My great-great grandfather was a Confederate soldier & fought at Shiloh. It is just beyond asinine the histrionics the left is raising. - I can see not having Rebel flags flying over government buildings; but removing them over CONFEDERATE MONUMENTS is knee-jerk. - This is supposed to be a FREE country.
I agree about the left’s histrionics. If the Confederacy is part of the history of a state, why not fly that flag over government buildings which were, and are, paid for by southern sympathizers and descendents of Confederate soldiers as much as by “Yankees” and their supporters.
It is the misrepresentation of history in the form of outright lies by the left that disturbs me the most. Abraham Lincoln made the War of Northern Aggression all about slavery as a war tactic when the South was winning. January, 1863 he issued the Emancipation Proclamation which DID NOT free the slaves in the north. He desired the submission of the south because the north couldn’t stand the loss of taxes and other revenues they received from the south. The war was NOT fought over slavery, but over the States Rights to govern themselves. NOW, we are fighting over Articles of the Constitution which the left wants to destroy. FREE SPEECH, Freedom of Religion, the RIGHT to keep and bear arms, the Right to not be deprived of ones possessions without DUE PROCESS, etc. etc. etc. And ALL the hoopla over the Confederate States and particularly over the ARMY of Northern Virginia’s Battle Flag is designed to INCREASE RACIAL TENSION and BUY VOTES from the uninformed....or i should say, MISINFORMED. You’re right, this is SUPPOSED to be a FREE Country, but it isn’t any longer.
“Never let a crisis go to waste.”
Dylan Roof, a mentally disturbed young man, is photographed with a Confederate flag in the background and the American Taliban on the left sees an opportunity and pounces, using its MSM assets to mau-mau the issue.
Mexican and central American illegals kill Americans every day on our streets, piers and highways, but—what a surprise: no one is demanding that display of Mexican or central American flags be banned.