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Bryan, this is just like the discussion that was on the news and views board about the manner of burial of those men of the 54th Mass. and their officers killed at Fort Wagner. What was this motel owners intent?

While the display of the CBF for racist purposes is distasteful, And it does deserve to be preserved as an honoriam to the soldiers that fought under its folds, it is also the ultimate symbol of protest against the United States Government that would have nothing to do with President elect Obama, or racism. We must bare in mind that the "racism" accuzation is being leveled by the newspapers, probably because contriversial issues will sell newspapers.

The comment that he raised the CBF in protest to the "Election of Barack Obama" can as easily be interpreted that he is protecting the movement of this countries government more and more toward socialism and outright communism than the republic that we have been under. But we do not because we are "Conditioned" and encouraged to think that it is for racist pruposes. This change of Government direction was the same cause as the original American Civil War was fought over. The fear of growing federal government interference in the lifestyles of the people. What more appropriate symbol is there to display than the CBF?

The Confederate Battle Flag, more than even repersenting the Valor of the Confederate soldier, repersents the ultimate right of a free people to disagree with their government as granted by the individual rights enumerated in the 2nd Amendment. That Ultimate right, as distatsteful as it was, was exercise under the very folds of that same Confederate Battle Flag. Today it says, at least to me, we went to war once in our history over Government intervention in the lives of it people, it could happen again. That is the ultimate warning to our government.

Should the CBF be religated only to Cemeteries and Memorial Services for Confederate Veterans? Is it only to be a dead Symbol?

It certainly has been already banned from our National Military Parks and History book. To me the CBF is a legitimate living symbol of a time when free men were not afraid to exercise the ultimate protest and should not be automatically associated with racism. The easist way to destroy history is to change the meanings of our symbols from something honorable to something dishonorable. And it is we who are responcible for that by accepting those changes in our own minds.

So he is flying the CBF. So What?

As a free American he has as much right to freedom of speach under the first Amendment as any other American, even as much as burning the American Flag in protest, even if it is for racist purposes. But it is us, who accept the "Thought Police", who are at fault, if we assume that he is flying it for that purpose. Now don't assume that I am defending racism with my comments either, I am not. But, why should I even have to make that qualifer statement if people actually have studied history?

And for those who read this and don't get my point, you probably never will.

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