LSU students plan tailgate protests of Confederate flag

espn ^ | Sep. 1, 2006

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D-I-X-I-E ping

[saganite]

Got a pic of the flag in question?

[goldstategop]

Liberals. They're intolerant of others right to express themselves.

(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )

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Article from the 2005 season: Protesters Take On LSU's Confederate-Style Flag

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Posted earlier on Free Republic. Its in LSU's yellow colors rather than the traditional orange. The Left hates people for being politically incorrect. Southern Heritage be damned! This is what they're kicking up a fuss about:

Looks cool to me!

(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )

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Beat me by 2 minutes

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GO LSU

[saganite]

Looks pretty harmless to me!

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So Mr. Phillips tried to quash the flag, the authorities declined to do so, people expressed approval and disapproval, and the argument continues. Now Phillips is going to stage his own tailgate parties to try to win people over.

Sounds to me pretty much like the way free speech is supposed to work.

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Sounds more like a group therapy session than a tailgate party.

Congratulations to Phillips for driving up Confederate flag sales!

[WLR]

Those on both side who actually fought the war were far better men and women Black, White or Brown than the Sniveling Little Leftist Jackasses who know nothing of either the conflict, why it was fought or those who served then or serve now

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THOSE REBEL FLAGS
by John Howard Jewett
(1843-1925)

Shall we send back the Johnnies their bunting,
In token, from Blue to the Gray,
That "Brothers-in-blood" and "Good Hunting"
Shall be our new watchword to-day?
In olden times knights held it knightly
To return to brave foemen the sword;
Will the Stars and the Stripes gleam less brightly
If the old Rebel flags are restored?

Call it sentiment, call it misguided
To fight to the death for "a rag";
Yet, trailed in the dust, derided,
The true soldier still loves his flag!
Does love die, and must honor perish
When colors and causes are lost?
Lives the soldier who ceases to cherish
The blood-stains and valor they cost?

Our battle-fields, safe in the keeping
Of Nature's kind, fostering care,
Are blooming,--our heroes are sleeping,--
And peace broods perennial there.
All over our land rings the story
Of loyalty, fervent and true;
"One flag," and that flag is "Old Glory,"
Alike for the Gray and the Blue.

Why cling to those moth-eaten banners?
What glory or honor to gain
While the nation is shouting hosannas,
Uniting her sons to fight Spain?
Time is ripe, and the harvest worth reaping,
Send the Johnnies their flags f.o.b.,
Address to the care and safe keeping
Of that loyal "old Reb," Fitzhugh Lee!

Yes, send back the Johnnies their bunting,
With greetings from Blue to the Gray;
We are "Brothers-in-blood," and "Good Hunting"
Is America's watchword to-day.

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Sounds more like a group therapy session than a tailgate party.

That would depend on whether or not beer is present.

The results will tell. If he convinces folks not to fly the flag -- not because it's evil or racist or whatever, but because it would be rude -- then he's won his point.

[WLR]

but because it would be rude

You don't really subscribe to that notion do you?

That it is rude to fly the Stars and Bars?


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[TYVets]

Great looking flag!

Who sells them?

[Wonder Warthog]

"Its in LSU's yellow colors rather than the traditional orange."

Actually, its gold and purple, replacing the battle flag's red and blue. There is also an "inverted" version, with the background and stars purple, and the stripes gold.

[tkathy]

Maybe they should consider the harm they are doing to the country and the truckloads of cannon fodder they are handing to the dims.

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not to fly the flag -- not because it's evil or racist or whatever, but because it would be rude

But his point is that it IS evil and racist,
a point mistaken and misguided to be sure.

[gcruse]

That's ugly. A rendering of the Stars and Stripes in green, yellow, and brown would be just as repulsive. Either fly the battle flag or find something else.