I am here to fight for the South's right to fly the Confederate Flag as part of its heritage. I could care less if it offends you or anyone else. It is a basic freedom that people are guaranteed under the 1st Amendment. I have served on active duty in the Navy for 19 years to defend that Constitution and Bill of Rights that so many want to limit to fit the PC "sensitivity" mold! I fight against tyranny of every form. Where liberty is threatened ... there am I. That is now! Whether you think the South was right or not is immaterial to me, I believe what I believe, and I'll defend everyone's right to be free to fly whatever flag they want!
I cannot speak for Walt but as far as I am concerned you can fly your flag whenever and wherever you want to. I am on record many times as saying that I find this whole jihad against the confederate flag to be way past the point of being ridiculous and if you want to honor your ancestors who fought for the confederacy then more power to you.
Having said that please don't expect me to sit back quietly as the great tide of southern revisionism washes over FreeRepublic until is would appear that Abe Lincoln and the Union government is responsible for every evil and every wrong up to and including a rainy day. Many of the sothron claims are just flat wrong and their view of some great confederate political utopia had they only won are plainly ridiculous. The men who fought for the North were every bit as devoted to their cause as the rebels were to their own and I'll not sit still for their being libled. And I'll continue to point out the errors as I see them regardless of your sensibilities.
I am here to fight for the South's right to fly the Confederate Flag as part of its heritage.I have no trouble with that. Fly any flag you want.
I could care less if it offends you or anyone else.
That seems obvious.
It is a basic freedom that people are guaranteed under the 1st Amendment. I have served on active duty in the Navy for 19 years to defend that Constitution and Bill of Rights that so many want to limit to fit the PC "sensitivity" mold! I fight against tyranny of every form. Where liberty is threatened ... there am I. That is now! Whether you think the South was right or not is immaterial to me, I believe what I believe, and I'll defend everyone's right to be free to fly whatever flag they want!
So will I. Really though, it is easy for me and others to refute the neo-confederate rant on every front by referring to the words of the participants and not some half baked myth or construction of whole cloth.
The CSA was clearly set up to protect property in slaves. It was set up in direct defiance of law and authority, as well as obligations solomnly entered into into. It was set up by immoral men not worthy of any sort of honor. In fact, they rate only contempt from us today.
The real heroes of the American Civil War were the brave men who came forward to preserve the nations's life. That includes, I am delighted to say, 31,000 from Tennessee.
It shouldn't go unnoticed that loyal men were hanged in East Tennessee, Texas and elsewhere --simply-- for professing loyalty to the old flag.
I'm sorry if pointing out the nonsense of CSA honor offends you.
Walt