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Alabama Gov. Bentley removes Confederate flags from Capitol grounds
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| 06/24/2015
| Charles Dean
Posted on 06/24/2015 8:50:37 AM PDT by GIdget2004
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To: GIdget2004
I am in Montgomery right now. Did you know the state of Alabama has a tourist campaign called "Montgomery, the cradle of the Confederacy"?
There are historical markers and signs on the roads here, for goodness sakes, and yes, they have Confederate flags on them.
So far, the signs are still up...
The whole thing is a diversion, as so many have already said.
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posted on
06/24/2015 9:38:19 AM PDT
by
Alas Babylon!
(As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
To: Alas Babylon!
With RINO Bentley as governor all these state markers will come down. When the people of Alabama elected this idiot over Roy Moore I knew they had lost their collective minds. He also caved on queer marriage, so caving on his state’s heritage is small potatoes for him.
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posted on
06/24/2015 9:43:11 AM PDT
by
NKP_Vet
To: Beowulf9; Mr. K
That is exactly how I feel. Knee jerk, useless reactions
I call it: 'Feel good, do nothing liberalism'.
The left feels like their having a huge impact. Railing against symbolism rather than substance is easier. And causes their brain to release endorphins, and to most liberally inclined robots - feeling good about oneself due to some percieved good being done is all that matters.
Facts and reality remain unimportant factors in this equation.
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posted on
06/24/2015 10:19:40 AM PDT
by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
To: GIdget2004
To: Bobby_Taxpayer
the dont tread on me flag Its proper name is the Gadsden flag.
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posted on
06/24/2015 10:39:07 AM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: GIdget2004
Reconstruction is here to stay...
To: rktman
Here in VA, I recall the Sons of the Confederacy display a large Confederate Battle Flag right by I-95, south of Richmond and, predictably, the carpet baggers, libs and dish!ts’ heads explode...*giggle*
To: Himyar
No we’re not.This scumbag
Ain’t heard nothing yet,people are pissed.
To: GIdget2004
If we are going to ban the Confederate Flag as a symbol of slavery, then to be consistent, we have to ban the Stars and Stripes too.
It flew over slavery and slave transporting ships for much, much longer than any flag of the Confederacy. If the logic is that the flag flew over slave-owning lands, then the Stars and Stripes has to go, as well.
Heck, even the Ku Klux Klan flew the Stars and Stripes in their rallies...
If we go down that road, we will continue to be lopsided in our views, unaware of our own history.
So What's next? Are they going to take down the Flag of the United States too?
By capitulating because an evil nutjob like Dylann Roof slaughtered 9 innocent black Christians, aren't we providing incentive for the next nutjob to do something similar?
To: Sacajaweau
I am sympathetic to the view of black Americans who see that flag as a symbol of the state which fought to keep their ancestors in chains.
But once you start selectively censoring your own history like this you are on a very slippery slope.
And frankly, if you are a black American, freed from slavery, with all of the Constitutional freedoms, rights and opportunities that this nation provides, I don’t know how you can expend that much emotion or mental energy on the flag of an extinct entity.
To: KC_Lion
Hey, let’s ban Budweiser and Seagram’s and Gold’s Gym (he was wearing their T-shirt) and dig up everything he ever bought.
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06/24/2015 3:20:23 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
( I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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