re: Uh oh, some people in Georgia are offended over a license plate

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I don't agree with that, but even if you took that point of view then you could say the current American flag was redeemed by the fact that we largely solved the question of human slavery for the entire world with the Union prevailing over your toothless great great grandpappies :)

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Oh, I don't doubt you disagree. That still doesn't do away with the fact that every time all of those flags were raised, every time another star was added and another commissioned, every time a soldier raised their hand to salute, or person swore allegiance to it in one capacity or another, it was in defense of the institution of slavery protected in the US Constitution prior to the 13th Amendment, a pretty curious thing considering those same flags flew when Lincoln gave his Gettysburg address some 3 years into the war finally giving a reason for the war, and some two years afterwards when the 13th was finally ratified. It was hoisted at Tripoli, at Chalmette, Algiers, when killing and driving the Seminole Indians off their land, against the Apaches, in Guadalupe, when marching the Navajos off their land, and against many many many other Native American tribes, women and children made war upon. It was even used as the flag of choice to bring slaves here because it protected the ship from being boarded and turned back or sunk by the British Navy.


You want to put blame on a piece of colored cloth! Two can play that very easily and you have the same effect.


Here's the real difference though.... The Confederate Flags only flew over slavery for a very brief period of some 5 years, while the other flags protecting the institution of slavery flew for many many decades. Some 80 some odd years sir.... That's a really long time.