[arielb]

drop those kids over Afghanistan if they hate our country so much. This is supposed to be the UNITED States of America

[casings]

Say what?????

[Jethro Tull]

#6: Doesn't your concept of the United States recognize the 1st amendment?

[dixierat22]

Maybe we should drop intolerant foks like yourself over Afghanistan. Unless things have changed, the 1st Amendment still allows freedom of expression. Even if you or I disagree with it.

[billbears]

And the chant begins. Come on everybody!! EMPIRE!! EMPIRE!! EMPIRE!!

God forbid these young men and women of the South actually remember the words written into the Constitution instead of the ones implied into it by the likes of the Great Tyrant, FDR, and Slick Willie

[PistolPaknMama]

drop those kids over Afghanistan if they hate our country so much.

Say what? I didn't see this in the article anywhere. Did it say the kids hate America or did you just make it up?

[HELLRAISER II]

Now wait a minute, I'm just as Patriotic as the next guy I even have an Old Glory Lapel pin on as we speak. But I am also a Devout Southern Rebel flag flying enthusiast. We have College Professors & our own people saying we deserved to be bombed because of our involvement in the Middle East & you think that kids wearing a Rebel Flag T-shirt need to be sent to Afghanistan because of this. Your the one that needs to think about your Patriotism not these kids. As a Confederate Flag supporter I might clue you in on the fact that it is a Southern pride thing, not an I hate America thing as a matter of fact until recently when our so called nutless legislature changed it, it was our state flag in Georgia. My point is, rethink your position you are wrong.

[angry beaver norbert]

I have Old Glory on my lawn, and the Confederate flag on the wall over my computer.To my left, in a cabinet, is a Southern Cross of Honor that a relative long ago fought for. I LOVE AMERICA, and would give my life to defend it. I am an 'Equal Freedom Confederate American', and as such I am highly offended by intolerance of my Confederate heritage, and the assumtion that we are any less patriotic than anyone else. Note the city of Berkley,Ca. They sure ain't from around here.

[Mark17]

It is totalitarians who make this an un-United States. Are you one of those totalitarians?

[Goetz_von_Berlichingen]

"drop those kids over Afghanistan if they hate our country so much."

You got that half right.

Southerners have always been the most patriotic Americans, and the ones most likely to enlist in the armed forces. Why do you think a southern drawl is almost de rigeur in all of the branches?

I can almost guarantee that the people waving Confederate flags are the ones MOST likely to sign up and MOST likely to end up in combat units.

So there is a very good chance that these boys will be dropped "over Afganistan" or anywhere else when their country calls, and they will go willingly because that is their Southern tradition, of which the Confederacy and its images are an integral part.

[tberry]

"This is supposed to be the UNITED States of America"

YES and in the United States of America you are supposed to have "freedom of speech." You know, like the protection given to Larry Flint's Hustler Magazine when it shows hairy pu*sy openly to the kids of the USA.

We are also supposed to have "freedom of association" but the government routinely makes people associate with those they do not want to associate with, under threat of law.

Forbidding the Confederate Flag is a PC infringement and tyranny to the Constitution.