Posted on 07/14/2015 4:19:39 AM PDT by Kaslin
I don’t care about the Confederate flag or the Confederacy. Additionally, I was and continue to be largely indifferent as to whether the Confederate flag flies over government buildings. If I were forced to make a call on it, I’d generally lean toward taking it down just because I do understand how many black Americans could genuinely see the Confederate flag as a symbol of slavery and racism. It isn’t a Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and the #blacklivesmatter idiots that are looking for something they can use to get on TV thing; it’s something real that anybody can empathize with, even if they don’t necessarily agree.
Of course, millions of atheists and liberals who hate Christians have adopted the Rainbow flag as a symbol. Because of that, I find the Rainbow flag to be offensive. That’s not an isolated opinion either. Undoubtedly, if you were to do a poll of the American public, there would be millions of Christians who have a negative reaction when they see a Rainbow flag because they see it as a symbol of hatred against them.
However, an intellectually honest and decent person would have to admit that there are also many people, perhaps even a majority of people who fly the Rainbow flag, who don’t view it that way. They look at the Rainbow flag as an expression of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender pride or as a way to support gay rights.
That being said, any intellectually honest and decent person would also have to admit there are millions of people with a soft spot for the Confederate flag who are serious when they say “Heritage not Hate,” who see it as respect for their non-slave-owning ancestors who fought and died defending their homes or who just appreciate the spirit of rebellion behind it.
So, after nine innocent black Americans were murdered by a loathsome racist who doesn’t even deserve to have his name written in this column, legislators in South Carolina voted to take the flag down. Most of them didn’t vote that way because they think the flag is racist or hateful. They also didn’t do it to get votes because they know that 90% of the black Americans in South Carolina are going to vote for the Democrats next year, no matter what happens. Those Republicans voted to take that flag down out of a spirit of reconciliation and a desire to send a signal to black Americans that they found what the killer did to be repulsive.
That kind gesture they made was repaid with evil.
Instead of saying, “We wish you’d have taken the Confederate flag down a long time ago, but it is nice that you’ve done it now,” a vicious hate campaign has been waged against millions of Southerners.
The Dukes of Hazzard, which was a family-friendly show about some “good ol' boys, never meanin' no harm” has been yanked off the air because the car in the series has a Rebel flag on it. People are demanding that Gone With The Wind no longer be shown. Wal-Mart is refusing to make class rings for high schools that have a Rebel flag as part of their insignia. Apple pulled a Civil War game because it had a Confederate flag in it representing the Confederacy. Confederate flags have been pulled down from Confederate war memorials like Fort Sumter. Liberals are demanding that statues of Confederate soldiers be pulled down. Some dirtbags have even gotten a jump on that by vandalizing those statues. Other liberals have started comparing the Confederacy to the Nazis and are demanding that waving a Confederate flag be classified as a hate crime. In Memphis, city leaders are planning to literally dig up the corpse of a Civil War general and his wife. In Congress, we now even have some Republicans agreeing with Democrats who want to dishonor dead Southern soldiers by refusing to allow outside groups to put Confederate flags on their graves once a year.
So we’ve gone from a nice gesture of reconciliation from Republicans in South Carolina to an all-hate campaign waged against southerners so vicious that Democrats are digging up corpses and smearing millions of people across the South as racists.
Americans found it disgusting when ISIS and the Taliban engaged in these Stalinist purges of history, but now liberals are one-upping them. Maybe ISIS should put in a call to Nancy Pelosi and John Lewis to find out how the professional hatemongers do it.
What the Democrats are doing is designed to distract black Americans from the fact that they are doomed to be afflicted with far more than their share of crime, drugs, poverty and mediocre schools as long as they keep voting for Democrats -- and yes, it’s also EVIL in the true sense of the word.
Smearing millions of innocent people as racist, deliberately trying to stir up hatred over race just like the KKK does and trying to shift the blame for the failures of the Democrat Party over to another group of innocent people is not just morally wrong, it’s vile and un-American. It’s also more than a little similar to what Germans were trying to do to Jews in the early thirties. If it breaks Godwin’s Law to mention that, then so be it, because sometimes when the jackboot fits, Democrats should wear it.
Let me finish this by repeating what I said at the beginning. I don’t care about the Confederate flag or the Confederacy, but I do care about millions of Southerners being smeared, dead American soldiers who died defending their homes being attacked, and the disgusting, un-American attempts to purge history. If you’re okay with trying to smear and humiliate so many good and decent people just because they live in the South, then you can kiss my white southern ass.
WHY THE REGIME PICKED ON THE CONFEDERATE BATTLE FLAG AND NOT ROOF’S MANIFESTO
Because it was under threat of questioning and possible impeachment proceedings by its so called political opposition the regime needed to defer or stop any movement toward this. It was necessary to use a political device usually atrributed to Saul Alinsky but used by the nazi and commie’s like Stalin with the “Kulacks” through racial division.
Through the use of the “Bully Pulpit”. POTUS created persons engaged in felonious assults on authority who were black youths into; “Victims of an evil society” (thus approving their actions) out of whole cloth.
The regime began with the Zimmerman case which resulted in a series of assults by black youths on completely innocent whites,”hispanics”, and asians who were either targeted or wandered near or through black gang infested areas. The perpetators excuse; The reported “cold blood killing of Treyvon Martin because he was black”
It led to a score or more deaths and serious injuries which were treated as local news ignored and forgotten. And it was met with silence while this was happening. Neither the locqatious POTUS or his political opposition uttered as much as a “Now!,Now! or a “tsk!,tsk!”. That also includes an Austialian young champion runner who was murdered while jogging near a black area. There were about a score (20) or more of such incidents.
Those killings were referenced by the Charleston Church massacre perpetrator in his crazed manifesto.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3302529/posts
Naturally when it was discovered that mention of those score of murders were used in this nut cases’s “manifesto” the reaction was....“Well we can’t let that out.
Oh ! His face book has him holding a Confederate battle flag, (Which to many is simply an ensign of protest and rebellion), that must be his excuse “The Confederates made him do this horrible act ! Let’s get them !” Well they’re doing a good job of perverting what that battle flag’s reresents at the same time ignoring the regimes complicity in engendering those previous racial incidents.
In South Carolina case (pix) its use was resurected by by its governor Ernst Hollings who had it raised about the capitol dome as a protest against desegregation. Because of that miss use there is some justification in taking it down.
“Everything the left does turns into a hateful smear campaign. It’s all they’ve got.”
Agreed. But unfortunately it works for them. With special thanks to the MSM.
Myths about the confederate flag..... http://www.rulen.com/myths/
Budapest has a Memento Park which has all of the old Soviet statues.
It is quite popular.
I guarantee the American left wouldn’t even allow something like that.
We are being taken over by lunatics-—and we’ve let it happen.
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I would disagree that it has turned into a hateful smear campaign. It was a hateful smear campaign the git-go!
Or until they are.
“In case anyone needs a reminder, remember how the left has treated:
former President Bush”
I have zero sympathy for George W. Bush. He refused to defend himself and his administration moderate to liberal policies, much less the conservative principles of his supporters. To this day he refuses to criticize Obama. It seems like every time he appears in public he is running around with bill Clinton.
Bush set up Obama. His policies (huge deficits, no child left behind, Patriot Act, establishing Department of Homeland Security, free trade, TARP, lax border enforcement, amnesty) were a disaster for the country.
If Roof had posed with the Rainbow flag, Charleston would have been a footnote.
Obama wants war before the election.
Evidence points to you being correct.
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