ALONE.

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

another DUMB & FICTICIOUS comment from "HT".

PITY that he/she is THAT UNeducated & blinded by the lunatic, PC, REVISIONIST LEFT!

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

what a BUNCH of LEFTIST, REVISIONIST bilge!

99.9% of what is wrong with the USA is a DIRECT RESULT of the LIES & SELF-righteous NONSENSE, propounded in public discourse, out of the HATE-filled northeast.

absent the northeastern LIBS, we would ALL get along fine.

perhaps the rest of the states should DIVORCE the north!

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

LEFTIST, BUSYBODIES will ALWAYS find "something to be offended at"!

they should take I-95/I-81 NORTH & NOT return!

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

YEP!

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

we "good 'ole rebs" will GLADLY "keep it relatively peaceful", WHEN the lunatic fringe of the DAMNyankee coven stops attacking the southland,our sacred/bloodspattered battleflags,our memorials, our separate culture, our southern people, etc.

till then, the war against the "busybody, yankee, LEFTISTS" continues by other means than gunfire!

WHY cannot the DYs just go "tend to their own affairs" & leave the southland alone???

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

"the north has plenty of racism"

YEP. about 10 times as much!

did you know that NY has more SEGREGATED SCHOOLS right this instant than AL,GA,LA & MS combined???

AND that there are more "KKK-idiots" in MA than in AL, GA & MS combined???

AND that the NATIONAL HQ of the KKK is in OHIO, which is NOT in dixie????

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

and swallowing that bunch of REVISIONIST/LEFTIST/south-HATING bilge, as YOU have, will not get you far in understanding either history OR the PRESENT!

PITY, that you are joining "m.eSPINola", as one of "the class DUMB-bunnies"!

free dixie,sw