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Robert E. Lee Boy Scout Council, Richmond, VA, to be Renamed.
More PC for the Boy Scouts...
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| 5/13/03
| VMI70
Posted on 05/13/2003 6:17:13 AM PDT by VMI70
This past weekend, my son and I went on his troop's annual father-son hike. His troop is one of many in the Robert E. Lee Council of the Boy Scouts of America, which is headquartered in Richmond, VA.
On Sunday, during the church service at the end of the hike, it was announced that the Council directors had voted to change its name from The Robert E. Lee Council, which has been in use for many decades, to something else.
This morning, the news broke on the local radio station: WRVA 1140 AM, Richmond's Morning News with Jimmy Barrett.
TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: boyscouts; bsa; bsalist; cubscouts; dixie; dixielist; explorer; national; pc; politicallycorrect; richmond; roberteleecouncil; scouts
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To: Corin Stormhands
The Democratic Party did not cease to exist after the Civil War and it did not begin yesterday. The treasonous tendencies within the Democratic Party go back to the Civil War and beyond.
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posted on
05/13/2003 2:48:58 PM PDT
by
Grand Old Partisan
(You can read about my history of the GOP at www.republicanbasics.com)
To: CyberSpartacus
The Democrats have always taken that to heart. Remember, the Confederates were Democrats.
282
posted on
05/13/2003 2:52:09 PM PDT
by
Grand Old Partisan
(You can read about my history of the GOP at www.republicanbasics.com)
To: yonif
The Emancipation Proclamation was based on the Confiscation Act of 1862, which stated that slaves held by rebels "shall be forever free." Therefore, it could not apply to slaves in loyal states.
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posted on
05/13/2003 2:55:11 PM PDT
by
Grand Old Partisan
(You can read about my history of the GOP at www.republicanbasics.com)
To: VMI70
Just checked the poll:
http://1140wrva.com/morningshow.html Question of the Day:
How do you feel about Robert E. Lee being dropped by the boy scouts?
It's OK by me. 4.90 %
It's just another politically correct mistake. 95.10 %
It's too bad they don't show the number of votes.
284
posted on
05/13/2003 4:32:33 PM PDT
by
VMI70
(...but two Wrights made an airplane)
To: Grand Old Partisan
Why don't you and your neighbors get together and vote that it is agreed that the federal government is to turn over some nearby instalation to you?The citizens of Montana have agreed not to let them buy any more of their state.
285
posted on
05/13/2003 4:41:23 PM PDT
by
putupon
(he who writes on $#!+house walls, will roll...;-)
To: george wythe; WhiskeyPapa
You seemed to be well informed about Southern history. Are you a professor at a Southern college for any chance?
Professor Papa is the most published historical revisionist at FRU.
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posted on
05/13/2003 4:51:39 PM PDT
by
putupon
(he who writes on $#!+house walls, will roll...;-)
To: John O
"These United States have never been ..."Nice to see the correct form of the verb being used.
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To: putupon
Not very relevant, but interesting nonetheless. Thanks!
289
posted on
05/13/2003 6:23:31 PM PDT
by
Grand Old Partisan
(You can read about my history of the GOP at www.republicanbasics.com)
To: ConstitutionalConservative
So, in areas where Lincoln could have freed slaves, he didnt. In areas where he had no control, he ordered slaves to be freed. If President Lincoln had the power to free the slaves up North all on his own then why bother with the 13th Amendment?
To: Non-Sequitur; ConstitutionalConservative; billbears
N-S, the reason Lincoln did not free slaves in northern states is that the Emancipation Proclamation was based on the Confiscation Act of 1862, which stated that slaves held by rebels "shall be forever free." Therefore, it could not apply to slaves in loyal states.
291
posted on
05/13/2003 6:29:52 PM PDT
by
Grand Old Partisan
(You can read about my history of the GOP at www.republicanbasics.com)
To: VMI70
Let's go with Robert C (Sheets) Byrd. The Dems would be happy with that.
To: VMI70
This whole anti-confederate jihad has gotten way past the point of being ridiculous. The Civil War happened, slavery was a fact, trying to erase it all from public view isn't going to change it.
To: Grand Old Partisan
yea,yea,yea.
Fitz Lee also "violated" his commission and
joined the CS Army. Also,about 35 years later he was wearing a blue uniform as MAJ.GEN,U.S. VOLS. in Spanish-
American War.
294
posted on
05/13/2003 7:20:12 PM PDT
by
hillyes
To: hillyes
And Robert Lee got off scot-free. What's your point?
295
posted on
05/13/2003 7:22:51 PM PDT
by
Grand Old Partisan
(You can read about my history of the GOP at www.republicanbasics.com)
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To: hillyes
Like Whisky Papa, ignore this one also. He's just a party hack.
297
posted on
05/13/2003 7:31:27 PM PDT
by
VMI70
(...but two Wrights made an airplane)
To: Strategery
The Boy Scouts did not draft you. It's an all volunteer organization.
298
posted on
05/13/2003 7:55:30 PM PDT
by
VMI70
(...but two Wrights made an airplane)
To: WhiskeyPapa; John O; VMI70
Why should the remaining states take on the debt incurred in the name of all?Of course, nobody will ask the obvious question: Walt, what in the Sam Hell was the Union doing with a debt in the first place?
Did Lincoln send a delegate to the CSA to negotiate the debt? Did he meet with CSA delegates to dicsuss proper handling of federal lands within the borders of the CSA?
No, he raised an army and invaded.
Post all the lofty rhetoric about preserving the union that you'd like, even Lincoln knew it to be impossible. Coersion of the states was no less destructive to the idea of Union than was secession. Only the cohesion provided of a common enemy would heal the division set on by either coersion or secession, and thanks to Lincoln we had both.
VMI, as for Baghdad Bob/Whiskeypapa hijacking another thread, apologies.
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posted on
05/13/2003 8:03:09 PM PDT
by
Gianni
(Peace, Love, and Biscuits and Gravy)
To: Huck
predicated on the perpetutation of slavery.Slavery, like it or not, was constitutional and had been protected by the courts as such for nearly 100 years. Had slavery been an issue, the southern states would have had recourse through the existing justice system.
The power of taxation, which Lincoln had made clear would be used to subjugate southern agrarian interests to those of northern manufacturing, was a constitutionally delegated power of the national government.
Avoiding abuse of that power required secession.
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posted on
05/13/2003 8:08:12 PM PDT
by
Gianni
(Peace, Love, and Biscuits and Gravy)
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