Mike Huckabee : Confederate Fundamentalist

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Huckabee has in recent days been gleefully proposing a violent response to any "outsider" who might suggest that it is time to haul down the flag of treason that was flown by southern extremists who went to war against the United States in order to preserve the practice of human bondage.

Again and again on the campaign trail in South Carolina, the state that led the south into rebellion against the Union, Huckabee has gone out of his way to discuss and defend the "right" of southerners to fly the Confederate flag in official settings.

"You don't like people from outside the state coming in and telling you what to do with your flag," the former governor of Arkansas told a crowd in Myrtle Beach, where he was campaigning in advance of the state's Republican primary on Saturday. "In fact, if somebody came to Arkansas and told us what to do with our flag, we'd tell them what to do with the pole, that's what we'd do."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20080118...nation/45272173

[one...two...tree 2,762]

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apparently freedom of speech does not apply with that flag - according to some

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apparently freedom of speech does not apply with that flag - according to some

Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from the consequences of your speech.

The consequence of his speech will be that he will lose a national election. This country isn't full of lily white southern voters, you know. The Confederate Flag is a symbol of racism, of making commodities to own and trade, of black people. It is sickening how people can respect that or even display it.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Given that race is such a tricky and sensitive issue in this country, it probably isn't very responsible to lend support to a symbol that is socially divisive; and certainly not for a political candidate.

IMO - it should be allowed to die out, and people should be as ashamed of the Confederate flag and what it stood for as are ashamed of Swastika, or indeed the Hammer and Sickle.

People should have better judgement.

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This is from the man who believes women should submit to their husbands and gays = beastiality.

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apparently freedom of speech does not apply with that flag - according to some

Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from the consequences of your speech.

The consequence of his speech will be that he will lose a national election. This country isn't full of lily white southern voters, you know. The Confederate Flag is a symbol of racism, of making commodities to own and trade, of black people. It is sickening how people can respect that or even display it.

that may be what the flag means to you. technically it's the symbol of the confederate states.

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apparently freedom of speech does not apply with that flag - according to some

Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from the consequences of your speech.

The consequence of his speech will be that he will lose a national election. This country isn't full of lily white southern voters, you know. The Confederate Flag is a symbol of racism, of making commodities to own and trade, of black people. It is sickening how people can respect that or even display it.

that may be what the flag means to you. technically it's the symbol of the confederate states.

and why did they feel the need to form the confederate states?

hint: lincoln was elected and they were skeered they'd have to give up their negroes.

[Ban Hammer 13,364]

apparently freedom of speech does not apply with that flag - according to some

Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from the consequences of your speech.

The consequence of his speech will be that he will lose a national election. This country isn't full of lily white southern voters, you know. The Confederate Flag is a symbol of racism, of making commodities to own and trade, of black people. It is sickening how people can respect that or even display it.

that may be what the flag means to you. technically it's the symbol of the confederate states.

and why did they feel the need to form the confederate states?

hint: lincoln was elected and they were skeered they'd have to give up their negroes.

that became the predominant issue after the war started. it's not what caused those states to leave the union.

Republicans opposed the expansion of slavery into territories owned by the United States, and their victory in the presidential election of 1860 resulted in seven Southern states declaring their secession from the Union even before Lincoln took office.

Edited January 18, 2008 by charlesandnessa

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apparently freedom of speech does not apply with that flag - according to some

Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from the consequences of your speech.

The consequence of his speech will be that he will lose a national election. This country isn't full of lily white southern voters, you know. The Confederate Flag is a symbol of racism, of making commodities to own and trade, of black people. It is sickening how people can respect that or even display it.

that may be what the flag means to you. technically it's the symbol of the confederate states.

Technically, a swastika is an auspicious symbol from Sanskrit cultures.

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Technically, a swastika is an auspicious symbol from Sanskrit cultures.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Technically, a swastika is an auspicious symbol from Sanskrit cultures.

True, but not in the western world.

The Swastika and Sauvastika is still used in Eastern cultures and religions, but it has a different cultural meaning for them than it does for us.

Technically, a swastika is an auspicious symbol from Sanskrit cultures.

Buxh?

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To me, both a sign of racism and bigotry. Period!

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Thanks Mr. Technical Number 6. I'm just saying you can't dismiss the implications a symbol has just because it hasn't always been seen that way.

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Thanks Mr. Technical Number 6. I'm just saying you can't dismiss the implications a symbol has just because it hasn't always been seen that way.

Well as always context defines. A guy wearing a Swastika T-Shirt in South Carolina probably isn't a buddhist.