House drops Confederate Flag ban for veterans cemeteries

[struggle4progress]

By MATTHEW NUSSBAUM 06/23/16 11:45 AM EDT

A measure to bar confederate flags from cemeteries run by the Department of Veterans Affairs was removed from legislation passed by the House early Thursday.

The flag ban was added to the VA funding bill in May ... Speaker Paul Ryan .. has since limited what amendments can be offered on the floor.

...to reconcile the House funding measure with the Senate bill, the confederate flag provision was dropped ...

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/congress-confederate-flag-ban-224727

[BlueCaliDem]

1. It is a racist flag. Read what the creator of the "Confederate Flag" said in his own words:

This flag should be BANNED. But the Teapublican House, of course yielding to their racist constituencies, would lift the ban to have their racist and treasonous flag fly high.

[struggle4progress]

2. +

[niyad]

4. absolutely disgusting. and yet, the pukes in the house saw fit to say this is okay.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

3. If you die in your country's service and want a swastika on your grave, you should be allowed one.

Come to that, if you die not in your country's service and want a swastika on your grave, you should be allowed one.

[struggle4progress]

6. Has there been a recent groundswell of dead confederates demanding that

the banner of the Army of Northern Virginia flap over their graves?

[merrily]

8. Are we talking people who died fighting for the CSA and against the USA?

[underpants]

5. Recap: no vote on guns but they came back to work for that

Gotcha

[bluedigger]

7. I have no problem with this.

The one and only appropriate place for that flag to fly is marking the graves of those who died for it, lest we forget the peril our nation almost succumbed to once.

[merrily]

9. I have a problem. No one is going to forget the civil war for lack of a Confederate flag on a grave.

I can see saying the First Amendment prohibits all regulation. I can also see saying, no, this is a symbol of slavery, a crime against humanity (and at least arguably a symbol of treason). However, saying it can fly only to honor those who were willing to shoot at US troops and lay down their own lives for the sake of slavery makes no effing sense to me.