This must piss you off.
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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Doesn’t matter who uses it; anyone with a grade-school understanding of basic grammar knows such usage is incorrect.
Your questions don’t deserve an answer, except for one. Yes, I AM a Southerner and an American. I’ll live and die loving the South.
You say you’re not a Northerner/Yankee, just American, and yet you just posted that you’re glad you’re not us.
Which is it? Can’t have it both ways, LOL.
If he was picking the flag off my ancestor’s grave I would not be feelin the unity. What this jerk is trying to do is just force the rest of us to conform to what he wants. At least let him be honest about it.
In the contraction, "y'all"---what are the two words that are the basis for it?
If you can't figure that out, jma, there's no hope for you.
" You’ve made what seems to be a veiled threat in a previous post Madame. Very unlady like to say the least."
It's funny...when I made that post, I thought to myself, "Now watch this extremely sensitive individual try and accuse me of threatening him." And damn if you didn't do it.
I have zero respect for whiners.
The Confederacy I venerate.....
Funny. I hardly give it a thought. You Northerners ar the ones obsessed with it.
I’m glad I’m not a Confederate. My ancestors fought them. And the Klan. I’m a Catholic and the Klan had no love for Catholics. Would you die an American? Why the bow to Balkanization?
That is what it’s always been about
Forced acceptance of one view and the disallowance of another
Authoritarian politics
It’s what leftists do on any issue
They cannot afford to brook dissent because they lose on merit every time
When I was in SC recently I ate up the stuff and bought a few books at the Museum and Library of Confederate History in Greenville.
A couple of days later I was at The Citadel in Charleston for the cadet’s Friday parade. When the band struck up the National Anthem I placed my hand over heart and tried to choke back the tears which always seem to come when that melody takes me through the sweep of American history.
“...Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land. God Bless the USA!”
...And the CSA too. God, I love Dixie!
Your question about being an American has already been answered. You seem unable or unwilling to accept it, so that’s your issue.
I’m more interested in the “veiled threat” you say I made to you. Jma, tell me...how do you figure I could personally “threaten’ you with an ulcer or high BP? Please...explain to me in detail how that works, LOL.
Union Springs is decidedly black. Mostly black people, run by blacks, and it seems only blacks get elected.
The only difference between its governance and those of 60 years ago are the colors of the people have switched.
I did some volunteer work for the Chamber of Commerce there a couple of years ago. Bunch of anti-white racists is all I can say.
13% of the population is now telling all of us how its going to be. What’s wrong with that picture?
Apparently, many 'northers' agree, judging by the number of Penske/U-Haul trucks heading down I-81 or I-95 at any given moment. (Note you RARELY see them headed the other direction.) I can't wait to get back to Tennessee after wasting the last eight years of my life in pro-death, pro-sodomite soviet Red Hampshire. It might as well been a prison.
Get your panties out of a wad...Here is what was said,
"I tell you what, for his blood pressure’s sake, jma would do well to stay away from this part of central Virginia."
Hyperbole is unbecoming.
Irony is lost on you, isn’t Reb?
And why did I do that? What did I say the results for you might be? Come on, don't leave that part out.
" To me that was perceived as a threat. "
I've asked you to explain how I could personally effect high blood pressure or ulcers upon your person. Can you explain?
"I would hope, in that, regard, I was mistaken."
LOL
" High blood pressure? All ready have it unfortunately, have for years. Runs in the family. "Hyper tension'' is the fancy word for it."
That's too bad. But I'm waiting for you to tell me how ulcers or high BP could constitute a personal threat from me. How's that work?
Thank you. See, that’s what comes of being hyper-sensitive and over-excitable...
Oh, no. You don't get to turn your false accusation around on people who bust you for it.
I’d rather stand with the “Reb’s” than someone such as yourself based on what I’ve seen of your comments on this thread.
So I’ll accept your attempt at making an disparaging ad hominem comment as a compliment instead.
This must piss you off.
Nah, not at all General. I don’t name roads.
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