I freely admit I bought one just because the PC overreaction is such crap.

Bought a Mississippi state flag too, before they decide to "revise" it to placate the ignorant.

I believe that so many people have jumped on the politically correct bandwagon that having the freedom to have honest and open discussions and debate will be lost on future generations.. Heck, they're already lost on this one.

I have always wanted to ask someone about this, X88. What was so jolly about roger?

I was going to "Jump right in" to the above topic then I got the following notice:??

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I really agree with number 1 attacking a person rather than the position they are maintaining is such a widely used liberal policy that it make me see red. Whenever. However it seems like commenters could self regulate anyone advocating antithetical positions, Whatever those are?
Antithetical positions? As in ??? Murdering babies and selling their parts?? Or legalizing drugs?? (Which to some degree I do advocate.) Or starting a foundation to to improve global health and wellness, increase opportunity for women and so on...and then funnel money to myself and family through thinly disguised distributions?? How about ordering federal agencies to audit political opposition??

I think I have it, the mediators don't want politicians contributing to this comment community.

We should burn the original UNION flag for all the bad things THEY did during the civil war. Not letting states secede wasnt right, especially for the reasons they espoused. The real reason was the loss of the economic power of the south that the north wanted to keep under control

This whole deal of ridding America of the Confederate Battle is sanitizing our history. These liberal apes what to purge the Civil War from our history. I plan to purchase the Battle Flag for Historical purposes before there all gone. As some of the members know I believe that Secession might be the only way to get the Feds off our butts. It seems to me the Feds are trying to micromanage what goes on in many states. Out here in the Wild , Wild, Wild West we just want to be left alone. No, the Fed wants to come in and destroy our way aka rounding up and destroying the Salt River Wild Horses. The EPA wants to take way our woodburning stoves we use for heat in the winter (too much carbon pollution). They want to restrict water we use here, as it is that every community and water companies have restrictions. What, we won't be able to bathe anymore, eat or drink anymore?!!!
That's right kill off the Western Conservative Cowboys and Gals!!!!!!!

that's sick. . like my recycling my notes for a concordance
of Atlas Shrugged (after I read it for the 3rd time) because
I was afraid that they might be found by someone who
would blackmail me over it. . this was back in the seventies --
you had to be there. . a Q clearance was involved. -- j
.

I live in South Carolina, and in the weeks since we brought down the Battle Flag, I have seen that flag flown on more cars, houses, campers, ect. than in the prior 11 years I have lived here. Go figure.

I DO have my facts straight. And I know that
Lincoln was not a perfect person, and that at first
freeing the slaves was not his main interest. But
other states claimed that slavery was necessary
for their economics. And it is still true that slavery existed in this country before the War,
and afterwards it was gone; and that if the War
had gone the other way the continuation of
slavery would have been the end result.

The government should not be sponsoring a flag
of treason and slavery. Neither should it issue
license plates (as it has in Virginia) featuring such.
(As to an individual's freedom of speech, he can
fly such a flag on his car antenna, or put a bumper sticker on the car). As to state seces-
sion being a right, individuals have rights; the
slaves did not get a vote on that one. Slavery
existed before and during the Civil War; when
it was over, it was abolished; if it had gone the
other way, the continuation of slavery would
have been the end result.

I also heard that various pill manufacturers were pulling their products because the cotton ball inside reminds the aggrieved of picking cotton, and therefore slavery and racism. /sarc

Maybe he said he burned them meaning that they had all been sold off? burn rate is a common term in business to describe how fast you are going through supplies or money or whatever.

frankly that's what I thought when we had to pass a law against burning flags. If you buy it, do what you want with it except smother someone. it's a freedom of speech deal