Sipsey Street Irregulars: Move over "Don't Tread On Me," the Confederate battle flag is the new emblem of protest.

Thursday, July 16, 2015

Move over "Don't Tread On Me," the Confederate battle flag is the new emblem of protest.

This was inevitable. In Oklahoma, protesters greet Obama with Confederate flags.

According to local news organizations, a man named Andrew Duncomb, who calls himself the “black rebel,” organized the Confederate flag demonstration. He also put together a similar protest on Saturday at the Oklahoma State Capitol — just a day after South Carolina removed its contested flag from the State Capitol grounds. His Facebook page features photos from that rally.

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Harry_the_Horrible said...: Nope.

The Gadsden flag is a flag of the Revolution and belongs to the entire country. Likewise the Bennington flag, and the Pine Tree (An Appeal to Heaven) flag. All of these are good for protesting Washington.

The Confederate battle flag belongs to the South, for good or bad. We shouldn't use it except for states rights issues in the South. It is a flag about dividing the country when interests of various groups became incompatible. And, well, we lost.

What we should really star considering, however, is adopting the Bonnie Blue Flag.; July 16, 2015 at 1:14 PM
Anonymous said...: Yeah! Mine is on order!; July 16, 2015 at 2:26 PM
FedUp said...: History lesson from South Dakota, and how one asshole has twisted his panties into a knot over the Union-Confederate partnership that founded a city.

http://politistick.com/this-towns-police-department-refuses-to-cave-to-the-pc-police-over-the-confederate-flag/; July 17, 2015 at 5:44 AM
Anonymous said...: "The Confederate battle flag belongs to the South, for good or bad."

REALLY!

How is this possible when virtually every American family, north and south, east and west, black and white, was impacted by that war?

This flag is a reminder of those times and the horrendous sacrifices of blood and treasure on all sides and more importantly, lessons learned at horrific cost. Every time you look at it you should bow your head in reverence and sorrow, in empathy for the American family. It should not be hidden but displayed and yes there is no small amount of pride involved as well because we as a people survived and became a greater nation because of that war and those lessons learned.

Unless you're a communist/Marxist because all they want to do is destroy America and make it over into a Marxist paradise, where America is a bad word and a bad thing, destroyed by the popular revolutionary forces, which began and ends with lies and fear, displacing freedom and American justice.; July 17, 2015 at 10:09 AM
Crotalus said...: Harry, did we not "divide a country" when we colonists declared our independence?; July 17, 2015 at 10:30 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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