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Why the Confederacy Lives
Politico Magazine ^
| April 08, 2015
| EUAN HAGUE
Posted on 04/10/2015 5:03:22 PM PDT by lqcincinnatus
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The issue of slavery was properly decided, so for the rest, why should we give up?
To: lqcincinnatus
We are all now slaves to the Feds. Many would like to secede from the tyranny of Bammy and DC....
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posted on
04/10/2015 5:05:16 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
To: lqcincinnatus
So, what do we care what Euan Hague thinks about what we want to do with our confederate flags?
To: lqcincinnatus
A more important question is why someone would demand that such a thing be forbidden? The intolerance of the Left apparently knows no bounds.
To: lqcincinnatus
It sure does live. It had very little to do with slavery. It was all about States rights.
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posted on
04/10/2015 5:15:32 PM PDT
by
iowacornman
(Speak out with courage!!)
To: lqcincinnatus
Secession was not wrong, it was just wasted on the CSA.
Any other secessionist movement with that much support as they did, would have won easily. The foreign intervention would have happened.
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posted on
04/10/2015 5:16:56 PM PDT
by
VanDeKoik
To: lqcincinnatus
It is a politics that harks back to the Souths proud stand in the Civil War as a way of rallying opinion against the federal governmentI'm second generation Irish. I always admired the South fighting for freedom from the oppressive federal government. I always viewed the Yankees as the Brits. The guys they threw out.
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posted on
04/10/2015 5:17:00 PM PDT
by
FatherofFive
(Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
To: lqcincinnatus
Just why would someone in 2015 want a Confederate flag on their license plate?
Some would say, For the same reason that they would put the American Flag on it.
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posted on
04/10/2015 5:18:46 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: Paladin2
[ We are all now slaves to the Feds. Many would like to secede from the tyranny of Bammy and DC.... ]
The Early Pro-Regressive Era from 1890 - 1920 is what started the ball rolling to make us all slaves....
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posted on
04/10/2015 5:25:30 PM PDT
by
GraceG
(Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
To: lqcincinnatus
Just why would someone in 2015 want a Confederate flag on their license plate?Same reason someone puts a "Celebrate Diversity" bumper sticker on their car - to make a statement?
To: lqcincinnatus
Blacks WANT to be slaves of the federal givernment..
Slave mentality brain washed in public school and black culture..
The Democrat KKK of the South... went North....
As Lyndon Banes Johnson famously said.. “Those you know whats(nigs) will be voting democrat for 200 years”..
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posted on
04/10/2015 5:37:00 PM PDT
by
hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
To: lqcincinnatus
Well, Mr. or is it Ms. EUAN HAGUE, because you were obviously not born in the South then you can never comprehend why, dumb-ox!
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posted on
04/10/2015 5:43:21 PM PDT
by
spel_grammer_an_punct_polise
(Why does every totalitarian, political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I do?)
To: SandRat
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posted on
04/10/2015 5:45:35 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
To: lqcincinnatus
In a 1st Amendment analysis, I perceive no difference between a "Sons of the Confederacy" license plate and a "Choose Life" license plate. The states have just about all authorized individually selected license plates, reflecting both membership in various organizations and the particular thought or sentiments of the vehicle owner. It has become a forum for the discussion of ideas just as surely as a newspaper, a political advert, or even this forum.
There's a lot more to the War Between the States than slavery. I am descended from Irish Famine refugees who were transported to America under virtually the same conditions as African slaves and received just as harsh treatment in the coal mines of Pennsylvania as slaves picking cotton in the South.
We - the Conservatives - recognize the right of all to free discourse. The Left squelches by any means possible any speech that it finds objectionable - like Confederate flags, et cetera, ad nauseam.
"I am an American fighting man. I serve in the forces which guard my country and our way of life. I am prepared to give my life in their defense." |
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posted on
04/10/2015 5:45:42 PM PDT
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in Battle!)
To: lqcincinnatus
“reactionary politcs”
Who talks like that?
Seriously — it sounds like something out of Dr. Zhivago.
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posted on
04/10/2015 5:46:27 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: iowacornman
Yeah, the states rights to own slaves.
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posted on
04/10/2015 5:48:21 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
(Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
To: lqcincinnatus
My Daddy always said “the South is gonna rise again”
To: centurion316
“The intolerance of the Left knows no bounds’’. Boy, irony isn’t lost on you , is it?
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posted on
04/10/2015 5:49:37 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
(Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
To: hosepipe
To: lqcincinnatus
Research the lives and character of Ullyses S Grant and Robert E Lee. The better man lost, and he proved he was the better man by conducting himself as an exemplary Christian gentleman after the war, never being bitter in spite of the war crimes committed by Union low-lifes such as Gen. Sherman.
The sons of the Confederate states have given outstanding service to the U.S. military in every war since the Civil War. Yet, vindictive and fearful partisans continue to demand that the South give up its remembrance of its history as a valiant people. We will never forget.
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