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2015-07-13 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

'Offended' flea market shopper calls 911 over Confederate merchandise

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Posted by Fred 2015-07-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Charge them for the call. False report. Illegal use of Life services for political bullshit.

And enough with this flag bullshit already.

get a life

Posted by newc 2015-07-13 00:59|| 2015-07-13 00:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Joshua Sayles says. "It's not a crime but I would call it hate. People look at the situation in Charleston and say it's down in the South. But this stuff is here in Connecticut."
Oh for Petes Sake!
Would someone please tell Mr Sayles that it wasn't the Confederacy, or the Confederate Battle Flag, who shot up all those people in Charleston but one lone wacko.

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-07-13 01:12|| 2015-07-13 01:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Confederate and Nazi historical memorabilia,

No further mention, why?
To downgrade the Confederate we tie them to something else?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2015-07-13 05:58|| 2015-07-13 05:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Time to start making police calls for every Che t-shirt, red star, and so on...

Posted by Rob Crawford 2015-07-13 08:51|| 2015-07-13 08:51|| Front Page Top

#5 A letter to the editor appeared in the local newspaper this a.m. It is as follows:

Letter: Flag was not about racism
3:00 AM, Jul 13, 2015
letters to the editor
Regarding a quote from an article stating that "the flag no longer represented the valor of Southern soldiers but the racism that led the South to separate from the United States," here's a short history lesson.

When Abraham Lincoln wrote the declaration of war against the South, there was no mention of the South's racism or that the cause was to free the slaves. Just as the War of Independence was fought, the War for Southern Independence was fought over taxation without representation. The North was constantly trying to raise taxes on Southerners through high tariffs on imported goods in order to protect the inefficient big businesses in the North. These businesses could not compete with manufactured goods from England and France, with which the South traded cotton. The South did not have factories and had to import most finished products.

England and France could produce and ship products across the Atlantic cheaper than the products of the Northern manufacturers. The Morrill Tariff was passed, more than doubling the import tax from 20 percent to 47 percent. This tax served to bankrupt many Southerners. Though the South represented only about 30 percent of the population, it paid 80 percent of the tariffs collected. Oppressive taxes, denial of states' rights to govern themselves and an unrepresentative federal government pushed the Southern states to withdraw from the Union.

The truth about the Confederate flag is that it had nothing to do with slaves or racism. The ships that brought the slaves over were sailed under the Stars and Stripes of the U.S. No Southern ship ever brought slaves into this country. One of those so-called racist Southern soldiers, who was captured and asked why he was fighting, said, "Because you're down here."

Jack G. Bradshaw, Knoxville

Posted by JohnQC 2015-07-13 09:09|| 2015-07-13 09:09|| Front Page Top

#6 A letter to the editor appeared in the local newspaper this a.m. It is as follows:
Flag was not about racism
[posted by JohnQC]

Many historians believe that, unlike the Southern political elite, Confederate enlisted soldiers cared little about the preservation of slavery but fought vigilantly against what they saw as oppression by the Northern government.

It is my own contention that if a flag deserves to be removed, it is the South Carolina State flag (that represents the state government/legislature), not the Confederate flag of the common people that deserves to be taken down.

My own thoughts on the subject:

Flag of the Common People

Posted by junkiron 2015-07-13 12:07|| 2015-07-13 12:07|| Front Page Top

#7 It doesn't matter what this flag stood/stands for. What matters (speaking as an outside observer) is that its removal stands for now.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-07-13 13:59|| 2015-07-13 13:59|| Front Page Top

#8 Was the caller a recent college grad who didnt get a trigger warning? /guffaw

Posted by OldSpook 2015-07-13 14:57|| 2015-07-13 14:57|| Front Page Top

#9 Owning the flag is not currently illegal and therefore the person that called 911 called in a false report. The dispatcher should have told them as such and threatened to have them arrested if they continued attempting to infringe on the seller's 1st amendment rights in such a way.

Punch back twice as hard.

Posted by rjschwarz 2015-07-13 15:13|| 2015-07-13 15:13|| Front Page Top

#10 OS, ya can't say trigger warning any more. The word trigger might traumatized some delicate flower'S psyche. Ditto for bullet points.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2015-07-13 15:27|| 2015-07-13 15:27|| Front Page Top

#11 I rifled through my drawers just the other day.

Posted by JHH 2015-07-13 16:28|| 2015-07-13 16:28|| Front Page Top

#12 Is that a rifle in your drawers, or are you just looking for something?

Sounds like the cheap replica symbol of hate is the person who called 911.

Shaking and vomiting.
Turned in a citizen for the crime of not being the right kind of citizen.
Sounds like snowflake didn't learn a damn thing from grandma.

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-07-13 19:32|| 2015-07-13 19:32|| Front Page Top

#13 The seller should have called the police on the offended and rightly point out how they seem to be having some kind of pyschotic episode and you feel they are a danger to themself. Then they can ride the padded bus to their new home.

Posted by Silentbrick 2015-07-13 21:08|| 2015-07-13 21:08|| Front Page Top

#14 After the Charleston attack there's been negative feedback for the ideology, traditions and symbols associated with the attacker and his motives.

After attacks motivated by islamic theocratic totalitarianism there has been positive feedback for the ideology, traditions and symbols associated with the attackers and their motives.

Contemporary mainstream Islam is no less odious than the philosophy of governance that informed the CSA. Extremist Islam (e.g.Iran, Taliban) is obviously far worse.

Why is there this stark difference in the responses?

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2015-07-13 21:09|| 2015-07-13 21:09|| Front Page Top

#15 ...because the hatemongers focus on the US and its history (re:success). Reason for both parties to share the same goal of destruction.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-07-13 21:35|| 2015-07-13 21:35|| Front Page Top

#16 Because unlike civilized American southerners, a Jihadi will actually seek you out and kill you for disrespect , and he decides what is disrespectful. So the media attacks the safe targets. Ever wonder about the lack of coverage of cartels violence in Mexico. Duh!!!!!!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2015-07-13 23:57|| 2015-07-13 23:57|| Front Page Top

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