Posted on 05/24/2007 6:03:30 AM PDT by Rebeleye
...he was stunned to see two large Confederate flags flying from trucks...emblazoned with the words "The South Shall Rise Again." I'm stunned, too, that people still think it is cool to fly this flag. Our society should bury these flags -- not flaunt them...because the Confederate flag symbolizes racial tyranny to so many... ...This flag doesn't belong on city streets, in videos or in the middle of civil discussion. It belongs in our past -- in museums and in history books -- along with the ideas it represents.
(Excerpt) Read more at kansas.com ...
Nope. You're projecting how you feel about Northern battle conduct onto lyrics that have nothing to do with specific tactics.
What do you think “trample out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored”?
Read Lincoln's Second Inaugural and ask yourself that question again.
It always breaks my heart to see the flag at KKK rallies though. Those idiots perpetuate myths and misunderstanding by hiding behind it.
My tag line ain't about North or South. Its about Gen. Sherman.
Your picture is one of the reasons this country has been so successful.
It was only a very few years after the war that folks were getting together on battlefields for reenactments and picnics. Men in Blue and Gray would willingly sit down at the dinner table and break bread together.
In other nations, you see deep animosities that periodically result in pogroms, and general death and mayhem.
Sure, we still have regional rivalries, but that’s fairly natural, and pre-existed the War Between the States anyway.
Marse Robert’s actions in April, 1865 (I highly recommend the book ‘April 1865’) went a long way to making this happen.
THIS is what so many people don't get.
While the Founders believed "All men were created equal", it didn't mean society or government was obligated to keep them that way. There actually was (and still is) a legalistic tier of different types of ~persons~
While slaves were property, what we call 'illegals' today were referred to as 'denizens', and denizens did NOT have the same legal standing as a citizen of one of the several States. Denizens had natural rights, but not civil ones.
Thats why today's illegals have more rights than the people that were born here....they are still 'natural persons' in law, with all of their freedoms still attached, while a "citizen of the United States" is an artificial person with only privileges granted by government.
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"A citizen of the United States is a citizen of the federal government ..."
(Kitchens v. Steele 112 F.Supp 383).
Great pic.
If it does offend you, you need a history lesson!
You are absolutely correct. History is always distorted in favor of the winners. The descendants of the winners are now being beaten down by the globalist forces, in part because they have bought into the racial history teachings and are ignoring states' rights, self-determination, honor, courage and bold defiance against authoritarian government.
Not specific tactics, just a desire to punish Southern Americans.
“Read Lincoln’s Second Inaugural and ask yourself that question again.”
The Battle Hymn of the Republic was written by Julia Howe, not Lincoln.
There you go; lose the argument - change the terms. The original comment had to do with the claim that the South was fighting to preserve "government for the people, by the people and of the people”.
Not only is the phrase strangely borrowed from Lincoln, but it's use to justify a democracy built on enslaving 1/3 of the population, and dedicated to preserving the States' "right" to do so, is somewhat discordant.
“To this Yankee, it means that Democrat redneck white trash want to go back to the good old days of segregation, lynching, and enslavement of black people.”
In your case, thats not a bad idea.
And I, as a southerner, don’t give a rat’s behind WHAT a yankee thinks about anything, particularly anything in the south. Outside agitaters have no clout here.
Some of the most enjoyable hours of my youth!
That referred to a general view of their opinion from their press. Unless, of course, you think there was actually a man named “British” to be quoted. I would presume that from your asinine argument.
“I know your a newbie here, but that’s no excuse to make up BS to get your point across.
And making up more BS when you are called for your original BS doesn’t make you look any better.”
Being too dense to see the point isn’t making you look very good, son. Calling the ancestors of a bastion of conservatism in the United States “enemies of America” isn’t either.
Everyone interested in the Civil war should also check out the section on Southern Big Government in LS's "A Patriot's History of the United States." A real eye-opener...the Confederate government was pretty much running the entire economy down to the smallest detail.
“And I, as a southerner, don’t give a rat’s behind WHAT a yankee thinks about anything, particularly anything in the south. Outside agitaters have no clout here.”
The problem is, they all want to move down here and ruin it.
In all fairness the average Southern supporter is no more responsible for the misuse of the confederate flag by hate groups as the average Christian is for the misuse of the cross by those same people.
You can lead a yankee to the truth, but that doesn’t overcome years of public schooling and indoctrination of the terminally brain dead.
WEll, you need to find something to do besides making trouble where none exists in places you do not belong. Ain’t too much to do in Kansas, is there.
“A real eye-opener...the Confederate government was pretty much running the entire economy down to the smallest detail.”
True, but the North was run the same way during the war.
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