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re: What value does the Confederate battle flag have?

Posted on 6/22/20 at 7:26 pm to
Posted by Toomer Deplorable
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Posted on 6/22/20 at 7:26 pm to
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“Sirs, you have no reason to be ashamed of your Confederate dead; see to it they have no reason to be ashamed of you.”
Robert Lewis Dabney, Chaplain for Stonewall Jackson


What President waged a war that was overwhelmingly unpopular in the nation’s largest urban cities?

What President unleashed combat troops from the battlefield to assault citizen protestors in New York City?

What President unilaterally suspended the writ of habeas corpus and arrested thousands of private citizens in the dark of night and held them in political prison camps?

What President ignored a Supreme Court Justice’s ruling that the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus was unConstitutional and should be reinstated?

What president had a newspaper editor arrested for criticizing the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus?

What President had a sitting member of Congress arrested for criticizing the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus?

What President had his soldiers bombard and destroy newspaper buildings and newspaper printing plants that were critical of the war effort or even dared questioned the President’s policies?

What President was involved in telegraphic censorship of newspapers critical of the President’s policies?

What President declared he would abandon the U.S. Constitution to save the Union?

What President said he cared not in freeing the slaves but only in saving the Union?

What President is uniformly hailed by the leaders of the Uniparty® as one of the greatest Presidents ever for “saving the Union?”








Posted by Champagne
Already Conquered USA.
Member since Oct 2007
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Posted on 6/22/20 at 7:32 pm to
It has no value right now. However, I predict that one day history will record that flag as the last American flag to go down after a bitter, years long bloody fight.

The more RECENT American flags - -

- - I predict will Surrender without a fight.
Posted by Breesus
House of the Rising Sun
Member since Jan 2010
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Posted on 6/22/20 at 7:33 pm to
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what are we fighting this for?


You don’t negotiate with terrorists
Posted by Auburn1968
NYC
Member since Mar 2019
19718 posts
Posted on 6/22/20 at 7:54 pm to
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I had ancestors that fought under that flag so it has importance to me but I have relatives that fought under the American flag as well. Both are important to me.


I think a lot of us did.

Going to Gettysburg on the 4th of July is a great experience. A great many in both the Confederate and Union re-enactor camps had ancestors on both sides.
Posted by Wolfhound45
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Posted on 6/22/20 at 7:56 pm to
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vexillology
Learned something today.
Posted by Auburn1968
NYC
Member since Mar 2019
19718 posts
Posted on 6/22/20 at 7:57 pm to
What President corresponded with Karl Marx and thought his ideas were very interesting?
Posted by navy
Parts Unknown, LA
Member since Sep 2010
29076 posts
Posted on 6/22/20 at 8:04 pm to
I was, am, and always shall be a fan of The Fabulous Freebirds.

Michael PS Hayes
Terry Gordy
Buddy Roberts



Posted by La Place Mike
West Florida Republic
Member since Jan 2004
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Posted on 6/22/20 at 8:12 pm to
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vexillology


quote:

Learned something today.


I had to look it up too.
Posted by Wolfhound45
Hanging with Chicken in Lurkistan
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Posted on 6/22/20 at 8:22 pm to
What President arrested members of the Maryland legislature as they met to consider articles of secession?
Posted by Toomer Deplorable
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Member since May 2020
17985 posts
Posted on 6/22/20 at 8:27 pm to
Anyone see the ad banner at Talladega today? One intangible value of the flag is that it has become a form of protest against the PC pablum of the progs. That is it’s main attraction today.






This post was edited on 6/22/20 at 8:29 pm
Posted by Me
Nebraska
Member since Oct 2003
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Posted on 6/22/20 at 8:50 pm to
It's not for you to determine what value it holds for anyone else.
Posted by TbirdSpur2010
ALAMO CITY
Member since Dec 2010
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Posted on 6/22/20 at 9:19 pm to
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had to look it up too.



Sorry

I like flags.
Posted by stomp
Bama
Member since Nov 2014
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Posted on 6/22/20 at 11:37 pm to
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It's not for you to determine what value it holds for anyone else.


I didn't try to determine what it meant to anyone. I just wanted to know why some people are so hot and heavy about keeping it on taxpayer funding entities.

I don't care if its on somebody's truck, tshirt, hat.. hell, paint your house in the stars and bars and I'll damn fight somebody that tries to take away your right to do it.

But on a state flag? In a court house? Why?
This post was edited on 6/22/20 at 11:38 pm
Posted by SammyTiger
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Feb 2009
66855 posts
Posted on 6/22/20 at 11:40 pm to
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I have zero love for the confederacy or the cause for which that flag flew. However, it does have value as an historical artifact. It's a part of the fabric of this nation--you have to take the good and the bad. It all contributed to the America we know today. Also, from a vexillology standpoint, it has tremendous value.


Yeah but does it really lose that value when you stop flying it at a state capital or bad it from a NASCAR event?
Posted by Big Scrub TX
Member since Dec 2013
33599 posts
Posted on 6/23/20 at 12:01 am to
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Yeah but does it really lose that value when you stop flying it at a state capital or bad it from a NASCAR event?
Of course not. It's the same silly notion that removing a statue "destroys history".

I still haven't had a single person answer my question about why it wasn't a travesty that Tivoli Circle's history was DESTROYED by the arrival of Lee's Circle and the statue of Lee.
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