Wow. I grew up there and I never even knew there WAS a Confederate flag on the county seal.
I'm ashamed at my home folks being spineless about this. This is very sad...as much the fact that they removed it without telling anyone as anything else. If they wanted to remove it, they needed to have a public debate about it instead of sneaking around like this.
This county, by the way, is about 20 miles northwest of Appomattox, where General Lee surrendered. A lot of Amherst men fought and died in the Army of Northern Virginia (I believe they furnished a battery that served under Pickett at Gettysburg).
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This has now become SOP at all levels of government. Selective non-enforcement of laws, selective enforcement of laws against certain individuals or classes of individuals, sneaking legislation through in the middle of night or by pre-arranged voice vote, cozying up to the lobbyists, and on and on. Distrust of government is reaching crisis levels.
They're all playing a dangerous game.