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Well, you've got a colleague who says he owes no allegiance to the stars and stripes and doesn't fly it. Maybe there are more like him out there.

Billbears is entitled to his own opinions. How they have anything to do with what I said escapes me.

This idea that if the Confederate Battle Flag doesn't fly, the Stars and Stripes will come down too appeals to a lot of people, but it's pretty self-serving, and how much sense is there in it?

Look at the people who want it taken down. Leftists. The reason they are zeroing in on the CBF is that it is politically easier to target southerners. At least, today it is. If they can demonize an entire culture in this country, it's not long before they demonize everything that is uniquely American. And let's face it: much of what is uniquely American can be traced to the south.

What flag would we fly if not Old Glory?

Depends on who gets their way. If the statist-oriented "conservatives" on this forum and elsewhere get their way, we'll fly whatever they tell us too. It's far more likely, however, that the lefties will get their way which means either 1) a UN flag 2) a rainbow flag or 3) something with a crescent in it.

Look at the people who want it taken down. Leftists. The reason they are zeroing in on the CBF is that it is politically easier to target southerners.

Some of this is membership drives on the part of groups like the NAACP. Some of it involves local issues. You'd do better to sit down with your neighbors on the other side than rant about outsiders.

If they can demonize an entire culture in this country, it's not long before they demonize everything that is uniquely American.

I'd give "demonization" a rest. If you say that people who disagree with you are "demonizing" you, aren't you "demonizing" them? Demonizations of one sort or another are a distraction. That's what people do or accuse each other of doing because they're not interested in having a real debate.

If the statist-oriented "conservatives" on this forum and elsewhere get their way, we'll fly whatever they tell us too.

Meaning who? McCain? Romney? Giuliani? Bush? Are they really out to tear down Old Glory?

Whatever you think of them, they're probably more loyal to the country than "anti-statist" libertarians are.