Posted on 05/29/2002 7:49:11 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
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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