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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otoh, i think it's PITIFUL that that son has a dad/mom, who is that clueLESS about history.
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the ones, who have a legitimate reason for NOT serving, COULD have done something else for the nation, like volunteering full-time in a prison/hospital/asylum/peace corps/vista/etc. instead of doing what they COULD do, 99% did NOTHING.
i suspect that "justshutup" is one of the 99%.
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Yeah. Like Ronald Reagan. And Dick Cheney.
My thinking capabilities force you to just post LIES and insults.
Repetitive LIES and insults.
Horribly repetitive lIES and insults. With a few spittle flecked illustrations of just how dumb you can be.
Why would you applaud those who enlist in the Tyranny's military services?
Nope. The founders understood what "union" meant.
Regarding you wild claim that the framers continued a "perpetual" union despite abandoning that phrase, their new potential "union" would consist of 9 members that chose to join that union. The remaining 4 members of their prior PERPETUAL "union" would be abandoned by their former associates.
But if you truly insist, then your definition of union is simply some amorphous assemblage, that has no corporal or legal component. It's just some mystical and munificent touchy-feely, kumbayah society - without any LEGAL means to prevent dissolution!
Had I my way I would have been in khaki. THEY didn't want ME.
I monitor this asylum now and keeping up with your nonsense is a full time job.
This issue is settled. Madison's letter makes it clear that the believers in the Self Destruct Buttom have nothing to base their misinformed opinions upon. There never was a time after 1776 when the Union ceased to exist. It is just as perpetual as ever.
Now lets hear the arguments alledging that "perpetual" really didn't mean perpetual. Those are real howlers.
Plenty of Union soldiers served honourably and deserve commendation for service under Lincoln.
Oh, sure but that was the incipient Tyranny now it is full blown according to the DSers, little better than a gulag.
5 states declared their independence PRIOR to 4 Jul 1776. New York did NOT assent to the Declaration until August 1776 [see yesterdays post on the subject]. Now by definition "union" would mean that the states acted in concert, together, in unison, but facts prove otherwise. 5 of 13 states acted INDEPENDENTLY of each other, followed by 7, followed by 1 straggler, is NOT and will never be indicative of unanimity!
Now lets hear the arguments alledging that "perpetual" really didn't mean perpetual. Those are real howlers.
Articles of Confederation:
Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union between the States of
New Hampshire [that's one],
Massachusetts bay [that's two],
Rhode Island and Providence Plantations [three],
Connecticut [four],
New York [five],
New Jersey [six],
Pennsylvania [seven],
Delaware [eight],
Maryland [nine],
Virginia [ten],
North Carolina [eleven],
South Carolina [twelve] and
Georgia [that makes thirteen].
US Constitution
Article VII: 'The Ratification of the Conventions ofNow in the land of the sane, NINE is less than THIRTEEN. Your bizzaro world might be different. Now if a PERPETUAL union of 13 members is shrank down to athirteennine States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same".
Funny how many guys want to tell us we're mystically bound, and then inform us that they're the high priest. Like our jerkoid friend with the bullyrag username.
I prefer Jefferson: "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility toward every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
This means you, JSUAFI.
Bully someone else, chump, your arms aren't long enough.
Yes, the federal government is given the power to put down insurrections. Now quote the Constitution and quit playing games: You are on the wrong board, to try that one. We know what the Constitution says. Now quote the rest of the clause, including the part about the call by the State in which the insurrection occurs.
It's their call, not Honest Abe's. Always was. Lincoln broke the law and broke the Constitution.
Lincoln whined about Taney's opinion in Merryman, about "all the laws but one". But Lincoln broke just about all the laws, and preserved very few of them when they got in the way of his Plan for the South.
And all so that Mrs. Vanderbilt could offer her dinner guests sapphires and rubies in their desserts as party favors.
we knew that.
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