And here is a link to a Texas Klan chapter. What's that flying proudly in the upper right hand corner? Why it's the confederate battle flag.
Here's another link to the National Knights of the KKK. Same flag, different location
Like it or not your banner has been appropriated by some pretty crummy organizations and I don't hear y'all complaining about it much
Yea, and your yankee flag has flown over some pretty sorry things too... the brutal attacks on peaceful, soverign nations like Yugoslavia, the CSA, etc, Mai Lai, Wounded Knee, Waco, Ruby Ridge. The list goes on and on.
Lets ban that evil yankee flag and make it a hate crime to display it, OK?
Much the same with the Koran and the Bible. Could we get some muslims denouncing the Taliban and the concept of a Jihad? Not the notion that this is an unjust holy war, that there is no just holy war.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LoanPalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
The Stars and Bars is a part of a hertiage that my ancestors gave their lives to defend. All the Klansmen from hell cannot change the valor and loyalty to country that was given in defense of a nation.
It took me a while to get back to you... I had already logged off when you replied to me.
I AM complaining about it!
As an SCV member I find it offensive for the KKK to use the Confederate flag. As an American, it's equally offensive for them to use the American flag.
The image you posted was from the "modern" KKK; even more of a joke compared to the old one, which was far more sinister.
I am not going to click on your links because I just don't care what they have to say.
Their ideology is as morally & intellectually bankrupt as communism to me.
The last Klan "rally" I saw on TV had all of, say, ten or fifteen people? Oooh... Really scary!
I will find the picture I have been referring to & post it.
Hey bud! The Swastika was a symbol of luck and power dating back to ancient times, the Nazis adopted it in 1932 and now it is synonymous with the Nazis and hate. So what happened to the other 1000 some odd years before those turds came down the pike?
Now for your assertion about the Confederate Battle Flag. It was the flag that many brave Southerners fought and died for. It IS integrated and IS a part of American history. Like it or not, that's the way it is!
If you knew anything at all about history, you would realize that the winners of wars always write their version of history and claim it to be fact. Such is the case with the slavery issue ... a little secret for you here, dude ... the Civil War was about States rights, and started because of economics ... it had nothing to do with slavery.
Slavery became a major issue to draw popular support for the Union in 1863 ( TWO YEARS AFTER THE WAR STARTED)due to the fact many Northerners, were becoming disenchanted with the war and its casualties, and starting to vocally dissent. The South had been winning major battles up until then. In essence the "slavery issue" was nothing more than a bandwagon issue. AND when Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, he only freed the slaves south of the Mason Dixon Line, but nothing was mentioned about the slaves being used in Baltimore, Maryland which was north of the Mason Dixon Line.
IN FACT you had more severe rioting against, and abuse of Blacks by Northerners, than you ever had in the South during the war. Not to mention the atrocities and rapes committed by Northern troops (under the command of General William Techumseh Sherman (USA)) on the Negro populace of the South during their March to the Sea in 1864.
New York experienced the worst race riots in 1863 wherein several blacks were killed by white NEW YORKERS!
There were also a couple of untis of Negro Soldiers who fought for the Confederacy during the war, so now you tell me that the Southerners were racist. All the above information is true and recorded history.
In closing all I can tell you is that your ignorance of history is only exceeded by the ignorance in your posting.
"Gee, I got this picture off of the American Knights of the KKK website. It's a tee shirt that they sell. So what is that pictured in the background? Behind the guys with the pillowcases on their heads?"
Are you talking the cross or the Confederate battle flag?
The KKK has adopted both symbols it seems. Are you suggesting that because those assh*les use these symbols we should .... what ... abrogate displaying the cross or confederate flag ... or both?
Yes. And the cross was the symbol used by the German Army in World War II. Any idiot can appropriate any image and twist it to seem to support his cause, just like any idiot can post on Free Republic. "Gee" I just saw the image you posted on Free Republic. That means Free Republic supports the Klan, right? We don't have time chase down every fool who misuses the CSA flag, just like we don't have time to reply to every fool on FR. We pick our spots.
Here's a link to the real flag of the KKK:
http://www.rulen.com/kkk/
To use your own words:
"Like it or not your banner has been appropriated by some pretty crummy organizations and I don't hear you complaining about it much"
Hoisted on your own petard, huh?
Non-Sequitur = Non-Sense