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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Now see, we can agree on that <g>  I am sooooo tired of the rewriting of 
history to use as a salve to some folks' conscious.

BTW, some of us liberals happen to have a better grounding in history than 
others and even better grounding than most Conservatives <g>

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj AT intrex.net>


> Of course it is not a federal issue but folks like Biden made it a 
> campaign issue saying that it "should be taken
> elsewhere". I just thought that was rather disingenuous. I thought I heard 
> McCain say that it _was not_ a federal issue
> and would not bring it up, i.e. leave it to South Carolinians to decide. I 
> think it would be a nice gesture to the
> decent, nonracist, traditional people in the south with roots in the 
> Confederacy to leave it flying, in defiance of the
> ultra radical extremist politically correct left leaning liberal loonz who 
> would insist that the Rebel flag is a symbol
> of slavery, which in one obvious sense it is and in another is completely 
> not. Honor history and leave it flying as a
> reminder of the fact that slavery actually heppened in the USA and in 
> honor of the people who took pride in their
> homeland and not in the disgrace that was the slavery that happened there. 
> The northern states can share equal blame
> with the southern states for the slavery era. It was absolutely 
> unbelievable that it was ever allowed to happen as the
> same is true of the abuse of the Irish during the potato famine, and the 
> invasion of Tibet by the Chinese, Pol Pot's
> regime, Nazi Germany, genocide in Russia, the Spanish Civil War, the war 
> in Central and South America in the latter half
> ot the last century and on and on.
>
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