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Re-enactors asked not to display Confederate flag in Lewisburg parade [PA]
PennLive.com ^ | June 26, 2015 | John Beauge

Posted on 06/27/2015 3:28:00 PM PDT by Timber Rattler

The controversy over the display of the Confederate flag in the wake of the killing of nine black church members in Charleston, S.C., has reached the annual Union County Veterans Fourth of July Parade in Lewisburg.

The 18th North Carolina Co. A re-enactors have been asked not to display the Confederate flag if it marches, parade chairman Kevin Bittenbender said Friday. The parade is scheduled to step off at 10 a.m. Saturday.

The decision was made following a discussion by the parade committee's executive board, he said. He understands there will be some opposed to the decision, he said.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: battleflag; bucknell; confederate; confederateflag; flag
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To: Salamander

The sooner we start defying these pieces of human garbage, the sooner we get back to reality.

Actually the homos arent the actual problem. Their very white and very liberal straight supporters are. The 2% arent squat. The 30% are.


21 posted on 06/27/2015 3:39:03 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Timber Rattler

Spawn of Yankees weighing in here - ancestors on both parents’ sides were Irish bogtrotters who fought for the Union. Having said that...HOW RIDICULOUS CAN THIS GET???? Let the re-enactors display the flag that they actually would have carried. Unless this is from The Onion, I have no hope for this planet any more.

Confederate soldiers actually existed. The Confederate battle flag was actually carried into battle. We even have photographic evidence attesting to such. WHAT are these pantloads smoking?


22 posted on 06/27/2015 3:39:19 PM PDT by mrs. a (It's a short life but a merry one...)
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To: Timber Rattler

We are now seeing the unintended consequences of the Confederate-flag-banning do-gooders. Wait, what was the “problem” they were attempting to solve?


23 posted on 06/27/2015 3:42:06 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: windsorknot

Nothing unintended about it.

Cloward Piven.


24 posted on 06/27/2015 3:42:43 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: mrs. a

This isn’t about north vs south. This is about the destruction of all of America.


25 posted on 06/27/2015 3:42:49 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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To: Jagdgewehr
It's just another way of saying, "We surrender."

If a people become too civilized to do what's necessary to survive in an uncivilized world, they won't survive, and they don't deserve to survive.

26 posted on 06/27/2015 3:52:29 PM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: Timber Rattler

No sign the collective hysteria is dying out.


27 posted on 06/27/2015 3:55:47 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: Timber Rattler

You Knew It Was Only A Matter Of Time For This Insanity To Hit The Civil War Reenactor Crowd This Whole Thing Is Starting To Piss Me Off Grrrrrrr


28 posted on 06/27/2015 4:04:31 PM PDT by The FIGHTIN Illini (Wake up fellow Patriots before it's too late)
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To: Timber Rattler

How bout firing up the time machine and not fighting a Civil War at all. That would make them happier eh!


29 posted on 06/27/2015 4:04:49 PM PDT by mcshot (I pray someone comes forth with the strength, fortitude and burning desire to save our Republic)
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To: Timber Rattler; Cboldt

Sooo, the Confederate Army was just a figment of their imaginations & a mass hallucination? LOL Only the left could come up with this. For them, this is “normal”.

Cboldt- I like this.


30 posted on 06/27/2015 4:09:42 PM PDT by KGeorge (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground)
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To: Timber Rattler

Fairy tales and make believe.


31 posted on 06/27/2015 4:10:16 PM PDT by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Timber Rattler

Well then they should just encamp nearby and plant the flag at the camp site.


32 posted on 06/27/2015 4:11:46 PM PDT by two23 (Ignore the media. It isn't propaganda if we don't listen.)
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To: lee martell
The battle flag that is currently the subject of this brouhaha is the third battle flag. The first one had two horizontal red stripes on either side of a single white stripe, with a blue field in the upper corner, with seven stars arranged in a ring. Unfortunately, it bore a strong resemblance to the Union flag, leading to confusion on the battlefield. The second flag was similar to the first, except that they had removed the red stripes. When there was no wind, it looked like a flag of surrender. The third battle flag was designed to avoid further confusion.
For more information, look here
33 posted on 06/27/2015 4:20:24 PM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: jmcenanly

Those were the Confederate National Flags for the Confederate States of America as a nation. They were called in order, The Stars and Bars, The Stainless Banner, and the Third National.

The Battle Flags were a different story.


34 posted on 06/27/2015 4:29:16 PM PDT by PLMerite ("The issue is never the issue. The issue is the Revolution.")
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To: Timber Rattler

this is getting ridiculous


35 posted on 06/27/2015 4:29:45 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Timber Rattler

Then how about shirts versus skins? Homosexual judges and their followers will probably go after the color gray next.


36 posted on 06/27/2015 4:31:22 PM PDT by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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To: Timber Rattler

No parade at all. No reenactments either. Bah humbug.


37 posted on 06/27/2015 4:36:46 PM PDT by petitfour
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To: Timber Rattler

I have to get a razor to cut out all the Rebel flags from my civil war books. The scariest part of all this is idiots, mostly white, are falling all over each other to out do themselves with this Idiocy. It’s like Chairman Mao in his cultural revolution.


38 posted on 06/27/2015 4:39:23 PM PDT by ZULU (Roberts, Kennedy, Boehner and McConnell are Obama's Strumpets.)
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To: petitfour

The reenactment that’s coming will not have rules.


39 posted on 06/27/2015 4:41:13 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Reeducation camps are not very far away, especially after the economic collapse Obola is engineering.

Reeducation camps are for those who choose to go. For those who don't, they get to choose between the firing squad, the guillotine, or the gas chamber.

40 posted on 06/27/2015 4:45:02 PM PDT by Mark17 (Lonely people live in every city, men who face a dark and lonely grave. Lonely voices do I hear)
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