[WhiskeyPapa]

This is a bad flag also.

[ladtx]

No no no. Looks too much like Confederate flag, it's got God on it, that's a no go in itself. Maybe just a plain ol' white flag.

[curmudgeonII]

I'd expect to see litigation from the ACLU over the word God in a state flag.

[DoughtyOne]

Georgia introduced this new state flag on January 31, 2001 following
objections to the previous design's emphasis on the Confederate Battle
Flag.

It never ends folks.

PC KILLS Historical accuracy

[DoughtyOne]

This is a compromise, as someone states? ROTFL This is what is commonly called a surrender.

[Michael.SF.]

Now why would any body think the new flag reminds them of the old Stars and bars? Actually, since most of the people complaining are probably victims of the public education system, they won't know what the Stars and Bars looked like:

Confederate Stars and Bars
The First Official Flag of the Confederacy.

Although less well known than the "Confederate Battle Flags", the Stars and Bars was used as the official flag of the Confederacy from March 1861 to May of 1863.

[HELLRAISER II]

It's not a bad flag but I would prefer our old State flag the way it was before this nonsense started with King Roy. However I would accept the majority decision of the people of the state of Georgia if & when we the people get to vote on the issue.

[flying Elvis]

The mention of God is a smart political move. It will flush out the ACLU types in Georgia, exposing the left as it really is.

[Constantine XIII]

he he he, that'll tweak the lefties worse than what they started with before this whole farce got started!

LOL

[tet68]

They still don't get it.

It could be the best design in the world,
if they don't let the people have a say in it,
THEY are toast.
Vote'em out.

[rattrap]

OK, here's one of the biggest deals. the crap going on over the flag is costing atlanta one of its biggest businesses, conventions. sonny purdue waffles on every issue he can as much as he can, he was on royal marshall's radio show one evening and dodged every question like it was a big red ball in 7th grade gym. i won't vote for sonny again unless he grows a pair and starts to stand for something.

onto the 'heritage' issue. there is no heritage except the heritage of thumbing your nose at the civil rights movement in the '56 flag. it was adopted by bigots for the express purpose of promoting just what the hate groups who wear the flag today adopted it for. for heritage see the pre-'56 flag. then i can understand the argument. i have nothing against the confederate battle emblem or the stars and bars, but the '56 - '01 flag is not a 'hertiage' i want to celebrate or be a part of. i will vote against any flag resembling the '56 flag in the referendum.

[goldstategop]

I love the design. And the words in God We Trust will drive the ACLU theophobes NUTS. Go Georgia!!!

[spodefly]

This new design is fine, we'll take it. Now can we please shut up about it? We have spent way too much time and effort on this nonsense, and it can't be justified as pragmatic in any way, shape or form.

I understand why people are offended by the post '56 design. I understand why people hate how King Roy changed it in a secret back room deal to the baby blue nonsense we have now.

But enough is enough. This design is fine, or the pre-'56 will work too. Good to go. Now move on.

FYI -- I was born and raised in Georgia. My ancestors have lived here for the better part of 200 years. I have framed on my wall the land plot for my Great-Great-Grandfather's farm in Shriven country that was pillaged by Sherman as he moved to SC. I should have some passion on the flag issue, but mostly I think it is a wasteful tempest in a teapot.

Carry on.

[mac_truck]

GA Flag ping

[GOPcapitalist]

This is a bad flag also.

...there you have it! Straight from the mouth of the south-hating PC-monger who also made these statements:

"All these deaths of U.S. citizens --the death of EVERY U.S. citizen killed by Arab terror in the United States, can be laid directly at the feet of George Bush I." - WhiskeyPapa, 11/15/02
SOURCE: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/786927/posts?page=452#448

"I'll say again that based on what I knew in 1992, I would vote for Bill Clinton ten times out of ten before I would vote for George Bush Sr." - WhiskeyPapa, 11/15/02
SOURCE: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/786927/posts?q=1&&page=401#420

"As you doubtless know, the separation of powers in that Pact with the Devil we call our Constitution, gives only Congress the right to raise and spend money." - WhiskeyPapa, 11/15/02
SOURCE: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/786927/posts?page=432#432

"First of all, the AJC [Atlanta Journal-Constitution] is -not- an "ultra-leftist" newspaper, and you know it." - WhiskeyPapa, 11/13/02
SOURCE: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/784464/posts?page=70#70

"I feel that admiration for Reagan has rightly diminished over time, and rightly so." - WhiskeyPapa, 11/15/02
SOURCE: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/786927/posts?page=432#432

"I don't retract any of that." - WhiskeyPapa in reference to the liberal statements found above, 11/26/02
SOURCE: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/796067/posts?page=146#146

"If you non-U.S. citizens are wondering what the electoral college is and what bunch of ninnies thought it up:  The US Constitution was written by rich white men like Washington, Madison, Hamilton, Randolph, and others.   They wrote it for the benefit of rich white men like themselves.  They didn't trust the common man --at all--, hence the college of electors, who didn't (and don't) necessarily have to vote for the candidate that carries their state.  Here in Georgia, I didn't vote for Al Gore.  I voted for nine Democratic Party hacks that promise to vote for Al when the college meets in December.  Yeah, I know its crazy, but it works." - Walt, aka WhiskeyPapa, explaining the electoral college to Europeans, 11/12/00
SOURCE: soc.history.war.world-war-ii newsgroup

"What the Reagan adminstration did was worse than Watergate. But he was a nicer guy than Nixon, so he skated. Also, despite all the Reagan worship, I don't think he ever made a tough decision." - WhiskeyPapa, 3/10/03
SOURCE: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/859649/posts?page=38#38

"I think the Bushes both to incompetent clowns." - WhiskeyPapa, 3/10/03
SOURCE: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/859649/posts?page=38#38

"I'd vote for Gore again over Bush jr. It was a no-brainer that if Junior was elected, we'd have Senior running things, and I bet he is. Surely no one thinks that Junior has enough brains to get all this rolling. Cheney and Powell are going to run the war -- to clean up the mess they made 12 years ago." - WhiskeyPapa, 3/18/03
SOURCE: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/866612/posts?page=19#19

[Windcatcher]

Even up here (PA) I tend to see the Confederate flag a lot, depending on where I am at the time, and, to not put too fine a point on it, depending on who's company I'm in. If I'm in a heavily populated area about the only time I ever see it is on the front of a pickup truck (we don't require front license plates here so you can put what you like there) or being worn by a biker. When I go inland towards rural PA, however, I see it a lot more (still only on license plates, but it's a lot more common). I also have some friends in the rock band scene, and in some of the places they play the'll wear the flag openly. It's really weird--bear in mind this is a *northern* state. I'm wondering if a lot of the Confederate- and Southern-bashing going on isn't so much due to northerners hating the South as urbanites hating rural folks. From conversations I hear where I live (southeast PA, which is pretty heavily populated) people here seem to hold rural folks in universal contempt.

North vs. South? Or City mouse vs. country mouse? Comments welcome.

[stand watie]

YEP it is.

and i predict right now that it will be shot down and the post-1956 flag will fly again EVERYWHERE in GA!

the CSA desendents will accept NOTHING less. NOT now, NOT ever!

free dixie,sw

[Fraulein]

Georgia's state flag would be changed immediately, with a public vote to follow

What am I missing in this picture? Shouldn't the procedure go the other way around?

Signed,
a Georgia Peach

[graycamel]

I don't give a rat's @#$. I'm not from there. I was born in Calif, and now live in MO.

[WhiskeyPapa]

Today:

[tinacart]

I feel very sad for Georgians. You will all end up like the People's Republic of California, you are certainly on your way...

"In God We Trust" - well, that's giving us some hope, but think it will "fly?"