General, word has it that Laz would hit it.
Posted on 06/27/2015 3:19:03 PM PDT by Lazamataz
As a 'damn Yankee' -- that is, a Northerner who came to the South and didn't leave -- the Confederate Flag has never really held meaning for me. I understood that for most who displayed it, it meant a reverence for the heritage of the South and expressed the rebellious spirit I so often find, and admire, here.
Then the events of the shooting in South Carolina played out. Dylann Root was found to have embraced that flag, but for different and objectionable reasons of true racism.
The hysteria that followed was terrifying to watch. Both Democrats and Republicans, media and corporations, all jumped aboard a fevered bandwagon that cast aside rationality for a false emotional response. Apple corporation, for example, banned all Civil War games in their app store. Utterly absurd.
The media breathlessly reported every banning, discontinuation, removal from state grounds, and whipped the masses up as well as they could.
The masses were unresponsive. I saw no turning of opinion, and there was no grassroots groundswell for this Southern cultural cleansing, this was a manufactured hysteria and the classic definition of overreaction, but it was at the organizational level. That, my friends, is censorship.
So the Confederate Flag now has a new meaning for this New York-born Southerner:
When you are attending the two minute hate session, that is the time to laugh as loud as you can.
Even though I have my Confederate Great Grandfather's picture above my desk, I am in favor of removing the flag from public display. I only ask that it is kept flying in perpetuity over our Confederate Cemeteries.
BTTT
We love you and we’re proud to have you here.
Some brave warrior queen climbed up the flagpole in front of the SC statehouse and took the flag down.
Wasn’t that absolutely fearless? If the flag offended her so much, why didn’t she do it a month ago, before she had the backing of the mob and the media?
Yeah, these cries of “We are all southerners now” that have been coming from all over the country really warmed my heart.
Oh, wait...
I don’t have a problem with that flag. It’s history.
For me it reminds me that there can be good reasons to leave a country, and bad reasons to leave a country.
The real flags I would use for my own feelings about good reasons to leave are our 13 colonies circle flag, the navy union jack, and the gadsden flag. I also personally fly the us civilian flag.
The other day I was lucky enough for someone to give me a gift of a Confederate flag.
This morning I got out my welding tools and made a 20’ flag pole and ran the “stars and bars” up over my home.
I then wrote on my facebook page the following:
“Today I got my old welding tools and made a new flagpole that has a new flag that represents true Americans who have been let down by the old American flag and what it meant before the Socialist took over this week.
We are on our own folks, we have no one in our House, Senate or Supreme Court to protect our rights under the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights is now “The Bill of Special Rights” as set by the Supreme Court of the United States effective this week.
We have now gone back to the days of Stalin era and the destruction of everything and all things that were the history of his country (including the Civil War) and replaced by the “New Order.”
Read history and you will see.........Oh! I forgot unbiased actual history disappeared from our indoctrination centers (schools) back in the late 60’s
It is a sad, sad day in America and our only hope is to vote for someone who has not been part of the “good old boy” club in Washington. I don’t like Trump at all but all we have in the government is Ted Cruz who will represent us and he is helpless against the establishment Republicans and is powerless to do anything to advance and recover our freedoms. Donald Trump owes no allegiance to any political party, private individual, business or banking blood suckers and will be our only hope to do actual battle with those in Congress and the stacked Court, impervious to their blackmail or political pressure.
It’s a sad day in America and the children of our generation will pay a dear price for the votes they cast today.”
I will fly that flag OVER the American flag until the day I die...which may not be long if Obama’s storm troopers get to me.
DH
Thanks Laz. I agree. Yankee born, but now I will stand with my southern rebel brothers and sisters to reclaim the right to display their heritage. Yes, and my ancestors wore the blue coats, but this oppression has got to stop.
We have some newly minted by-God Southerners over here.
God bless ‘em.
It has always meant the wrath of God to me but it also starting to also look more like secession.
General, word has it that Laz would hit it.
Well said, Laz!
As I once read somewhere on this forum, the purpose of the First Amendment is for the express purpose that we may say things that are not liked, in fact are very much disliked, by others.
And to elaborate on that: it matters not whether we offend one person or thousands or even millions.
For if we only spoke that which is popular, acceptable and agreeable with all, there would be no need for the First Amendment to begin with.
So it is obvious that the First Amendment was and is intended to allow us to speak of or to display the very sort of thing which we now condemn and wish to hide.
This will destroy the very heart of our country.
• Finally, it means I shall never surrender.
Yep. Oh, and happy Three Day Weekend!
If the battle flag of the Confederate States of America of 150 years ago is "divisive" today, than what does the _resident of the United States today (and his relentless sycophantic lavender brown shirts and other fascist admirers) think the "rainbow flag" of the Queer Nation plastered in glorious colors all over the White House is? Inclusive and uniting?
NO. The little Kenyan bastard knows precisely what he is doing - he is trying to divide the people of the United States into warring factions and destroy this country and our Constitution. So far, he is succeeding brilliantly!
Well said! May I use this as my own statement on this issue?
Nailed it.
:)
Please do!
I stand with Laz!
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