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The Civil War Is Over: Let The Battle Flag Be
The American Thinker ^ | 11/24/2011 | Steven Simpson

Posted on 11/24/2011 7:25:50 AM PST by octavius21

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Interesting article on the hypocrisy of the leftists and reverse racists who want to tear down everything that is Southern with tearing down everything American as their ultimate goal. Indeed, leave the Battle Flag alone.
1 posted on 11/24/2011 7:25:54 AM PST by octavius21
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This yankee has never had any issues with it.


2 posted on 11/24/2011 7:29:47 AM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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Good Lord, it’s the battle flag not the CSA flag. What is it with these people?


3 posted on 11/24/2011 7:34:47 AM PST by WHBates
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The race baiting NAALCP can kiss my southern butt.
Oh, and Happy Thanksgiving!


4 posted on 11/24/2011 7:42:22 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: octavius21
More cheap shots to get Boama more time to destroy America.
5 posted on 11/24/2011 7:42:50 AM PST by mountainlion (I am voting for Sarah after getting screwed again by the DC Thugs.)
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Nikki must be a white supremacist .... uh, wait...
6 posted on 11/24/2011 7:43:26 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.~Admiral Yamamoto)
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Facts, we don’t need no stinking facts. It is offensive. It is racist. It is... well, something to protest about.

Opponents better stop stirring the hornets nest.

Deo vindice


7 posted on 11/24/2011 7:46:35 AM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)
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Good Lord, it’s the battle flag not the CSA flag. What is it with these people?

Maybe they should fly the Bonnie Blue flag. These leftists were all educated in publick skools, so they wouldn't have any notion what it was.


8 posted on 11/24/2011 7:50:18 AM PST by EternalVigilance (Newt Gingrich: The go to guy when you're down to the bottom of the bottom of the barrel...)
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The leftists wouldn’t recognize the song either.


9 posted on 11/24/2011 7:54:43 AM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: EternalVigilance

Funny thing is that the American flag we all know wasn’t standardized till well after the civil war anyway. As far as battle flags go, virtually every little town that supplied soldiers had their own flag, both north and south.

http://seekingmichigan.myshopify.com/collections/michigan-civil-war-battle-flags


10 posted on 11/24/2011 7:57:14 AM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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You’re right. The official Confederate flag bore no resemblance to the battle flag but the “offended” don’t have to be right...just loud. It’s part of our (Southerners) history and the blood that was shed for a cause the South believed in makes BOTH flags revelent in OUR history. BTW, I’m not a racist just a proud Southerner.


11 posted on 11/24/2011 7:57:14 AM PST by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: EternalVigilance

You ain’t just whistlin’ Dixie with that flag......that’s my favorite! :).....oh Lord, now I’ll be humming the tune all day. LOL


12 posted on 11/24/2011 7:59:06 AM PST by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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I have, on occasion, displayed a Hardee Flag. Very few people know anything about it.
13 posted on 11/24/2011 8:03:55 AM PST by schurmann
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To: octavius21

EXCELLENT column!


14 posted on 11/24/2011 8:05:53 AM PST by patriot preacher
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To: EternalVigilance

I have flown both the Bonnie Blue and the first Confederate National flag in front of my house and no one around knew what they were.


15 posted on 11/24/2011 8:06:53 AM PST by Inyo-Mono (My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
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The 1st amend means nothing to the leftist aka progressives!


16 posted on 11/24/2011 8:07:29 AM PST by DMG2FUN
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...After General Robert E. Lee’s surrender, President Abraham Lincoln said: “Now Let the Band Play Dixie; it belongs neither to the South, nor to the North but to us all.”


17 posted on 11/24/2011 8:10:31 AM PST by onedoug (lf)
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What is it with these people?

Most of them wouldn't know the CSA flag if they saw it.

18 posted on 11/24/2011 8:13:28 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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This one has. Stick the thing in a museum if you want. It’s not a ‘’racist’’ thing with me. More people were enslaved under the Stars and Stripes than the Stars and Bars. To be it represents the emblem of secessionist treason. And Happy Thanksgiving to all you Americans, Yankess and Rebs.


19 posted on 11/24/2011 8:16:39 AM PST by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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The 1st amend means nothing to the leftist aka progressives!

Nah, that whole 1st Amendment thing is only for causes they support. When it is something they disagree with, so-called "liberals" and "progressives" are anything but tolerant. The hypocrisy would be funny if they weren't so serious about it.

20 posted on 11/24/2011 8:16:56 AM PST by ThunderSleeps (Stop obama now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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