Doug Brannon SC Representative (R) introducing bill to take down confederate flag
Out of respect for his friend who died.
He sounded really broken up and said what a fantastic human being Clementa Pinckney was.
It's a totally appropriate thing to do, and I hope SC shows its better self by recognizing it.
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And trust me: even if the post-Civil War era ban on the display of Confederate insignia had never been allowed to lapse, these Deep South good ole boy judges and governors would make sure that doing so was rarely, if ever, punished (on the contrary; don't be too shocked if this little monster's family became rich overnight as their "reward"
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I lived in Mississippi for a number of years, and can tell you that some folks down there have a funny way of deciding which federal laws do - or do not - apply. Moreover, Obama's election to the presidency made them all the more motivated to act as a law unto themselves.
They still love all that Federal money though: in most Deep South states Uncle Sam covers 40% or more of their state budgets.
It scares the hell out of me when progressives want to ban something that's offensive, what happens when the R's take the WH and decide this flag is offensive?
This banning shit could fast get out of hand.
That flag makes me think of so many GOOD things that have happened lately. 
I'm sure that there's some people in bed with the government, but that's produced no offspring yet.
Or do you believe, like Mitt, that corporations(and governments) are people too, my friend.
It is like having a graphic child rape flag. Or wife beating flag.
It represents terrible abuse and degradation of human life.
What needs to happen to it is 5 gallons of napalm and a sniper
to ignite it, or maybe a Mark 2 pineapple fragmentation
grenade. At the least a 357 magnum loaded with blanks duck taped to a flare. All of these have been used festively on Burn Notice.
Sam Axe is needed here. Where is a shoulder held missile when we need one?
This is therapeutic fantasy.
I don't understand why someone at night doesn't do a Yippee action as in the 60's. It probably has better security than the dear human beings that were sacrificed for it.
As to the First Amendment, as my old law prof once said: "The 1st Amendment and Constitution is what the Supreme Court says it is."
And Bush fixed that one too. We are locked in the Bush Cheney night mare and only beginning to head toward any real change.
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It is like having a graphic child rape flag. Or wife beating flag.
It represents terrible abuse and degradation of human life.
What needs to happen to it is 5 gallons of napalm and a sniper
to ignite it, or maybe a Mark 2 pineapple fragmentation
grenade. At the least a 357 magnum loaded with blanks duck taped to a flare. All of these have been used festively on Burn Notice.
Sam Axe is needed here. Where is a shoulder held missile when we need one? This is thereputic fantasy. 
I don't understand why someone at night doesn't do a Yippee action as in the 60's. It probably has better security than the dear human beings that were sacrificed for it.
As to the First Amendment, as my old law prof once said: "The 1st Amendment and Constitution is what the Supreme Court says it is."
And Bush fixed that one too. We are locked in the Bush Cheney night mare and only beginning to head toward any real change.
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Thanks for setting me straight.
Hmmm, why would that be? You seem to know those talking points a little to well. 
That ought to make a few heads do this,
in a fetid swamp of hate and murder?
