Posted on 05/16/2015 1:32:34 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
A prominent attorney admits to taking flags from the graves of soldiers, a move that's sparked both positive reaction and calls for him to be arrested and disbarred. He's also received death threats and hate mail.
The lawyer says his actions are meant to promote unity.
A bag of small Confederate flags sits at Union Springs City Hall. They were removed from graves at an old Confederate cemetery downtown, behind the Red Door Theater, near the intersection of Highway 82 and North Prairie Street.
Myron Penn pulled up the flags with his family on Mother's Day. Penn, a founding partner at Penn & Seaborn Attorneys at Law in Union Springs, who served as state senator for two terms and as chairman of the Bullock County Commission, says he did it for his 4-year-old son.
The reason why we picked them up is because the image of the flags in our community, a lot of people feel that they're a symbol of divisiveness and oppression of many people in our community, Penn said. Especially with the history that that flag and the connotation and negativism that it brings. I would think that no one in our community would have a problem with this or with my actions at all.
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Colors are backwards in the first map.
No, you crawl back under the rock you crawled out of, treasonous prole. That isn’t the flag they swore to defend.
The only jackass here is you bud. The DoD also pays$700 dollars for toilet seats. Not to bright on either end.
So now you have fully established yourself as anti-veteran.
38 U.S. Code § 2306
(a) The Secretary shall furnish, when requested, appropriate Government headstones or markers at the expense of the United States for the unmarked graves of the following:
(3) Soldiers of the Union and Confederate Armies of the Civil War.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/38/2306
And you might want to stay out of Georgia. Or better yet, keep yourself out of the south completely.
Ga Code § 50-3-9. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to mutilate, deface, defile, or abuse contemptuously the flag of the United States, the flag, coat of arms, or emblem of the State of Georgia, or the flag or emblem of the Confederate States of America by any act whatever.
50-3-11. Any person, firm, or corporation who violates any provision of Code Section 50-3-8 or 50-3-9 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
And, whatever you do, don’t read about Fighting Joe Wheeler - it would probably make you blow a gasket.
It’s already happening and it’s infuriating.
You’re right. It’s pointless to talk to the like of you and you’re ilk. You’re not Americans any more than your ancestors were.
Slavery, then? Is that not what the South was fighting for? Oh, wait, it was ‘’independence’’. Right. So it could go on maintaining that ‘’particular institution’’.
Are only those killed in battle buried there or are Confederate veterans also interned there?
I’m not ‘’anti-veteran’’ bub, only anti-Confederate. Got it?
BS — I prefer not to debate with someone whose head is encased in cement. Have a Dixie Day!
Irony is lost on you Madame. The War is over. Your side lost.
Last words: The CSA did not lose. There was never a formal surrender and President Jefferson Davis was never tried for treason or any other charge.
There were no real winners in the war of Northern Aggression, but slavery increased exponenially when the Union reigned over Reconstruction and ensured the U.S. government functioned as a plantation for the entire nation — as it still does today.
Uh, did you miss April 9, 1865, Appomattox Court House? Lee signed the surrender there. The only reason Davis wasn’t hung was because of the mercy of Lincoln. Guess you missed The Emancipation Proclamation too, huh?
You are an ass typical of the self righteous predatory mentality of the yankee species.
The Ku Klux Klan, aka “The Terror Wing of The Democrat Party’’.
Have you got a pint to make or is ad hominems all you’ve got?
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