Virginia city limits Confederate flag-flying

[The Northerner]

LEXINGTON, Va. (AP) — A rural Virginia city where Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson are buried on Thursday limited the flying of the Confederate flag on poles on several downtown streets.

After 2 1/2 hours of heated debate, the Lexington City Council voted 4-1 to allow only the Virginia, U.S. and city flags to be displayed. Personal displays of the Confederate flag are not affected.

About 100 people led by the Sons of Confederate Veterans rallied before the vote and then showed up in force to speak to city council to dissuade them from enacting the ordinance. Other residents complained that the flag is a divisive symbol of the South's history of slavery and shouldn't be endorsed by the city.

Afterward the group said they would legally challenge the ban in the city of 7,000.

"I am a firm believer in the freedom to express our individual rights, which include flying the flag that we decide to fly," said Philip Way, a Civil War re-enactor who turned out for the late-summer rally clad in a Confederate wool uniform. "That's freedom to me."

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[Starry Messenger]

1. But those rights are granted under a different flag.

:crazy:

[Hugabear]

2. What "rights" are being taken away?

"Personal displays of the Confederate flag are not affected."

This only applies to public displays. The Confederate flag has absolutely no place on a public flag pole. If you want to fly it on your own property, go ahead.

[Starry Messenger]

4. I know.

There's a lot of wrong there. I had to pick one.

[EFerrari]

3. Mom never taught him about sharing. lol

[Kennah]

5. Wow! I'm impressed.

The four reasonable City Councilmembers decided after 2.5 hours that the one nutjob in their midst wasn't going to budge--so just take the damned vote. Very practical.

[Odin2005]

6. It's the flag of treason and slavery and should be banned as such.

The Germans ban using the Swastika for the same reason.

[FSogol]

7. "South Postpones Rising Again For Yet Another Year"

One of my favorite The Onion articles:

HUNTSVILLE, AL–For the 135th straight year since Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, representatives for the South announced Monday that the region has postponed plans to rise again.

"Make no mistake, the South shall rise again," said Knox Pritchard, president of the Huntsville-based Alliance Of Confederate States. "But we're just not quite ready to do it now. Hopefully, we'll be able to rise again real soon, maybe even in 2001."

Pritchard's fellow Southerners shared his confidence.

"Yes, sir. The South will rise again, and when it does, I'll be right up front waving the Stars and Bars," said Dock Mullins of Decatur, GA. "But first, I gotta get my truck fixed and get that rusty old stove out of my yard."

Whole story at:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/south-postpones-rising-again-for-yet-another-year,377/

[sofa king]

8. Flags in Lexington.

A week or two ago, a few of the boys secretly
made and hoisted upon top of College
a Disunion Flag, bearing a single red star and
the word Disunion. But Dr. Junkin very
soon had it taken down and there has
been nothing said about disunion since.

Andrew Brooks, 1861

"Upon top of College" was the statue of George Washington, and the flag was flown from the sword at his side. Dr. Junkin was the President of Washington College, a unionist, and also a father-in-law of the future Stonewall Jackson. He resigned at the outset of hostilities and the position of President would remain vacant until it was offered to Robert E. Lee in 1865, after the war was over.

Four brothers of the Brooks family attended Washington College; all of them enlisted in the Confederate army. Within four years, three of them would be dead.

[eShirl]

9. You don't see descendents of British Loyalists demanding the Union Jack be flown...

just sayin'