Posted on 07/08/2015 6:38:19 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
After just two minutes of floor debate late Tuesday evening, the House passed a measure to prohibit the display of Confederate flags on graves in federal cemeteries.
Despite the lack of fanfare, the vote marked the House's first entry into the debate over removing the Confederate flag from federal property that went beyond codifying already established policies.
Rep. Jared Huffman's (D-Calif.) amendment to the 2016 Interior Department spending bill seeks to end a policy that allows a temporary display of the flag in cemeteries under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service. It sailed through on a voice vote after minimal discussion on the House floor that encountered no opposition.
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I know. This is looking more and more like the mass hysteria you see in communist regimes. It invariably results in the implementation of draconian state policy, along with the increase and consolidation of the central state power, whose heavy-handedness becomes more pronounced and arbitrary with each manufactured "crisis".
A friend or relative can put anything they damn well please at a loved one's gravesite, including a Confederate Battle flag.
I predict there will be a backlash against this mass hysteria. Most citizens will see this un-American trend for exactly what it is, amd ultimately reject it, with prejudice.
As they severely overplay their hand here, the PC crowd, race-baiters and their ilk in government are beginning to look absolutely ludicrous in the eyes of the People. That never bodes well for the demagogues...
I hope you are right.
Yes, now they snicker at us.
For someone that wasn’t born in the United States he is trying to change our history and turn the U.S. Into a third world country. All of you need to wake up and look at this man for what he is; a foreign exchange student who occupies the presidency illegally.
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