[AL] When the controversy over the Confederate flag erupted last month, the owner of a Huntsville flag company said her business would make the flags even if no one else would. And that's apparently what's happened.When the leftists try to delete an entire page in the country's history they may be resisted. Regardless of whether you identify with the blue or the gray, it still happened and the populace took it seriously enough to die for their beliefs. The tragedy of the war has always been the fact that there were admirable men on both sides, along with the bad guys and the nonentities. History didn't start with Selma. It didn't begin with WWII, regardless of what's usually playing on the History Channel.
"I'm not aware of another company in the United States making these flags," said Belinda Kennedy, owner of Alabama Flag & Banner, in an interview Thursday with AL.com.
The flags aren't illegal -- yet.
So now you know why the website for the Governors Drive business near downtown Huntsville cautions visitors that all Confederate flag orders will take two to three weeks to be filled.
It doesn't have anything to do with race. It has to do with not being told what to do. That's not government's place. The government's place is to build roads, regulate interstate commerce, and provide for national defense.
"We are getting absolutely swamped," Kennedy said. "It's let up a little but what we're finding is that people are still wanting the really pretty sewn, the ones that are more like a piece of art with the sewn stripes and the applique stars. Those are really labor intensive and it takes a long time. We're still being flooded with orders for those. We're getting tons of overseas orders. We're going as fast as we can."
My wife and I took one of our granddaughters to a movie this afternoon. Before the movie started we were subjected to three anti-smoking commercials. I had a sudden vision of We the People storming the capital, flying Confederate flags and smoking cigarettes. By the way, Antman: The Motion Picture stinks.