And all in the name of unity...
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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And all in the name of unity...
Yeah...
...NO!
Wouldn’t it be a hoot if several masked men showed up and gave him a whooping, “In the name of unity”?
(And I’m Black so...) Of course, nobody could object!
Horse’s ass!
OMG...He’s black. There’s a surprise. He belongs in jail. That’s theft.
How about someone hold him down and paint him white in the name of unity?
Well, you think wrong then. The only thing I have from my Great Grand Father that fought in the War Between the States is his picture. I am going to visit his grave tomorrow for my families annual decoration day, which has been held on the third Sunday in May for at least the past 100 years. The Confederacy started and stopped with his generation.
In Georgia, all of our Confederate cemeteries fly the Stars and Bars from a pole at the entrance gates. If a person cannot respect a veteran's grave he has no business trespassing in the cemetery in the first place.
There are CSA Vets buried in National Cemeteries. Does this self anointed one Enforcer Of Political Correctness want to remove their grave markers as well?
IT’s too bad that some people can’t understand that the past is the past.
"“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.”
I’ve never thought of the Confederacy in the wrong, with regards to states rights. As recent as pre-obama, the relatives of those deceased never would have dreamed that those graves would be robbed of their flags.
But if the left has their way, us veterans reading this right now will likely have their US stars and stripes removed from their graves in 50 years or less by some left wing jerk trying to promote unity. This country’s new flag will likely be a cross between a Mexican flag and a peace symbol with a donkey thrown in somehow.
Well, heck-sakes! I have a problem with it, and I am in California and my forebears fought for the Union. So?? Leave the graves alone, buddy!!
Man is an idiot.
Grave desecration.
Hang him.
“I would think that no one in our community would have a problem with this or with my actions at all.”
Except that it is a grave and you had no authority to desecrate it with your half-assed attempt to erase history instead of teaching it to your 4 year old son.
“That said, what flag matters to you? The Stars And Stripes or The Stars And Bars? “
My answer: Both. Good men died under both flags.
People of his ilk invite the worst kind of change - like islam - where they cut the hands off of thieves and grave molesters like him. For a first offense I’d recommend community service. Say 180 days of planting and maintaining all of the CBT flags in the cemetery ;’)
If the left has any say it will be multi-hued and sexually ambiguous.
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