Posted on 05/29/2002 7:49:11 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
Eight flag display, including Confederate flag, to fly again
BILOXI (AP) -- The Confederate battle flag will once again be among a display of eight banners flying on a Gulf Coast beach.
Harrison County supervisors voted 4-1 Tuesday to hang the original eight flags, including the much-debated Confederate flag, under the American flags that have been on display since November.
In November, the board voted to fly all American flags to show patriotism after the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Supervisor William Martin cast the only dissenting vote on Tuesday. Supervisor Marlin Ladner made the motion to put the eight flags back up.
The beach display features the eight flags that historically flew over Mississippi's Gulf Coast.
Supervisors took it down two years ago an effort to diffuse tension after a series of thefts and anti- and pro-Confederate flag protests.
Supporters of the Confederate flag say it represents Southern heritage. Critics say it is a symbol of racism and a reminder of slavery.
After an April 2001 statewide referendum in which voters overwhelmingly chose to keep the old Mississippi state flag with its Confederate battle emblem, the Son's of Confederate Veterans pressed Harrison County supervisors for another vote on the display.
Supervisors voted 4-1 along racial lines in June to restore the display with the Confederate flag.
Beach director Bobby Weaver says he's not sure when the original flags will go back up.
It's great to see the state of Mississippi can claim it's proud heritage in the midst of revisionists and the PC crowd. Stand tall Mississippians.
Dubya responded by sending work crews out immediately, in the middle of the night, to remove the two bronze markers.
Do not look for moral courage in the Bush family. I'm surprised he's standing up to the Al-Q'aeda, having kowtowed for the NAACP.
In the great state of Georgia, hopefully King Roy will learn how many are mad over the flag issue here. I have spoken to one vendor, that has sold the grand total of one - count 'em - one new flag. I've seen that flag in front of two homes. I'm underwhelmed.
Is this anything to be proud of?
"Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world."(From the Mississippi Declaration of Secession.)
People in Georgia could make a much better impression on everyone if they pulled down "King Roy" over the flag issue, and then heaped the Republican refuse on his political bier that voted with the Downtown Boys, the Republicrat business royalists who preemptively rolled over for Queasy My Funny rather than allow the people of Georgia to stand on a principle, and take a fearsome boycott by the NAACP.
They could especially impress me by knocking down Tom Murphy, the Speaker of the Georgia House for over 20 years and as callous an inside political operator as has ever fumigated a state legislature with his stink.
Better still, how about "The Bonnie Blue Flag" done by the choir, backed up by the massed choirs of The Citadel and the Virginia Military Institute?
Don't start celebrating until the flags go back up. These people are still politicians. They can change their minds.
PS. The link provided by stainlessbanner (#16) does have a version by the MTC.
Well, we'll see. The United States is itself an experiment in participatory government, in which the usual excesses and powergrabbing of the governing is hopefully limited by the constititution from which their powers derive, as a contract with the governed not to exceed those specified limits. In recent years, the government seems to be paying less and less attention to that docunment, and with every such step, they dilute their own legitimacy and any real moral authority they might otherwise claim.
But you would likely do well to remember that the Thirteenth Amendment did NOT abolish slavery or involuntary servitude- but made such conditions a governmentally-directed monopoly. And I believe that there are now more such slaves under government control than ever were in the South or elsewhere during the Nineteenth Century.
And, of course, if you are a taxpayer, you are yourself a financial supporter of such slavery and involuntary servitude under the present system. Permaps someday you too will be decreed a racist who has profiteered from those conditions, and your descendents will have to pay mandatory reparations for your shameful conduct.
But at present, it does not appear that the American experiment in a Republican participatory government will long survive the crumbling of its foundation wrought by the XIII Amendment and the further dilution of its meaning wrought by further legislation since then.
Maybe that will bring a return of such things in the New South, maybe not. Maybe they will go back to their eirlier constitutional arrangement, perhaps not. We shall see.
-archy-/-
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