Posted on 10/14/2013 8:57:50 AM PDT by celmak
At a tea party rally in Washington Sunday billed as the “Million Vet March,” one idiot decided to bring Confederate flag, which was enough for liberals to paint the entire Republican Party as racist.
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Why is he an idiot...
My first thought as well...
And why is he a racist?
Having been born and raised as a 'Yankee', I identified the Confederate Flag as a symbol of the U.S. Civil War; thats all.
A friend of mine from Alabama corrected me, and said that it was a symbol "for States Rights over the control of the Federal Govt.".
My state flag has a man with a gun on it, maybe we should get rid of that because it promotes violence. It even suggests violence with the Latin phrase “Tuebor” (I will defend)
I agree ... why is he an idiot?
Good on Michigan!
“Why is he an ‘idiot’?”
I see nothing idiotic about that either.
I saw him there and I was not the least bit fearful or concerned. He looked competent and sane to me, much more so than does the President when I see him in the news.
Show me a picture of the flag being carried by someone in the crowd.
This may be another liberal fraud.
I have a photograph of me at the age of 4-5 wearing a Confederate cap around the time of the 100th anniversary of the Civil War, in that southern bastion of slavery, Chicago, and with me, Eastern European in ethnic origin and my family arriving here long after the war.
Does that mean I shouldn’t even bother trying to run for political office?
And your thoughts on the Tea Party?
Good point; it has happened plenty of times before.
The disrespect shown the American Flag by this hoard is of more consequence than a Confederate flag. In fact, I am in the land of cotton, celebrated by the song Dixie, and the appearance of the rebel flag is commonplace.
Ditto for their watercarriers in the MSM.
After decades of outrageous lies, deceptions and fearmongering, their views have no legitimacy whatsoever and bear no consideration.
Those who are persuaded by these lies cannot be won over to the conservative point of view until events and personal experience open their eyes.
But admittedly, the Gadsen or Culpepper, 'Don't Tread on Me' might be more appropriate since this does seem to be more of a battle against the 'Royals' and our 'divine right' rulers.
Liberal BS only works on the historically ignorant and simple minded. So why does it work on you?
Wikipeida has this on line. I always (well not always) thought it was a Confederate Navy Jack as it may have been.
A rectangular variant of the square Confederate Army battle flag was used by a few Army units, such as the Army of Tennessee[citation needed]. Despite never having historically represented the C.S.A. as a nation nor officially recognized as one of the national flags, it is commonly referred to as “the Confederate Flag” and has become a widely recognized symbol of the South.[22] It is also known as the rebel flag, Dixie flag, and Southern cross and is often incorrectly referred to as the “Stars and Bars” (the actual “Stars and Bars” is the First National Flag, which used an entirely different design).[23] The self-declared Confederate enclave of Town Line, New York, lacking a genuine Confederate flag, flew a version of this flag prior to its 1946 vote to rejoin the Union.
20th century popularity
During the first half of the 20th century, the Confederate flag enjoyed renewed popularity. During World War II some U.S. military units with Southern nicknames, or made up largely of Southerners, made the flag their unofficial emblem. The USS Columbia flew a Confederate Navy Ensign as a battle flag throughout combat in the South Pacific in World War II. This was done in honor of Columbia, the ship’s namesake and the capital city of South Carolina, the first state to secede from the Union. Some soldiers carried Confederate flags into battle. After the Battle of Okinawa a Confederate flag was raised over Shuri Castle by a Marine from the self-styled “Rebel Company” (Company A of the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines). It was visible for miles and was taken down after three days on the orders of General Simon B. Buckner, Jr. (son of Confederate general Simon Buckner), who stated that it was inappropriate as “Americans from all over are involved in this battle”. It was replaced with the flag of the United States.[24] By the end of World War II, the use of the Confederate flag in the military was rare.[25]
Exactly. A war for state rights, that is how the Southrens viewed it. The issue of slavery was secondary.
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