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Re: Just when I keep on thinking that I'd have nothing else to rant about...
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Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:32:18 GMT
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You know, I never understood the Confederate flag's ability to still fly in
any official capacity.
I mean, race-issue aside, isn't it the symbol of a treason nation? A
rebellion that was put down? Why wasn't it outlawed at the end of the Civil
War? (Seriously, I'm curious about that last one).
-Evil Wayne
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys writes:
> Free country my heinie!
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/02/12/georgia.flag.ap/index.html
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> "State and national Republicans had worried that a flag referendum the same
> day as the presidential election could spark a huge turnout by blacks and
> moderate whites and potentially affect the fortunes of GOP candidates,
> including President Bush."
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> Don't you *want* your voters to vote? Or are republicans openly saying that
> they are a bunch of racist bigots who don't want black people to vote? Are
> they also forgetting that, if this ref. happens during the presidential
> vote, that the republicans of the state will have a huge turnout to vote *in
> favour* of that racist-symbol, the confederate flag. Oops, I guess I just
> gave away my position on the matter.
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> Wow. Politics. Whoda thunk?
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> Dave K
> -just getting more and more in awe of the world in which he lives
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