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Should the Confederate Flag be banned?

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  • Start Date:
    11-27-2007
  • Last Vote:
    4-14-2009

Issue:

Do you think the Confederate Flag should be banned?

 

Belief:

The best-known Confederate flag was the Battle Flag, or "Southern Cross". The Battle Flag was designed due to the fact that the "Stars and Bars" was so similar to the "Stars and Stripes" . This Battle Flag was agreed upon. Other flags such as State regimental colors were used by the Confederacy on the battlefield, but the Battle Flag, although it was never officially recognized by the Confederate government, came to represent the Southern "cause" to most people. The square Battle Flag was carried by Confederate troops in the field which were the vast majority of forces under the confederacy.
Used as a navy jack at sea from 1863 onward, the rectangular Battle Flag pictured above has become the generally recognized symbol of the South. Many recognize the Battle Flag from the
Dukes of Hazzard. The Battle Flag was painted on the top of their car. The Battle Flag has also appeared on several southern state flags at one time. It continues to be a part of the Mississippi state flag


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I am Kin to a Confederate General, and thats what I want to be. If you was born in the south you are a Confederate by birth. Don't even tell me your not a brave confederate we fought a war to tell about and we will fight again someday soon. Fly Your Confederate flags if you have guns to back it up. I've got black people hanging crosses on our doors up here so watch your backs when fly the flags. Let us come together and make our stand in Dixieland. I am ready to leave the U.S.A. and take my last stand on southern ground are ya'll?
No Law says you can't be racist. I'm glad to be a Confederate. I'm glad I'm kin to Confederate General James Henry Lane, Henry Elkins and Joseph Milton Elkins
I was in a gang for a while I am no longer with them. I used to dress like the black people I even listend to their rap music and now since Obama that has changed. I am no longer a **** wanna be but now I think the south is the only hope to stop Obama. I am not a U.S.A citizen I am a C.S.A. citizen by birth and that is what I am now I hope some one stops obama before the years out now I am a little Racist to the blacks because of Obama
Well my land lady said I can't fly the C.S.A. flags on 29 I kept the grass cut over there on 29 now you can watch the grass grow because I'm not aloud back over there let that grass grow up to their asses then. I will fly my C.S.A. flags on 29 but I'll be on state ground.
The Confederate Flags is not a racist symbol The KKK used both the battle flag and the US flag for there Racist symbol
I thougt rebels helped one another when things get tough. So do something and help me
Confederates in V.A. I need your help more than ever. I can no longer fly my flags in the south. The north said so. If you want to help you will need an army to help me now. We need over one hunderd men with guns ready to fight in Warrenton V.A. If the flag can't fly then the north will have to kill me because I will die with that flag in my hand. This **** is not a joke. There's no law saying we can't fly our flags. If no one will help then I will make my stand alone and I will be out gunned I can't stand alone
Fly your Confederate flags every where on your Vans,Cars, and your trucks. Even in your yards. Will you help restore the south? If we do nothing the south will be gone forever. If you make a stand and fly your flags the south would rise again. And >Register For Confederate citizenship<. online ^ thats what you type in up there
We fought the civil war and lost, But we killed more of the north than they killed of us most the time we was out numbered. So how did we do that? We killed 300,000 and some they the north only killed 200,000 and some Free the South and restore our nation back where it should be. It will take all of the people so help reform the Confederate states not just me and don't fear the north.
THE CONFEDERATE REBELLION IS RE-SURFACING Stand up for gods army Thats the C.S.A.
The ku klux klan made our flags look bad they are Racist against blacks. We Confederates are not racist. We get along fine with the blacks that know the truth about the C.S.A.
If North Korea fires a warhead to Hawaii the C.S.A. or the U.S.A. would shoot it down very fast and then go there and rage war in there land.
How many Confederates are there in V.A. ?
POSITION OF THE CSA Immigration: Approved by the C.S.A. Council May 14,2006 Foreigners are welcome to enter the Confederate States of America legally as guests utilizing various types of Visas or Work Permits. Foreigners found in the C.S.A. without papers shall be considered INVADERS and, if from a nation at war with the C.S.A.. , may be held as suspected spies or Prisoners of War under the Geneva Convention or shall otherwise be subject to arrest, fines or incarceration and deportation.
If you live in Virginia and want to help the C.S.A. We need to hold a flag rally like they did in Georgia. I am tierd of people going by and flicking us off yesterday I flicked them off right back that makes me mad because I am Kin to some that lost their lives as a result of the civil war. Heres all their names this is my moms side Joseph Milton Elkins, and Henry Elkins was killed in the battle of seven pines
Have you seen whats happing in Tennessee them Yanks trying to take our guns from us. Have you ever lived where the army and police are the only ones with guns? I say if that happens all Confederates need to come together and make them know these Confederate Colors don't run if you all know what I mean. Stand up and Defend our rights to bare arms
The Confederates need to Stick with each other once again its 2009 get your flags and help me Keep them flying
Since when does a General surrender for a Nation and its Government? Robert E. Lee surrendered his Northern Virginia Army because they were out of ammunition and were starving to death waiting to be overrun by Sherman's well fed Yankee Army who had plenty of ammunition. Several other Confederate Generals were still in the field with troops elsewhere. Meanwhile, President Jefferson Davis was making an emergency relocation of the seat of the Confederate Gonernment, along with most of the cabinet of the Confederate States of America, ultimately headed for texas where it was believed that the remaining Generals could hold back the Yankee forces. President Davis, however, was captured and imprisoned, but, Judah Benjamin, the secretary of state, escaped to London, England. President Davis and Secretary of State Benjamin both refused to surrender the Government of the C.S.A. and thus no surrender ever occurred and no peace Treaty was ever signed. Thus a state of war, declared upon the South by Abraham Lincoln, still persists resulting in continued occupation.
Our population is nearly equal to that of the North whereas 145 years ago we had only about 1/5th of the population of the north. Two thirds of the military of the federal union are southern men today, mostly from State National Guard units in the south. Those units will, of course, no longer be available to the President of a foreign nation whether it might be Great Britain, Germany or the Federal Union of the United States, but instead will answer to their own State governors. Yet, when voluntarily put at the command of the General Government of the C.S.A. by those governors, they will compose the already equipped and trained National Guard units from some 15 Southern States and will make up a World class military force capable of heavy and effective defense of the southland. (Much more so than 145 years ago.)
NO NO NO NO
KEEP HER FLYING I AM MIGHTY PROUND OF THAT FLAG
If you have Internet type in Register for Confederate Citizenship. I am kin to Confederate General James Henry Lane. There are tens of millions of folks in the country who are Confederates at heart. There are tens of millions of other folks who would be Confederates at heart if they knew the truth.
I am kin to Confederate General- James Henry Lane I am James R Lane. God will save our south we must reform a Confederate Government at all costs. Don't take our flag down that will start civil war part 2

i am a white sourthern and it did stand for a war for slavery.

I am a Confederate and the war was not fought over slavery. The Confederate Constitution Made the slave trade illegal two years before the war
I am a southern and you are an idiot. Look at all the post you have made. get a life man.

the war it stands for is the civil war where we sourtherns fought to keep slaves. that is why it offends people.

I AM A SOURTHERN maybe the flag means something different to some people but really if it offends a group of people than don't display it why start trouble when there is no cause for it

The Conferderate flag is part of US history, how do you ban a part of history that formed who we are today?

For longer than I can remember, (I'm almost 50) Hollywood, the media and non-southerners have always tried to sterotype any southerner. Hicks, rednecks, hillbillies, those are the nicer things. Inbred, uneducated, it goes on and on. I've traveled all over America as a truck driver and as a sightseer. I've met good and bad everywhere. But the one thing that always seems to be inherit with the ones that speak the loudest about negatives toward southerners is, the total or almost total lack of any real interaction with a southerner. If you choose to live in a nice log home in the south, you must be a hick, hillbilly. But if you choose to live in a nice log home on a lake in Michigan, well you must be well off or maybe a tad eccentric. If you choose to own a gun in the south you must be a red neck, if you choose to own one up north, well you must be a sportsman. If you choose to fly a confederate flag in the south you must be a racist, yet if you fly a flag say of your native land Germany,Japan,Russia, Iraq or Iran etc... all nationalies known for human rights violations and even genocidal histories in their past...well that's OK! You see my point of the double standards? There is a quote from the book Southern by the Grace of God, a man once replied upon being asked, 'When will you southerner's stop fighting the civil war, it's over', his reply was "when you yankees stop shooting at us". I can't top that one. But once while driving through Akron, Ohio, I heard a fellow on my CB, slandering southerners as usual. I let him finish his rant. Then I asked this question, "why is it so many northerner's save up there money for retirement, move down south, and after six months start complaining about how much better it was back up north?" "If it was so good why didn't you just do everyone a favor and stay the F#ck up there?" It was quiet for a moment, then I heard another southern voice reply 'Preach it brother!' Then another voice said 'Now, now... we all salute the stars and stripes', the the first voice said, 'yeah but ours is configured different from yours'. I will always maintain my ancestors fought and died for the southern flag, defending their land from a northern invader, ones that raped, looted, arsoned, & murdered. (None of them owned a slave..I researched it!). That flag is as much a part of me as the blood in my veins. I'll be damed if you'll take it away from me!
Deo Vindice,
Rest in peace ye southern heroes,
your sons and daughters hold you
secure in our hearts forever!

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