Missouri Officials Take Down Confederate Flags After Gephardt Complaint

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[hardhead]

Gephardt Blasts Missouri Confederate Flag

Tuesday, January 14, 2003

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri Democrat Dick Gephardt, who declared after a visit to South Carolina that the Confederate flag shouldn't fly "anytime, anywhere," wants the flag pulled from a publicly funded Confederate memorial in his home state, his spokesman said.

"He did not know this existed, and he believes that flag should come down also," Gephardt spokesman Erik Smith said Tuesday.

[hardhead]

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Perhaps Mr. Gephardt would be so honest as to apologize for Democrats putting the flag up in the first place, starting the KKK, attacking Republicans who came south to help freed and escaped slaves in the 1800s, the poll tax, segregation, Jim Crow and continuing to divide us by color instead of the content of our characters. We're waiting, Mr. Gephardt, AP?

[billbears]

Perhaps Mr. Gephardt would be so honest as to apologize for Democrats putting the flag up in the first place, starting the KKK, attacking Republicans who came south to help freed and escaped slaves in the 1800s, the poll tax, segregation, Jim Crow and continuing to divide us by color instead of the content of our characters. We're waiting, Mr. Gephardt, AP?

Perhaps Mr. Gephardt need not apologize. The Republicans of 1860 (big government, taxes, national bank, internal improvements) were the Democrats of today.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

The Republicans of 1857 formed to prevent slavery from moving westward with national expansion, went south to help the slaves, were lynched by Democrats, etc. On the issue of civil rights, the Republicans can stand tall.

[aomagrat]

Gephardt knows what he is doing. He needs the black vote to win the southern primaries. He doesn't need the southern vote to win the presidential election. Gore almost pulled it off. Gephardt believes he will be more successfull.

[stand watie]

what a bunch of IDIOTS!

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The Republicans of 1857 formed to prevent slavery from moving westward with national expansion, went south to help the slaves, were lynched by Democrats, etc. On the issue of civil rights, the Republicans can stand tall."

The Republicans of 1857 ushered in the era of big government, taxes, and by their war of aggression emancipated slaves and enslaved free men. They had no legitimate right to poke their noses into a State's own internal affairs. This is according to the Founding Fathers who set up this nation to be one of Man-over-Government. So if the people are the ultimate authority, and the Constitution just a compact of States ... what gave them the right to interfere in the self-determination of any State? In short, the answer is nothing.