You can go to hell with soebarkah, Judge.
Posted on 04/13/2016 3:57:16 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
A federal judge said Tuesday that the Confederate emblem on the Mississippi flag is "anti-American" because it represents those who fought to leave the United States.
But U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves is not yet saying whether he will fully consider a lawsuit that seeks to eliminate the flag as a state symbol.
Reeves heard more than three hours of arguments about motions in the lawsuit that Carlos Moore, an African-American attorney from Grenada, Mississippi, filed against the state. Moore is asking Reeves to declare the flag an unconstitutional relic of slavery.
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Actually, you and this judge seem to be the ones whining about it. We never mentioned it until your thong got in a wad.
***Why fly the flag of the losers?***
Because often the loser in a war can put up such a good fight that even when beaten down, he can walk away with his honor intact. All wars have battles in which honor is given to a defeated foe.
For a war that was supposed to last ninety days the Confederacy held it’s own for four long years.
“The US won the wars against England and the Confedercy. Why fly the flag of the losers?”
The U.S. lost the Vietnam war....are you flying the Vietnamese flag?
Oh yeah....learn to spell “Confederacy”.
Now this is nonsense. The causes of the Civil War were multifaceted, but to boil it down to "Northern aggression/nothing to do with slavery" is just as disingenuous as boiling it down to "The South started it by shooting at Fort Sumter/it was all about slavery." As for atrocities, the CW saw a fair share from both sides. One of my ancestors was a Massachusetts cavalryman, which has given me an interest in Yankee cav during the Civil War, and the kind of brutality they faced from Confederate partisans (many of whom were too yellow to actually join up and fight like men) is enough to make your blood run cold.
The "barbaric hordes of blue belly beasts" were doing exactly what the Confederate troops were doing, fighting for their state, and they fought with equal honor. Three of my other ancestors served in Wisconsin infantry regiments, one of them started the war a private and finished a captain, with more than one severe wound sustained in the process...And he didn't rise in the ranks for eating Southern babies.
"The Yankees" do have pride, heritage, and American soul. Even here in Massachusetts, conservatives make up about 35% of the population, but we are totally disenfranchised. My conservative southern Massachusetts town (in which I see Confederate flags on lawns and trucks everyday, btw) is somehow in the same district as an extremely liberal city 50 miles away, that replaced Good Friday with "LGBT Friday" in the public schools.
I understand you are responding to a dork who is trying to get under Southerners' skins, but that doesn't excuse tarring all Yankees with the same brush or impugning the honor of OUR ancestors.
The battle isn't between Yankees and Southerners anymore, it's between liberals and conservatives, and the majority of conservatives, regardless of where they're from, respect and honor the brave men who fought and died for the South.
The problem with that is that “any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends” didn’t exist for the south in 1860.
Good post.
Obammy appointee 2010 .. nuff said.
http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=3346&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na
There was no halftime show under the Friday night lights at Mississippi’s Brandon High School — the marching band had been benched.
The band was ordered off the field because the Christian hymn “How Great Thou Art” was a part of their halftime show — in violation of a federal court order.
Guess who issued that court order.
The South hasn’t “whipped” anybody - the United States has.
Tell the judge to pound sand and send Marshalls, in that order.
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>The problem with that is that ‘any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends’ didn’t exist for the south in 1860.
Come up w/ that nice, ol’, nothing burger retort yourself?
No, it couldn’t be the onerous tax burdens (tariffs) that attempted to keep the South as the North’s ‘slave’ (no pun intended), the anti-State’s Rights of the North, the slave vs. non in the new territories (IE: ‘law’ to benefit one over the other), etc.
Ah, but there needs to be cheerleaders for the destroyer of the 9th/10th, if not the Republic itself, no? Even Lincoln didn’t abolish slavery; until they foisted the 13th on the South by coercion (pass it and become a State again, or continue to exist under the boot heel of tyranny from the North)....Much like O’Care, SO *good*, it was FORCED, for your own benefit.
No, better minds than mine have recognized the complete lack of legitimacy of the slavers rebellion - I'm just pointing it out.
No, it couldn’t be the onerous tax burdens (tariffs) that attempted to keep the South as the North’s ‘slave’ (no pun intended), the anti-State’s Rights of the North, the slave vs. non in the new territories (IE: ‘law’ to benefit one over the other), etc.
No, it wouldn't.
Why fly the flag of the losers?
What! Meshell said all this fuss over a damn flag. You sound just like that (pronoun)
Is all of the above an option?
Four long painful years.
And it might happen again if Loretta Lynch decides to arrest the legislature in North Carolina.
Southern born and bred here but to say slavery had nothing to do with the war is like saying our involvement in the Middle East has nothing to do with oil.
“The date is ironic”
I give up. What is the irony?
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