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House votes to ban Confederate flags on VA cemetery flagpoles
sgtrock21
Posts: 1,933 Senior Member
This was "wonderful" news to wake up to this morning. It proves to me that at least 265 members of our house of representatives have absolutely no sense of honor/respect. Many Confederate soldiers are buried with honors in our national cemeteries including Arlington. What is their next step? Dig them up and "chunk" them in landfills?
House votes to ban Confederate flags on VA cemetery flagpoles
BY ANDREW TAYLOR
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has voted to ban the display of the Confederate flag on flagpoles at Department of Veterans Affairs cemeteries.
The 265-159 vote would block descendants and others seeking to commemorate veterans of the Confederate States of America from flying the Confederate Battle Flag over mass graves, even on days that flag displays are permitted.
California Democrat Jared Huffman authored the prohibition, saying the flag represents "racism, slavery and division."
After a mass shooting at a South Carolina black church last year, the state legislature ordered the flag removed from the capitol in Columbia.
The House approved amendments last year to block the display and sale of the Confederate flag at national parks but a backlash from Southern Republicans caused GOP leaders to scrap the underlying spending bill.
This story has been corrected to reflect that the cemeteries are part of the Department of Veterans Affairs, not the Veterans Administration.
House votes to ban Confederate flags on VA cemetery flagpoles
BY ANDREW TAYLOR
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has voted to ban the display of the Confederate flag on flagpoles at Department of Veterans Affairs cemeteries.
The 265-159 vote would block descendants and others seeking to commemorate veterans of the Confederate States of America from flying the Confederate Battle Flag over mass graves, even on days that flag displays are permitted.
California Democrat Jared Huffman authored the prohibition, saying the flag represents "racism, slavery and division."
After a mass shooting at a South Carolina black church last year, the state legislature ordered the flag removed from the capitol in Columbia.
The House approved amendments last year to block the display and sale of the Confederate flag at national parks but a backlash from Southern Republicans caused GOP leaders to scrap the underlying spending bill.
This story has been corrected to reflect that the cemeteries are part of the Department of Veterans Affairs, not the Veterans Administration.
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Erasing history they decided they don't like under the guise of whatever PC baloney is fashionable at the time and agreeing to do it because not that they give a rats ass, but it will gain them VOTES if they do and cost them if they don't (they think, anyhow).
Hell man, if the Stars and Bars flew in all 50 states, at least, Southern gentlemen would be gracious enough to let the Stars and Stripes fly to honor their war dead and heroes at monuments/memorials/statues/cemeteries.
Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!
Need to know anything more?
I guess the anus chapeaus forgot that part about Federal law that treats Confederate grave sites at national cemeteries the same as Union grave sites. Democrats tend to run roughshod over any Federal law or regulation that gets in the way of their agenda. More from the party of the mentally deficient and morally bankrupt.
― Douglas Adams
That sounds like a broken record. All the PC Politicians jump on the Vote band wagon. Same words put me to sleep and sound so fake, which they are.
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
Exactly, just like all those warning labels on Tobacco and Alcohol products work so good to make people abstain from their use. And to go one step further, like taking guns away from the law abiding is going to end crime in the U.S.
What's NOT to love?
All of this horse hockey for one thing.
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
They can pound sand. I'm a yankee by birth, but southern at heart.
Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!
Amen!!
Luis
He must have! Didn't they award him the Nobel Peace prize? Surely he did SOMETHING to deserve that! <sarcasm>
Luis
Dogma by any other name remains the same.
Jerry
The ignorance of the Left will tear this amazing nation apart, and it's already doing a pretty good job of that. If we let the left win this election I'm pretty sure we're done for it as we know this amazing nation. It would amaze me if it could recover again after that. I'll take my chances with Trump.
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
Down the road a couple miles from me is a road called No Pone Valley Road. It acquired that name during the Civil War when sherman's troops came through. They took EVERYTHING resembling food, and all the cattle, hogs, chickens, horses and mules. They pillaged any valuables that they could steal and carry away, which wasn't much. It was, after all, East TN. There wasn't any corn left to grind into cornmeal, so no one had any meal to make corn pone, hence the name No Pone Valley. Funny thing about Tennessee, it's divided into the Three Grand Divisions, East, Middle, and West. East TN was pro Union until the Union showed up. At that point the hornet's nest was kicked hard, and the results are history for those who care to read it. East TN became virulently Confederate in short order. :roll2:
I'm still waiting for the filthy slimeballs in power to start taking down the Confederate memorials at the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park. There have been several attempts already to remove the monument at Stone Mountain, GA because it is 'politically incorrect'. Kind of the same motivation the Taliban had when they destroyed all those Buddhist monuments in Afghanistan; same kind of mindset. Destroy that which does not reinforce their narrow minded system of beliefs. The Progressive Left is the American Taliban, IMO, and worthy of the label.
― Douglas Adams
Jerry
Idea: We tell Vietnam that if they find any more remains of American soldiers, they can keep them, and in the bull***t spirit of "peace through unity" they can dig up and ship over a few Viet Cong dead and we'll bury them good and proper at, say, Gettysburg. Feel the love!
I have no idea why the discrimination against the Confederacy, its heroes, and its insignia persists, but it is rank hypocrisy.
Nothing inflammatory here. No hubris. No malice.
No kidding?
:popcorn:
Don't Declaration of Independence much, do ya! And the Constitution was NOT a suicide pact until the end of the War of Northern Aggression made it so.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
Jefferson just waved his willy at ya with that bold part! :rotflmao:
― Douglas Adams
Ha!Ha!Ha! What y'all expect? Libtards never did get that part. That's the problem.
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
Read it. Absorb it. Repeat it.:worthy:
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
I do not believe that we should re-write history, unless doing so is an effort to establish or clarify truth. It is what it is.
Soldiers who fight for what they believe in should be honored by those who benefited from their service, who shared their beliefs, or simply respect their willingness to sacrifice their lives for a cause they deemed worthy.
Whether or not I agree with the cause for which Confederate Soldiers died is irrelevant, in my opinion. They are Americans. I respect them. Let them fly whatever flag they want.
Moving on..........
How do you feel about the British flag, we fought two wars with the British Empire?