[P-Marlowe]

I don’t cotton to people who want to ban symbols and flags or FReepers who jump on the politically correct bandwagon.

[jmacusa]

Political correctness is cultural Marxism and I'm no Marxist. The Confederacy and it's flag are a Democrat creation. Are you a Democrat?

[BroJoeK]

Here's my problem with this whole conversation over the Confederate Battle Flag, which I consider ridiculous -- the debate, not the flag!

Take a careful look at these photos below, what does every one have in common?

Powerful helicopters:

Long range cruise missile:

Bad-*ssed (for their time) tanks:

And even this tank?

US Ticonderoga class guided missile cruiser:

Answers:

1. The helicopters all have Indian names -- Apache, Black Hawk, Chinook, Tomahawk.
   In particular, Black Hawk was an Illinois area chief who conducted a long war against American troops, including briefly, a young Captain Abraham Lincoln.

2. Those bad-*ssed tanks (for their time) were named after Confederate Generals Lee and Stuart.

3. Everyone knows the M-1 Abrams tank is named after WWII US tanker, later General Creighton Abrams.
   But how many know who makes the big guns for that tank?
   That's right, the same company that made many of Col. Abrams' enemy Panther & Tiger tanks -- Rheinmetall of Düsseldorf, Germany.

4. Finally, a US Ticonderoga class guided missile cruiser (CG-62) named what?
   Right, USS Chancellorville, after RE Lee's greatest victory over Union forces.
   In this photo it fires a Tomahawk missile, and on board are two of the Navy's version of Black Hawk helicopters.

Does anyone get the picture?
We respect and honor our old enemies, especially those who showed the greatest qualities of courage, devotion and resourcefulness.
And that is the true symbolic meaning of the Confederate Battle Flag, the rest of it is just blathering nonsense.

Come on, people, who seriously has a problem with this?