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.

[lentulusgracchus]

Funny, there seems to be just a whole lot of contemplation of the acts and meaning of secession.

And no call for vast armies.

What gives?

[4CJ]

What gives?

Crickets? ;o)

[rustbucket]

Excellent post.

[lentulusgracchus]

I concur, it's a very good find.

Sounds like someone forgot to check with John Jay and John Marshall first. Oops.

;^*

[M. Espinola]

"Then they snarl filth at not only those who preserved the Union they live in, but the Union itself."

So very true. When one refers to America so contemptuously as stating "Amerika." the hidden, seething hate comes through loud and clear. It's disgusting how much they really despise this nation, yet not enough to permanently get the hell out on the next flight. Just like the leftist commies & filthy hippies they will verbally blast the very country which allows them the freedom to express their seditious attempts at civil insurrection, since in other nations the governments would throw the whole lot of them in the clink!

Today's collection of neo-confederates trumpet the old slavery system of the pre-1865 South as some kind of romantic land of magnolias and sun drenched cotton fields, where the ever smiling slaves toiled happily for their kindly white masters.

According to the neo-confeds the plantation slaves flocked to kill the "damnyankees" and then of course would willingly return to the cotton fields after serving Slavery Inc. What a pack of lies, and this bunch knows it, yet they always try perpetuating the same worn out lie since maybe some uninformed schemeil might stumble in and buy it, hook line and dixie cup.

The sickly little "Confederate Vice President" Alexander Stephens who said shortly after the founding of the insurrectionist "Confederacy", "Our new government's foundations are laid. Its cornerstone rests upon the great truth that the Negro is not equal to the white man, that slavery -- subordination to the superior race -- is his natural and normal condition."

Yet according to the neo-confeds for the entire duration of the Civil War the plantation slaves cheerfully flocked to fight side by side the same low life s-o-b who flogged & abuse them for mega-profits. What a lot of crap.

The Lost Cause Squad seems to diminish in size with every neo-confederate propaganda thread.

The disenfranchised disciples of DeLorenzo's disinformation department never tire in spreading their outlandish fables concerning the Civil War period as well as the many years of Jim Crow.

Some of those in question mask longing for 'the good old days' when 'good old boys' with half a brain cell could feel so superior while viciously abusing & threatening fellow Americans whenever they felt like it, since abuse & threats were "legal" in the Jim Crow South.

If the promoters of Dixie Deception Inc were placed on a polygraph machine the poor machine would rapidly overload from repetitive lies.

Those in question are a real embarrassment to the GOP. Check out this "Southern" website. Note the banner they use for this hate website: Southern Advocates for Slavery

Quote from the website:

"This page is dedicated to the cause of preserving God's divine law. The contents herein support the ideology of slavery as an institution appointed by God. The arguments are informative and convincing. If a supporter already or looking for information, this site is worthy to of consideration."

Notice whomever these schmucks are they do not mention an address for their Southern pro-slavery "group".

[Gianni]

Where is this knucklehead getting this stuff? He still hasn't told us whom he's quoting. Wasn't your guess Farber?

Quoting, or channelling.

[stand watie]

yet ANOTHER dumb-bunny post from FR's DUMB-bunny in chief.

everything you post, MR SPIN, is either STUPID, BIGOTED,FOOLISH or simply WRONG.

take your buddy "jsu&ti" & dance out the door to DU & go be with walt, #3fan,cvn76,capitan refugio & a HOST of other DAMNyankee/scalawag EX-Freepers.

free dixie,sw

[lentulusgracchus]

By your and Farber's definition, Washington could have marched troops into RI and NC and forced them to ratify at gunpoint (them being members of the "union" and all).

Does our friend JSUAFI remind you at all of "Vigo" from Ghostbusters II? He sure does remind me.

JSUAFI [Post #507]:

Madison settled this issue theoretically. Andy Jackson practically begged for a chance to do so militarily but the South Carolina cowards slunk away and didn't give him the chance. And Lincoln settled it practically and permanently.

Compare that with "Vigo" declaiming in Ghostbusters,

"Atop a mountain of skulls, I ruled from a throne of blood !!"

Life just doesn't get any better, right?

I'm going to go find that famous Genghis Khan quote, the one Ahnuld quoted in Conan the Barbarian, in reply to the question, "What is best in life?"

[justshutupandtakeit]

"YOU HATER" yadayadayada. Still boring as ever standly

[justshutupandtakeit]

Why would Jim want to wade through all you Supporters of Traitors' garbage?

I am sure he has much more important things to do like watching paint dry.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Patterson must not have understood the intent of the Founders.
It is certainly clear enough to all others of importance.

[justshutupandtakeit]

These clowns are like the old Japanese soldiers who wander out of the jungle from time to time and refusing to admit the War was over long ago and all that the fought for is long gone.

And the complete incompatibility of the lost IgNoble Cause with humanity and modernity is utterly lost on them.

The terrorists they support were more dangerous to our Nation than Osama yet they claim to somehow oppose him. How they could defend this horrible Tyranny requires more mental flipflops than a pancake.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Not at all the hairsplitting and arguments over legal form of the Union is all on your side. It was a Union which existed even though all the states did not ratify the Articles until 1781 when the War was almost over. The "Peace" which followed was not ratified for another two years but was no less real than the Union which had won it in spite of incomplete paperwork.

[justshutupandtakeit]

I have quoted the US Constitution not the Constitution of the Delusional.

[justshutupandtakeit]

States which contributed their own efforts also contributed to the efforts of the Union. There was a common diplomacy when dealing with other nations on issues affecting the Union. States handling things with their territory which did not affect the Union does not change the fact of speaking as One to other Nations.

Patterson was referring to the only possible legal way such a course could be done he was not saying New Hampshire could do it.

[justshutupandtakeit]

YOu believe a state can create an American not born within the US? Please inform the waiting crowds as to HOW?

[justshutupandtakeit]

Can't read the Constitution? It explicitly says how citizenship is obtained and by whose law. But I forget you keep confusing the Constitution of the Delusional with the United States Constitution.

[justshutupandtakeit]

KNowing you boys' tendency to cheery pick quotes which are used to completely distort the author's intention I will withold judgment on this little bon mot.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Some of us are not inclined to spend 24/7 rewinning past wars but prefer to indulge in high culture and evenings with real friends.

We'll leave stand to yawl.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Typical the you would equate a third rater to a giant like Marshall.