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Several years back, while on a family trip to Chicago, we visited the Camp Douglas Monument at Oak Woods Cemetery. It's the burial site of several thousand Confederate soldiers that died at the POW camp. We placed a few 3x5 inch South Carolina and Battle flags at the base.
I have an ancestor from South Carolina who was a Confederate soldier and a prisoner of war there in Illinois who had to walk home barefoot after the war ended.
Not much feet left by the time he got back to South Carolina.Officer Pete Malloy said:
now we are sanitizing old TV shows?Finally, they got that show, Dukes of Hazzard, off the air. The fact that it shows such hate and the attitude of horrible, horrible people makes me so mad.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to get back to watching some Hogan's Heroes reruns.
Maybe he shouldn't have fought against his country to protect the states rights to treat one race of people like cattle.
If they are wrong then I don't want to be right.
What prevented him from putting something on his feet? What prevented him from getting a ride?Todd Andrews said:
Our long national nightmare is over.Finally, they got that show, Dukes of Hazzard, off the air. The fact that it shows such hate and the attitude of horrible, horrible people makes me so mad.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to get back to watching some Hogan's Heroes reruns.
i'm sure the 6 black people who ever watched Dukes of Hazard feel better!Our long national nightmare is over.Finally, they got that show, Dukes of Hazzard, off the air. The fact that it shows such hate and the attitude of horrible, horrible people makes me so mad.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to get back to watching some Hogan's Heroes reruns.
Michael Brown had a loaded AR15?General Tso said:
Really? I thought someone burned 8 African American churches in the past week or so. What monuments have been torn down?
First they came for the cartoons...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8D93Awa434now we are sanitizing old TV shows?Finally, they got that show, Dukes of Hazzard, off the air. The fact that it shows such hate and the attitude of horrible, horrible people makes me so mad.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to get back to watching some Hogan's Heroes reruns.
And for that matter what history has been sanitized?
I was in Germany last year and didn't see a single statue commemorating Adolf Hitler's valiant leadership. It's so sad the way they've sanitized their history.
This is all true, and yet comparing the Duke brothers to a bust of Josef Stalin is an analogy that gives me pause.
I agree that they're not as bad as Stalin, but they've been in trouble with the law since the day they were born.
Lynyrd Skynyrd stopped using the confederate flag three years ago.
So, still none, right?
I imagine he did put something on his feet at some point. But the family story is he was released barefoot and then walked home. We dont know many of the details of the journey itself. And hitchhiking was tougher back then.
Is it treasonous for an American to leave the country and renounce his citizenship? If you believe it is, you, sir, don't believe in FREEDOM.
Actually mostly Florida for the original band, and the current members with ties to the original band. The rest of the current members are from all over, but none from Alabama.
If you're gonna pull me into your back and forth for no reason, the least you can do is make a moderately decent point to make it worth my while, instead of constructing a silly argument using your unfounded assumptions of what you think someone else would or wouldn't say about whether Michael Brown was acting like an idiot. Oh, and also completely ignoring the fact that HF wrote about his AR15-toting friend "it's funny - mostly because he's not dead." Just solid work all around.
Oh, sorry about that. I thought you were alluding to the broader theoretical construct that people acting like d-bags (ie – confederate flag waiving guy) are free to do so under the law, but not free from ensuing public ridicule and scorn. Your use of the word “EXAMPLE” kind of implied linkage to an overarching theme.
So if I piece together your logic, it looks something like this… You think it’s ok to “endlessly ridicule” someone who carries an AR15 in public to make a Constitutional point (and if we are talking Texas the act itself is probably legal – at least it’s debatable); and that it’s also ok to ridicule a person’s legal right to waive a confederate flag at an anti-flag rally; but you personally won’t ridicule Michael Brown for robbing a store, assaulting an old man, attacking a police man, grabbing his gun, and resisting arrest? I just find it comical that you would apply the phrase “what the #### did you think was going to happen, you idiot?” to the AR15 guy and not Michael Brown. You should probably just acknowledge that tdoss was right about the Liberals in here. You take hypocritical stances that vary from case to case depending upon the color of the person involved.
Not unfounded at all. It is founded based on my memory of his arguments in that thread and the consistent positions he has taken since then. I feel pretty comfortable going out on a limb and gambling that he didn't make any such negative comments about Michael Brown. Better yet, I invited him to go through that thread himself and let us know if he was being consistent there.If you're gonna pull me into your back and forth for no reason, the least you can do is make a moderately decent point to make it worth my while, instead of constructing an impossibly stupid argument using your unfounded assumptions of what you think someone else would or wouldn't say about whether Michael Brown was acting like an idiot. Oh, and also completely ignoring the fact that HF wrote about his AR15-toting friend "it's funny - mostly because he's not dead." Just solid work all around.
Oh, sorry about that. I thought you were alluding to the broader theoretical construct that people acting like d-bags (ie – confederate flag waiving guy) are free to do so under the law, but not free from ensuing public ridicule and scorn. Your use of the word “EXAMPLE” kind of implied linkage to an overarching theme.
So if I piece together your logic, it looks something like this… You think it’s ok to “endlessly ridicule” someone who carries an AR15 in public to make a Constitutional point (and if we are talking Texas the act itself is probably legal – at least it’s debatable); and that it’s also ok to ridicule a person’s legal right to waive a confederate flag at an anti-flag rally; but you personally won’t ridicule Michael Brown for robbing a store, assaulting an old man, attacking a police man, grabbing his gun, and resisting arrest? I just find it comical that you would apply the phrase “what the #### did you think was going to happen, you idiot?” to the AR15 guy and not Michael Brown. You should probably just acknowledge that tdoss was right about the Liberals in here. You take hypocritical stances that vary from case to case depending upon the color of the person involved.
The first two bolded statements I said, the third I didn't. And even if I had, it's not consistent with the first two. See how "it's okay" isn't the same thing as "I personally wouldn't"? That's a false equivocation.
Oh, sorry about that. I thought you were alluding to the broader theoretical construct that people acting like d-bags (ie – confederate flag waiving guy) are free to do so under the law, but not free from ensuing public ridicule and scorn. Your use of the word “EXAMPLE” kind of implied linkage to an overarching theme.
So if I piece together your logic, it looks something like this… You think it’s ok to “endlessly ridicule” someone who carries an AR15 in public to make a Constitutional point (and if we are talking Texas the act itself is probably legal – at least it’s debatable); and that it’s also ok to ridicule a person’s legal right to waive a confederate flag at an anti-flag rally; but you personally won’t ridicule Michael Brown for robbing a store, assaulting an old man, attacking a police man, grabbing his gun, and resisting arrest? I just find it comical that you would apply the phrase “what the #### did you think was going to happen, you idiot?” to the AR15 guy and not Michael Brown. You should probably just acknowledge that tdoss was right about the Liberals in here. You take hypocritical stances that vary from case to case depending upon the color of the person involved.
TREASONThis word imports a betraying, treachery, or breach of allegiance.
Of course. They were totally different actions. But they both behaved stupidly and irresponsibly, if that's what you're asking. I'm not sure why you think I ever said anything different. Hell, I barely talked about Brown at all in that thread. Most of my posts were about the behavior of the police both in terms of their response to the riots and the media coverage and their general attitude about accountability. Then later on I posted a bunch about discrimination in law enforcement generally. And as for HF, he literally said the reason it was funny to him was because his friend didn't die. If his friend had died do you think he'd make jokes about his stupid decisions? If not, there's no inconsistency there.Not unfounded at all. It is founded based on my memory of his arguments in that thread and the consistent positions he has taken since then. I feel pretty comfortable going out on a limb and gambling that he didn't make any such negative comments about Michael Brown. Better yet, I invited him to go through that thread himself and let us know if he was being consistent there.If you're gonna pull me into your back and forth for no reason, the least you can do is make a moderately decent point to make it worth my while, instead of constructing an impossibly stupid argument using your unfounded assumptions of what you think someone else would or wouldn't say about whether Michael Brown was acting like an idiot. Oh, and also completely ignoring the fact that HF wrote about his AR15-toting friend "it's funny - mostly because he's not dead." Just solid work all around.
Oh, sorry about that. I thought you were alluding to the broader theoretical construct that people acting like d-bags (ie – confederate flag waiving guy) are free to do so under the law, but not free from ensuing public ridicule and scorn. Your use of the word “EXAMPLE” kind of implied linkage to an overarching theme.
So if I piece together your logic, it looks something like this… You think it’s ok to “endlessly ridicule” someone who carries an AR15 in public to make a Constitutional point (and if we are talking Texas the act itself is probably legal – at least it’s debatable); and that it’s also ok to ridicule a person’s legal right to waive a confederate flag at an anti-flag rally; but you personally won’t ridicule Michael Brown for robbing a store, assaulting an old man, attacking a police man, grabbing his gun, and resisting arrest? I just find it comical that you would apply the phrase “what the #### did you think was going to happen, you idiot?” to the AR15 guy and not Michael Brown. You should probably just acknowledge that tdoss was right about the Liberals in here. You take hypocritical stances that vary from case to case depending upon the color of the person involved.
Other than Michael Brown being killed (justifiable so, according to both a State and Federal investigation), do you see any distinction between the way he invited trouble versus the way confederate flag waiving guy invited trouble?
The South had already seceded when hostilities began. The North could have left well enough alone. The war is on the North.
Fair enough Henry.
South Carolina attacked Fort Sumter and several (4 or 5 IIRC) states joined the confederacy after that
