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Austin mayor boycotting Veterans Day Parade where Confederate flags will fly
kxan ^ | Nov. 9, 2017 | Jacqulyn Powell

Posted on 11/09/2017 4:08:56 PM PST by bgill

Austin Mayor Steve Adler announced he will not participate in this year’s Veterans Day Parade, held Saturday on Congress Avenue, because some groups signed up to march will be carrying the Confederate flag. “Veterans Day should only be about honoring United States Military Veterans,” Adler said in a statement Thursday morning. “Symbols of racism, Civil War secession, and white supremacy should not be forgotten or erased, but they need to be remembered and studied in museums and classrooms not cheered and applauded in parades.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: addled; adler; austin; dixie; flag; liberalagenda; mayor; racecard; tx
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Austin, the uber liberal blight on TX.
1 posted on 11/09/2017 4:08:56 PM PST by bgill
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Just can’t take a mayor who has the same name as a drug-addled former Guns N’ Roses drummer seriously. Even worse, a Dem.


2 posted on 11/09/2017 4:12:00 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

Piss on Austin. It ain’t weird...It just sucks.


3 posted on 11/09/2017 4:15:09 PM PST by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: bgill

...all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

When, Texas, will you right yourself?

Stephen F. Austin, Sam Houston, all those who died for Texas Independence, those who lived to fight the Comanche, where are you now that we need you again?


4 posted on 11/09/2017 4:17:13 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: bgill

Oh lord,the old “white supremacy” crap.

I live in the north and have NEVER associated the Confederate flag with anything negative——not once.

It was a regional Southern flag. Period.

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5 posted on 11/09/2017 4:21:01 PM PST by Mears
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To: bgill

Vets wouldn’t want you there either.


6 posted on 11/09/2017 4:22:08 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~)
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To: Mears

That’s how I saw it. The resemblance to many European flags just said to me that there was no malice in it.


7 posted on 11/09/2017 4:23:21 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: dsc

We could right ourselves by moving the capitol back to Washington on the Brazos.


8 posted on 11/09/2017 4:25:28 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: bgill

Who wants him there anyway?


9 posted on 11/09/2017 4:29:53 PM PST by FrdmLvr
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To: bgill

By US law Confederate veterans are US veterans. The Austin Mayor is ignorant of US law and customs.


10 posted on 11/09/2017 4:30:14 PM PST by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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To: bgill

Liberals don’t like us military anymore than they do the memory of the CSA military

Unless they could stock the CSA with fags and trannies too


11 posted on 11/09/2017 4:43:00 PM PST by wardaddy (Virtue signalers shozuld be shot on sight...conservative ones racked and hanged then fed to dogs)
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To: bgill

Mayor takes a knee.


12 posted on 11/09/2017 4:45:10 PM PST by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? -Homer Simpson)
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I’m not sure that would do it. Wherever you move it, scumbags will try to follow. There are still a lot more men who need killing than there are horses that need stealing.


13 posted on 11/09/2017 4:45:51 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: FrdmLvr

This convenient excuse frees up the mayor for his weekly “servicing” which, until today, posed a conflict for the lad.


14 posted on 11/09/2017 4:47:19 PM PST by glennaro
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Poor Mayor needs a safe room, padded. My heart bl-e-e-eeeds for him


15 posted on 11/09/2017 4:53:46 PM PST by Bodega (we are developing less and less common sense...world wide)
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“Veterans Day should only be about honoring United States Military Veterans,” Adler said.

THEN WHY CAN’T YOU GO HONOR VETERANS, YOU &^%#%$# JERK?!?!?! IGNORE THE FLAGS IF IT SUITS YOU.


16 posted on 11/09/2017 5:10:36 PM PST by Dr. Pritchett
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To: bgill

Austin is the terminal “liberal cancer” tumor growing in Texas. The universities are now fully functional liberal indoctrination centers of Cal-Tex. Public schools will quickly follow. A wooden stake through the heart will not kill them...only the withdrawal of all funding for their operation will.


17 posted on 11/09/2017 5:32:04 PM PST by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: bgill

How very enlightened of this mayor. No one wants him there anyway with that attitude.


18 posted on 11/09/2017 5:34:37 PM PST by Boomer (It'sOK2BWhite)
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To: bgill

Put a Confederate flag in the mayor’s face.


19 posted on 11/09/2017 5:39:20 PM PST by onedoug
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To: bgill

...“Veterans Day should only be about honoring United States Military Veterans...

Confederate Veterans are United States Veterans per Act of Congress.
Idiot statement from an idiot Democrat. Don’t confuse them with facts.


20 posted on 11/09/2017 5:49:38 PM PST by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
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