Four more students suspended for wearing Confederate flags

al.com ^ | 10/18/01 | ap

[WRhine]

I wonder how many kids would be suspended if they wore T-shirts with a big Hammer & Sickle on it.

[stainlessbanner]

That pales in comparison to other shirts I have seen on school campuses - sexual references, drugs, atheist, violence, etc. Yet the principle is gonna ban a worldwide Christian symbol! [><]

[KentuckyWoman]

This action to devide the Union of States was a violation of the US constition

I can't seem to find that in my copy of the U. S. Constitution. As a matter of fact, this Country's founders even made reference to the population overthrowing an oppressive government. Under the Articles of Confederation AND the U. S. Constitution is WAS understood that the individual states had made a VOLUNTARY pact from which they could withdraw if it was in their best interest. Go back and read the Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers for further explanations regarding the LIMITED powers of the FEDERAL government and then realize that the powers NOT enumerated were left to the individual STATES.

[Non-Sequitur]

I can't seem to find the items you claim are there in my copy of the Constitution, either. Are you sure you have the right one?

[LadyJD]

This is too deep for "those people" but some among us still "get it":

Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

[LadyJD]

You are so CUTE!

I'll bet you have a chihuahua!

''The veteran Confederate soldier was a typical gentleman. He was gentle as a lamb, brave as a lion and as ferocious as a tiger when aroused. He was as proud as Lucifer, as retiring as a woman and withal a hero on the field of battle. He knelt to no God but high heaven. He asked no friend but his sword.''—Col. John P. Hickman, CSA

[Arkinsaw]

The offense is all in your mind. If you are offended by my Confederate flag, well, thats some sort of problem you have if your are offended where no offensie is intended.

A lot of people would be offended by you reading FreeRepublic or are offended by the fact that FreeRepublic exists. Care to assuage their misconceptions by pulling the plug on it? I thought not. You'll just keep on offending them, right? Well, I guess I'll just keep offending you also with my flag.

No offense intended.

"The lowest form of debate is the comparison of your opponent to Nazis"

[Illbay]

You're not even an American.

I find this "cognitive dissonance" of your fascinating. First, you rail against those who defeated the slaveholders of the South in their attempt to rebel against the United States.

Then you quip that those who disparage that rebellion aren't "Americans."

You claim you're a "Confederate," loudly and often, and you even have the audacity to bring this up again during this time when--one would think--we could put aside such petty hobbies in favor of national unity.

I on the other hand claim to be an AMERICAN, and it is the flag of the United States--the flag against which your heroes rebelled, the flag they cast down--that I fly proudly.

That racist banner which you love is the antithesis of the America that I love.

Go somewhere else with your neo-Confederate cant, and understand you can't have it both ways. Either you love this country, or you love that country that never existed. Choose.

[Illbay]

Why do you people want to strip them of their history?

Oh, I don't. I simply prefer that people understand the history, instead of the romantic myth that arose to take its place.

I doubt you'll find too many Germans today who will tell you, even candidly, that they resent being "stripped of their history" with respect for the Third Reich. So that argument is hollow.

[Illbay]

LONG LIVE THE CONFEDERACY!

The Confederacy is dead. Long live the United States of America.

[Non-Sequitur]

You are being treated to some of that great southern Whine, vintage 1865. I always thought that it tasted of sour grapes but they seem to like it.

[Illbay]

The south was the first to have true modern multicultural cities.

Funny. I would be willing to wager good money that we could find examples of you RAILING against "multiculturalism" elsewhere. But you'll don that mantle when it suits you.

Go back and read the earlier thread, the links to which I provided. I put LOTS of stuff in there about the "noble, multicultural' South of the slaveholders.

You may have your romantic myth of a place that never was, but pardon the rest of us while we deal with reality.

[Twodees]

Admit it, boy. You're a raghead moslem terrorist who's been pretending to be a Freeper since 1998. That's why nobody has ever seen you at a Freep. That's why you consistently try to alienate the US military's main source of warriors.

You've never had me fooled for a minute, even when you tried to pretend to be a conservative. You are nothing, have done nothing and you have nothing. Nobody listens to penniless losers like you. Begone.

[Cvengr]

My first thoughts as well, same if they had worn a rainbow shirt and an ear-ring to celebrate homosexuality or an African Flag/Apparal to manifest their heritage of portions of a novel culture. If somebody sporting those colors is suspended, it would be a court case.

[Illbay]

Admit it, boy.

The only thing that I'll admit is that when you lose an argument you lapse into frantic gibberish.

[TomServo]

Thanks for the ping, Shuck!!

[stainlessbanner]

...we could put aside such petty hobbies in favor of national unity.

Ahhh! Closet socialist, huh? You will find none more patriotic than a Southron, but we stand up for our right to self-government and self-preservation, not socialism!

PS: My heritage ain't a hobby; it ain't for sale either. Is yours?

[Illbay]

You will find none more patriotic than a Southron...

That's likely true, but it isn't true of those who style themselves "neo-Confederates." Their patent hatred of this country is legendary.

[Soul Citizen]

According to the accounts of the battle of New Orleans, there were free blacks who owned slaves.

I'm not in any way debating whether or not slavery existed or that is was a terrible portion of this countries past, which I believe it was!

Trading in human flesh is terrible! In fact, it still exists today.

There are ships loaded with immigrants (illegal) that are indentured for survitude in return for transport.

Some arab traders in Africa engauge in slave trade.

This is not just an issue of yesturday.

[BnBlFlag]

Pay no attention to illBAY. He is a scalawag from Alabama now living in Katy, Tx. He hates his heritage with a passion and is lower than whalesh@t (Which is at the bottom of the ocean.