Sabrina Hughes: What a waste of time. It was a float in a parade, for Pete’s sake, get over it and move on. Good grief, hypersensitive people always butt hurt over something. Of course king Chuck had to put in his two cents, I swear that man doesn’t have a life.
Jeremy Stenerson: As I grew up all it meant to me was “rebel.” Now, because this country is nothing but a bunch of panty wearing crotch sniffers, EVERYTHING is offensive. There’s an old saying that if you give someone a hammer they’re going to look for nails, and that’s exactly what is happening. People are finding any reason to protest.
Sunny Barclift: It was a bad idea. Period. That flag unfortunately has lost its historical significance. It is a symbol now of hate, bigotry and white supremacy. What’s wrong with using our national flag? This conversation wouldn’t be happening if they had done that. It’s really too bad.
Doni Ward: How many people have been told “NEVER MIX POLITICS OR RELIGION WITH BUSINESS “ heard that for years. Apparently some people thought they were invincible.
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username: JESB
I’m happy to see so many positive thinkers now, regarding this controversy. It was not just commonly understood back then during those unfortunate years of conflict, but a fact that can be found by studying the original intent of Article 10 (X) of the Constitution. Perhaps an example will help, for those who are a bit blinded by emotion, and require such; You live in your home, and your home is in a town. Your town has a government, and you are glad that it has (to protect authors, inventers, coin money and regulate commerce, raise an army when necessary, collect taxes fairly, etc...) so you and the other townspeople can look at it for protection. You wouldn’t, however, like for the town government to dictate matters inside your home. That’s your affair. Just so, the States’ felt that their own affairs, their local problems, could be managed without meddling from the outside. It was only when the Washington DC government began reaching out for too much power, and intruding into problems of the States, that the issue of ‘State’s Rights’ became an issue. The people who believe in States’ Rights are loyal to the United States but wish to be let alone to manage their local affairs. They knew from past history, that a centralized Federal government would become so strong that everything would be dictated from a central government, ( a corrupted handful of persons dictating how everyone else would live and die. See the Morill Tariff Act, and study it. Everything taxed, was a product from the Southern States. There is much more to these things than people realize these days. Also, reading the factual records of the atrocities committed upon Northern States citizens who disagreed with those in government willfully usurping the Constitution, were systematically harassed, threatened, incarcerated, beaten, imprisoned, and in many cases executed (murdered) by their own government sanctioned minions, as well as the ignorant citizenry. There are hundreds of documented accounts recording these crimes. See ‘American Bastille’ by John Marshall, written in 1881. It would be wise to compare the Magna Charta, The Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution of the United States. The Magna Charta secured personal liberty, The Declaration proclaimed it, and the Constitution guaranteed it; and yet, notwithstanding the experience and progress of more than 802 years,they have been almost totally disregarded in today’s America....where we boast so much of personal rights and personal liberty. Hopefully, that is soon to change. It starts at home. God Bless America! Semper Fi !!!
username: TruthCanHurt
Liberals! What do we say to the next liberal who is offended by the American flag, as is already happening? The removal of the ‘Confederate’ flag does not change the attitude of those might have ‘real’ negative feeling toward certain people. May be those who have negative connotations when they see this flag, should look at the flag in a different way. A reminder of how not to treat people and or part of our, unfortunate host, instead of negative connotations. Do we respond to every one who is offended by something? It was 150 years ago. Seriously!
