Very clear to me, but it is like a sail full of holes. Your throwing your wind at a void. I know a man that uses the "n" word on a daily basis while watching the news, but will physically fight you if you dare say that he is Predudice. I try to take it all in stride. I am the bad guy if I suggest an alternative to words like that.

I am not the poster to whom your post refers, but I am going to venture back into this conversation just to say the following -

This may be hard for some on here to believe, but there are many of us who could care less what any specific politician thinks or believes whether it be from the opposing party or our own. We can think for ourselves and do not feel obligated to tow a party line. Whether I, for example, like Romney or not (and I do actually), he does not necessarily speak for me. I have not even looked up what others have said about this topic because it really doesn't matter. I can formulate an opinion based on my own thoughts and understanding - I don't need to be told how to think.

Oh I thought it was the flag of the South which happened to be slave holding.

As for the ignorent comment THAT is ignorant!

Well, thank you all for your input. I personally feel the flag could go away, but there have been several eye opening opinions to keep it. Great thread and mostly civil.

Excellent post and also excellent commentsry on the blemished and stained "personal regards".

Learn how to spell "ignorant" and then crawl back into your curmudgeon troll hole.

Baited especially for U!
Curmudgeon troll? Where is the bite me emoticon?

Baited especially for me?

How much more could one be a self-identified troll?

Now, get back down your troll hole and stay there.

Do The Villages Tea Party meeting start each meeting off with a salute to the Confederate flag and a cross burning in an ash tray?

Dear Guest: Your response was a personal attack on me because I chose to defend First Amendment rights explaining that by its nature someone will surely be offended. My response wasn't about me. This issue is bigger than all of us because it is about us or more specifically about free America. The ACLU is anything but civil and they operate to undermine American freedoms to a point of insanity. You speak to the judge's conduct but then conclude that he was removed. Wasn't this a good outcome?

Why is it people such as yourselves only see America in a negative light as racial charged, aggressors, colonialist?

People risk their lives to reach our borders and rightly so and AGAIN I SAY WHILE WE ARE NOT PERFECT WE ARE THE BEST THAT THE WORLD HAS TO OFFER. some folks just do not understand the limits of nature and human nature. And I say again the Confederate flag means different things to different people and whether it flies over South Carolina or not it has no material sway on how those residents interact. The debate is a political one and a silly one at that, perhaps dangerous because some politicians are using it to garner black votes and the sharptonites are using it to justify their existence. You may choose to bite on that bait but I cannot and will not, my focus is always on what are our national priorities.

Personal Best Regards:

This thread goes in the "pretend" ignore file......new lows of trash talk accomplished....congratulations....bye.

You nailed it with the lines highlighted above! As mentioned previously, how ridiculous to have such commotion to the point of a national debate over a flag. The bottom line is that it is what it is - a flag - a thing! It cannot control someone's emotions or make someone commit an act. Unless we move on to more important issues and deal with the real sources of so many of these acts, which I call evil, our country is doomed to the likes of and the confusion of Babel.

A flag is just a thing? Please tell me what YOUR response would be if your next door neighbor flew a large Nazi swastika on his flagpole? 99.9 percent of residents would have their emotions controoled by this flag flying next to them and some would feel compelled to commit the act of taking it down.

The US flag also is not just a thing. It definitely controls our emotions. If we see someone defacing it, some people commit the act of assault and rightfully so, in my viewpoint.

No, you are incorrect in this post. Many people compare the history of the confederate battle flag with the Nazi flag. Neither should be allowed to fly. Put the piece of Southern history in a museum.

Nikki Haley, Lindsey Graham Will Call for Removal of Confederate Flag, Sources Say - NBC News


South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley and Senators Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott are calling for the SC legislature to vote to remove the confederate flag when they meet on Tuesday (tomorrow). If this vote passes, it would come down before the body of the state senator who died last Wednesday lies in state in the state house.

In a separate article, SC businesses, such as Boeing, BMW and others, are also calling for this flag to come down.

Haley will be having a press briefing at 4:00pm today (Monday) to make this announcement. Good for her, now hopefully the legislature will do the right thing.