To: BlueLancer
>>Why people should care that they see it as a symbolic threat is beyond me <<
It is not a symbolic threat — it is the symbol OF a threat. It means “leave or we will kill you.”
57 posted on
02/27/2010 8:51:28 AM PST by
freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
To: freedumb2003
"It is not a symbolic threat — it is the symbol OF a threat. It means “leave or we will kill you.”" BS ...
I know my history ... I refuse to let some fringe group minority decide to reserve part of it for their own interpretation.
58 posted on
02/27/2010 8:55:00 AM PST by
BlueLancer
(I'm getting a fine tootsy-frootsying right here...)
To: freedumb2003
You’re the one who first used the term “symbolic threat”. I simply carried on from there.
59 posted on
02/27/2010 8:56:21 AM PST by
BlueLancer
(I'm getting a fine tootsy-frootsying right here...)
To: freedumb2003
"It is not a symbolic threat — it is the symbol OF a threat. It means “leave or we will kill you.”"Blacks were shot. Blacks were whipped. Blacks were drowned. Does water become a symbolic threat? Does a whip mean anything more than that? How about a gun?
Sorry, I'm not willing to cede a fringe minority group the right to take an object and make it such that it means only what they want it to mean.
60 posted on
02/27/2010 8:58:23 AM PST by
BlueLancer
(I'm getting a fine tootsy-frootsying right here...)
To: freedumb2003
It means “leave or we will kill you.” Then maybe they better leave.
70 posted on
02/27/2010 9:22:19 AM PST by
Centurion2000
(Something is seriously wrong when the .gov plans to treat citizens worse than they treat terrorists)
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