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Speaking on a local radio program this morning, Rep. Gary Palmer, R-Ala., criticized the growing call for South Carolina to remove the Confederate battle flag that flies at the state capitol.
Political figures in South Carolina and across the country have demanded that the flag come down in the wake of the massacre at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston. The demand to remove the rebel flag grew even louder over the weekend after the discovery of Dylann Roofs manifesto, which glorified segregation and featured pictures of Roof posing with the Confederate flag.
Asked by host Matt Murphy about the controversy over the flag, Palmer said the calls to remove the flag came from people that have an agenda seeking to exploit a tragedy. He added that, to me, thats beyond contempt.
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/22/alabama-congressman-confederate-flag-removal/
3catwoman3
(24,146 posts)...what is beyond contempt.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)randys1
(16,286 posts)jeff47
(26,549 posts)in order for the post to really go away. It'll show the post again, and a big pile of yellow text warning you about the delete. In that yellow text is another link to really delete your post.
Otherwise, everyone can see the original version of the post, and any edits you have made. (It's visible to other readers by following the "permalink" link to the bottom-left of your post and scrolling to the bottom. "Permalink" isn't shown on all views of your own posts)
If you'd like an example, I edited this post so there would be edit history.
0rganism
(23,996 posts)that's pretty lame, but it's hardly the only area where there might be some tough after-tragedy questions
"Was it really a good idea to build a nuclear power plant on a fault line?"
"Would we be better off with a strong air-traffic controllers' union?"
"Did Iraq actually have WMDs?"
"Does hydraulic fracturing have an adverse impact on our ground water quality?"
"How long should we really let an interstate bridge go without regular maintenance?"
"Can you please take down the racist traitor flag?"
sometimes, the only way we get change at all is when people with "an agenda... exploit a tragedy".
myrna minx
(22,772 posts)contemptible, racist, traitorous "heritage". Puke.
Bettie
(16,151 posts)they claim to be "patriots".
Well, you can't be both, you cannot be a patriot in the USA and still cling to a failed rebellion.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,382 posts)Last edited Mon Jun 22, 2015, 05:51 PM - Edit history (1)
49 years old.
Never worked hard a day in his fucking life.
Founded and ran a conservative think tank in Alabama for 25 years (as if there would be any other kind in that state)
Hey Gary! You were born in the 1960's, for crying out loud! Smoke a joint, you asshole!
The 50's called. Uhhhh...ummmm.....no, they don't want you either.
(Well, that's very weird! My iPad keeps putting up A Cricket players Wiki page instead of the Alabama chucklehead! Well...google him yourselves!)
LunaSea
(2,895 posts)Your link is to a cricket player, btw.
This is the asshole-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Palmer_(politician)
A HERETIC I AM
(24,382 posts)I tried to correct it 4 times, copying and pasting! Oh well. On my iPad. I'll just leave it off.
Thanks.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)that screams Dorkus McGorkus. What a maroon.
mentalsolstice
(4,463 posts)Is headquartered in Montgomery, definitely not conservative.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,382 posts)spanone
(135,958 posts)Triana
(22,666 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)The winners were really rather nice about the whole thing, considering how nasty the war had been
.. At around 2:00 in the afternoon on April 9, Lee and Grant met at the McLean House in the village with a group of officers. The Union general granted Lee favorable terms of surrender: allowing the men to return to their homes and letting the officers, cavalrymen, and artillerymen keep their swords and horses if the men agreed to lay down their arms and abide by federal law. Grant even supplied food to the Rebels, who were desperately low on rations ... The formal ceremony and collection of weapons took place on April 12 under the supervision of Brig. Gen. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. As ranks of Confederate soldiers came forward to hand over their weapons and flags, Chamberlain ordered his men to salute their defeated adversaries as a gesture of respect ...
www.civilwar.org/battlefields/appomattox-courthouse/appomattox-court-house-history/appomattoxcourthouse.html
Jeff Davis was never hanged from a sour apple tree
Now, a hundred fifty years later, almost everybody has gotten over it, except for a handful of hateful fringe lunatics who still fondly recall the years of chattel slavery. And it's a sad thing to see you sucking up for the crazy vote, Gary
pnwmom
(109,028 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)Sallllll-yoot!
Martin Eden
(12,888 posts)......... and show their racist stripes.
Missn-Hitch
(1,383 posts)FSogol
(45,599 posts)Missn-Hitch
(1,383 posts)FSogol
(45,599 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)PIG!!!!
LibertyLover
(4,788 posts)as a conservative Republican aren't you all about States' Rights? If South Carolina decides to step into the 21st Century and stop flying the flag of a treasonous group, that's their business and not yours. So STFU.
niyad
(114,004 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)on point
(2,506 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)1Greensix
(111 posts)CSA was an enemy state to the United States, even though Lincoln said it wasn't as a way of demonstrating his compassion for the fallen South. Anyone flying that flag is an enemy of the United States, just as if they flew the flag of ISIS, the NVA, or any other avowed enemy. Hundreds of thousands died to make sure that racist rag ended up in the dirt and only Our enemies would even think of picking it back up. I can't help that their ancestors were slave owners or racist rednecks. That's their problem, not mine. They were the enemy and they lost the war. Get over it. If it had been most Yankees at the time, instead of Lincoln, all those racist traitors would have been hung or shot. Any state that flies the flag of the CSA should have all federal funding cut, and we all know the Red states get a lot more federal dollars than they donate to the feds in taxes.
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)spanone
(135,958 posts)lastlib
(23,393 posts)It happened.
Take it down. Today.