House votes to ban Confederate flags at federal cemeteries

Excellent point. I remember how we would snicker at ludicrousness.

“Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.” Ingsoc (Newspeak for English Socialism or the English Socialist Party) is the political ideology of the totalitarian government of Oceania in George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

24 years after the fall of the Soviet Union and WE are erasing our history.

Did you take the blue pill or the red pill?

and congratulating ourselves on being so much better than them.(USSR)

My point also. If it wasn’t their full time occupation, there would less inclination.

Senator Mitch McConnell does not seem to have a problem with the flag in this picture. They are all such hypocrites and traitors!

Aggrieved by the action and tendencies of the Federal Government, and apprehending worse in the future, a majority of the people of the South approved secession as the only remedy suggested by their leaders. So travelers enter railway carriages, and are dragged up grades and through tunnels with utter loss of volition, the motive power, generated by fierce heat, being far in advance and beyond their control. We set up a monarch, too, King Cotton, and hedged him with a divinity surpassing that of earthly potentates. To doubt his royalty and power was a confession of ignorance or cowardice. This potent spirit, at the nod of our Prosperos, the cotton-planters, would arrest every loom and spindle in New England, destroy her wealth,

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Extinction of slavery was expected by all and regretted by none, although loss of slaves destroyed the value of land. Existing since the earliest colonization of the Southern States, the institution was interwoven with the thoughts, habits, and daily lives of both races, and both suffered by the sudden disruption of the accustomed tie. Bank stocks, bonds, all personal property, all accumulated wealth, had disappeared. Thousands of houses, farm-buildings, work-animals, flocks and herds, had been wantonly burned, killed, or carried off. The land was filled with widows and orphans crying for aid, which the universal destitution prevented them from receiving. Humanitarians shuddered with horror and wept with grief for the imaginary woes of Africans; but their hearts were as adamant to people of their own race and blood. These had committed the unpardonable sin, had wickedly rebelled against the Lord’s anointed, the majority. Blockaded during the war, and without journals to guide opinion and correct error, we were unceasingly slandered by our enemies, who held possession of every avenue to the world’s ear.

Famine and pestilence have ever followed war, as if our Mother Earth resented the defilement of her fair bosom by blood, and generated fatal diseases to punish humanity for its crimes. But there fell upon the South a calamity surpassing any recorded in the annals or traditions of man. An article in the “North American Review,” from the pen of Judge Black, well describes this new curse, the carpet-baggers, as worse than Attila, scourge of God. He could only destroy existing fruits, while, by the modern invention of public credit, these caterans stole the labor of unborn generations. Divines, moralists, orators, and poets throughout the North commended their thefts and bade them God-speed in spoiling the Egyptians; and the reign of these harpies is not yet over. Driven from the outworks, they hold the citadel. The epithet of August, first applied to the mighty Julius and to his successor Octavius, was continued, by force of habit, to the slobbering Claudius; and so of the Senate of the United States, which august body contained in March last several of these freebooters.

Honest men regarded them as monsters, generated in the foul ooze of a past era, that had escaped destruction to linger in a wholesomer age; and their speedy extinction was expected, when another, the most hideous of the species, was admitted. This specimen had been kept by force of bayonets for four years upon the necks of an unwilling people, had no title to a seat in the Senate, and was notoriously despised by every inhabitant of the State which he was seated to misrepresent. The Senators composing the majority by which this was done acted under solemn oaths to do the right; but the Jove of party laughs at vows of politicians. Twelve years of triumph have not served to abate the hate of the victors in the great war. The last presidential canvass was but a crusade of vengeance against the South. The favorite candidate of his party for the nomination, though in the prime of vigor, had not been in the field, to which his eloquent appeals sent thousands, but preferred the pleasanter occupation of making money at home. He had converted the power of his great place, that of Speaker of the House of Representatives, into lucre, and was exposed. By mingled chicanery and audacity he obtained possession of his own criminating letters, flourished them in the face of the House, and, in the Cambyses vein, called on his people to rally and save the luster of his loyalty from soil at the hands of rebels; and they came. From all the North ready acclaims went up, and women shed tears of joy, such as in King Arthur’s day rewarded some peerless deed of Galahad. In truth, it was a manly thing to hide dishonorable plunder beneath the prostrate body of the South. The Emperor Commodus, in full panoply, met in the arena disabled and unarmed gladiators. The servile Romans applauded his easy victories. Ancient Pistol covers with patches the ignoble scabs of a corrupt life. The vulgar herd believes them to be wounds received in the Gallic wars, as it once believed in the virtue and patriotism of Marat and Barrère.

In the Sermon on the Mount, the Divine Moralist instructed his hearers to forgive those who had injured them; but He knew too well the malice of the human heart to expect them to forgive those whom they had injured. The leaders of the radical masses of the North have inflicted such countless and cruel wrongs on the Southern people as to forbid any hope of disposition or ability to forgive their victims; and the land will have no rest until the last of these persecutors has passed into oblivion.

During all these years the conduct of the Southern people has been admirable. Submitting to the inevitable, they have shown fortitude and dignity, and rarely has one been found base enough to take wages of shame from the oppressor and maligner of his brethren. Accepting the harshest conditions and faithfully observing them, they have struggled in all honorable ways, and for what? For their slaves? Regret for their loss has neither been felt nor expressed. But they have striven for that which brought our forefathers to Runnymede, the privilege of exercising some influence in their own government. Yet we fought for nothing but slavery, says the world, and the late Vice-President of the Confederacy, Mr. Alexander Stephens, reëchoes the cry, declaring that it was the corner-stone of his Government.

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Now that Federal bayonets have been turned from her bosom, this poison, the influence of three fourths of a million of negro voters, will speedily ascend and sap her vigor and intelligence. Greed of office, curse of democracies, will impel demagogues to grovel deeper and deeper in the mire in pursuit of ignorant votes. Her old breed of statesmen has largely passed away..

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...respect for the memories and deeds of our ancestors is security for the present, seed-corn for the future; and, in the language of Burke, “Those will not look forward to their posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.”

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Traditions are mighty influences in restraining peoples. The light that reaches us from above takes countless ages to traverse the awful chasm separating us from its parent star; yet it comes straight and true to our eyes, because each tender wavelet is linked to the other, receiving and transmitting the luminous ray. Once break the continuity of the stream, and men will deny its heavenly origin, and seek its source in the feeble glimmer of earthly corruption.

THE END

Richard Taylor was born to one of America’s most prominent military families. His grandfather, Richard Lee Taylor, had served in the American Revolution, while his father, Zachary Taylor, rode military fame all the way to the White House in 1840. During Mexican-American War, Taylor was a military secretary for his famous father.

When the Civil War broke out, Taylor began quickly rising through the ranks, leading a regiment at the Battle of First Bull Run. Taylor had all the right connections, but he was a skilled leader, quickly becoming a brigadier general under Stonewall Jackson, serving during the renowned Shenandoah Valley Campaign in 1862.

Taylor, Richard. Destruction and Reconstruction: Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War

No doubt both Republicans and Democrats will point to this as an example of how both sides can reach across the aisle and come together to jointly solve the major issues facing our country today.

Hopefully I didn't need to include a </sarcasm> tag with that.

So,what about confederate cemetarys?Grave headstones that might show the battle flag? What then?

We are becoming like the old Soviet Union that fought to eliminate family, religion, etc., including numerous symbols. Owning a White Army flag was dangerous. People were punished for private conversations.

The fight against a battle flag is directly from the left's playbook. Amazing how quickly Romney, Christie,and others in the GOP decided to join the left's bandwagon.

Governor Nikki Haley became a leading figure in the "blame the battle flag" battle, going to the extreme to ban it. Nikki is among those wanting to destroy our history. What's her next step? To destroy monuments? Turn historic battlefield into housing developments for illegal aliens?

A couple of generations from WW2 and the Cold War the country doesn’t even recognize the slide to Communism. 30 years of educational malpractice and we our now here. Kind of sad.

Are there federal cemeteries that fly the Mexican flag?

It is very sad. This country has a relatively short history. We should take care of what we have. Nikki Haley symbolizes the kind of politician who would trash it all. I cannot speak for her motive - could be contempt for US history and for the Constitution, being blackmailed, or she simply is a closet left winger. Whatever it is, she has done her damage and appears happy about it.

I don’t know but I thought that there was a city or state build in the south that flies the Mexican flag. I could be wrong though.

Heard that a couple of city buildings in CA fly the Mexican flag. San Jose and another. Can’t confirm this.

Might be as simple as wanting to be on the right side of the issue instead of being right about the issue and curry favor with the Main Stream Media.

San Jose.

I found some pictures of the city building with the Mexican flag.

http://www.eventbrite.com/e/ceremony-of-raising-of-the-mexican-flag-tickets-8305476905

I've got a better idea.

How about we just jail or execute people who don't agree with the Leftist party line on all things. It would make things so much easier and ensure justice for all!

Perhaps if somebody repented long and earnestly enough, we could maybe spare him - but not his polluted family...

We could even call it...

After the monuments are destroyed and the dead dug up, next on the agenda: labeling the Southern drawl as “Hate Speech”.