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No shock there - they've always been afraid of controversy.
Ebay search for 'swastika'
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from...stika&_sacat=0
Lots of items and at least on the first page none relating to Hinduism.
I guess not all controversy is equal.
"I am a bird"
Meanwhile, Amazon can't sell them quickly enough. 2300% uptick since this hysteria started.
I bought a morale patch as well.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...-2300-percent/
Amazon will probably stop selling them too.
This will just keep growing and growing.
Insanity.
Prohibition always backfires. Even when it is society, not government doing it. Its like Graffiti in bathrooms, and on trains. People paint and display forbidden symbols because they can, it makes guys feel macho. This further confuses the meaning of some things.
'We endorse the idea of voluntarism; self-responsibility: Family, friends, and churches to solve problems, rather than saying that some monolithic government is going to make you take care of yourself and be a better person. It's a preposterous notion: It never worked, it never will. The government can't make you a better person; it can't make you follow good habits.' - Ron Paul 1988
Awareness is the Root of Liberation Revolution is Action upon Revelation
'Resistance and Disobedience in Economic Activity is the Most Moral Human Action Possible' - SEK3
Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo.
...the familiar ritual of institutional self-absolution...
...for protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment...
I wonder what Overstock will do? I'm praying that guy holds out.
And Amazon backs down. Fascism is chic in 'Murica these days.
Amazon has caved, and now Valley Forge Flag has too.
This hysteria is really retarded, though I take solace in the fact no one will care two weeks now, same with the Indiana gay law earlier this year. Americans' gnat-like attention spans are at least good for something.Originally Posted by Reuters
Dang!
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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Amazon is still selling all sorts of offensive crap, including Che t-shirts, communist flags, etc.
I remember seeing one of these flags in a van's back window, it had no interior cargo section, was an open one, passing by me back end of the decade. I thought to myself wasn't that some kind of historical hateful flag. Ofcourse at the time, I wasn't to familiar with the history.
It's a nice colored/coloured flag.
One thing is people dying, but a group because of they're skin is another.
Communism was zealous idea for control over the residents of a country.
Still plenty of General Lee toys on Amazon.
There are no crimes against people.
There are only crimes against the state.
And the state will never, ever choose to hold accountable its agents, because a thing can not commit a crime against itself.
'We endorse the idea of voluntarism; self-responsibility: Family, friends, and churches to solve problems, rather than saying that some monolithic government is going to make you take care of yourself and be a better person. It's a preposterous notion: It never worked, it never will. The government can't make you a better person; it can't make you follow good habits.' - Ron Paul 1988
Awareness is the Root of Liberation Revolution is Action upon Revelation
'Resistance and Disobedience in Economic Activity is the Most Moral Human Action Possible' - SEK3
Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo.
...the familiar ritual of institutional self-absolution...
...for protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment...
WTH is this?
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."
This may very well be the watershed moment. "Anti-hate" is what Stars and Stripes represents to these peanut butter brained doofuses, and AME is the epitome of false Christianity "God loves you, you poor things" crap. I watched their Sunday Service. Not a word about repenting or obeying God's law.
Everything wrong with Christianity is what I got from watching that service. It is precisely the kind of Christianity that Nietzsche railed against in the Antichrist.
And the way our "Conservatives" have capitulated into this false humility "I'm so sorry for being racist" makes me just as angry at them.
When a trumpet sounds in a city, do not the people tremble?
When disaster comes to a city, has not the Lord caused it? Amos 3:6
Who will financilly benefit from this, probably websites of guys like this:
Lou Krasky/AP
06.23.155:15 AM ET
Republican Who Kept Confederate Flag Flying Is a Rebel Sympathizer
McConnell, a Republican, has had long love affair with the Confederacy. He’s a long-time member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans who dresses up in a rebel uniform and fires a brass cannon at Civil War reenactments. In real life, McConnell ran a thriving Confederate-themed gift shop and mail-order business.
As a legislator, McConnell secured millions from the state budget to preserve the H.L Hunley, a submarine used by the Confederacy and the first submarine to sink an enemy ship.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...mpathizer.html
Former state Sen. Glenn McConnell, R-Charleston, listens to Gov. Nikki Haley after he was sworn-in as the lieutenant governor in 2012.
And they sell this too and probably will continue to sell:
As does ebay:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/President-Ba...-/350524752170
How can these companies make money by tarnishing image of first African-American POTUS in history.
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http://www.scv.org/curriculum/part8.htm
Slavery was a legal institution in this country for over 200 years. Africans were brought here by northern slave traders to be used in northern industry, long before the antebellum South or the Confederacy ever existed. The first American colony to legalize slavery was Massachusetts in 1641, only 17 years after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. "The slave trade became very profitable to the shipping colonies and Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New Hampshire had many ships in the triangular trade," (72). "The moral argument against slavery arose early in the New England shipping colonies but it could not withstand the profits of the trade and soon died out." (73).
Thomas Jefferson condemned the slave trade in the original draft of the Declaration of Independence, but the New England slave traders lobbied to have the clause stricken. In a short eleven year period form 1755 to 1766, no fewer than 23,000 slaves landed in Massachusetts. By 1787, Rhode Island had taken first place in the slave trade to be unseated later by New York. Before long, millions of slaves would be brought to America by way of 'northern' slave ships. After all, there were no Southern slave ships involved in the triangular slave, it was simply too cruel.
William P. Cheshire, the senior editorial columnist for the Arizona Republic recently noted, the New England Yankee who brought slaves to America, "were interested in getting money, not in helping their cargo make a fresh start in the New World." He adds that northern slave ownership "isn't widely known - American textbooks tend to be printed in Boston, not Atlanta - but early New Englanders not only sold blacks to Southern planters but also kept slaves for themselves as well as enslaving the local Indian population," (74).
Slavery did not appear in the deep South until northern settlers began to migrate South, bringing with them their slaves. It was soon discovered that while slaves were not suited to the harsh climate and working conditions of the north, they were ideal sources of cheap labor for the newly flourishing economy of the agricultural South. Of the 9.5 million slaves brought to the Western Hemisphere from 1500 - 1870, less than 6% were brought to the United States. This means that our Hispanic, British and French neighbors to the south owned over 94% of the slaves brought to the New World. In the South, less than 7% of the total population ever owned a slave. In other words, over 93% of Southerners did not own any slaves, (75).
Attempts to outlaw the slave trade in the north only increased the profits of smuggling. In 1858, only two years prior to the birth of the Confederacy, Stephen Douglas noted that over 15,000 slaves had been smuggled into New York alone, with over 85 vessels sailing from New York in 1859 to smuggle even more slaves. Perhaps it was their own guilt that drove the abolitionists of the day to point an accusing finger at the South, while closing their eyes to the slavery and the slave trade taking place in their own back yards.
For more than 200 years, northern slave traders mad enormous profits that furnished the capitol for future investments into mainstream industries. Who is more responsible for slavery in America, the Southern plantation owner who fed and clothed his slaves, or the New England "Yankee" slave trader who brought the slaves here in the first place?
From 1641, when Massachusetts first legalized slavery, until 1865, when the Confederate struggle for independence ended, slavery was a legal institution in America that lasted over 224 years. The Confederate battle flag flew for 4 of those 224 years, but the U.S. flag and its colonial predecessors flew over legalized slavery for ALL of those 224 years. It was the U.S. flag that the slave first saw, and it was the U.S. flag that flew on the mast of New England slaves ships as they brought their human cargo to this country. It is clear, that those who attack the Confederate flag as a reminder of slavery are overlooking the most guilty and hateful of all reminders of American slavery, the U.S. flag.
Bibliography:
72. The Concise Dictionary of American History, (Scribner & Sons), p.876
73. Ibid
74. The Arizona Republic, June 11, 1995
75. Rober William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman, Time on the Cross - The Economics of American Negro Slavery (New York: Norton, 1974), p.14
This is one of the most commonly used arguments against Confederate symbolism and on of the easiest to prove false. Everyone knows that the South (and the North) had slavery until 1865. The north had slavery at least until 1866, due to some holdouts like Union General Ulysses S. Grant who refused to give up his slaves until the passage of the 13th Amendment.
Prior to 1866, slavery was completely legal. The Supreme Court had ruled favorably on the legality and constitutionality of slavery. Presidents Buchanan and Lincoln both promised many times, that they would not interfere with the practice of slavery. New laws were recently put on the books protecting slave owners from loss of slave property due to theft or runaways. Add to that, the fact that the Confederate states constituted the fifth wealthiest region in the world. The slave owning states had all of these things and more. So why on earth would Southern states secede from the United States? Surely, no one believes that the South would have left the security of the Union and gone to fight a war for something they already had! Countries do not fight wars for the things they have, they fight wars to obtain the things they do not have.
To emphasize how safe the institution of slavery was, let's look at what it would have taken to eliminate it. Since slavery was enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, it would require a constitutional amendment and that is very difficult to achieve. Two-thirds of the House and Senate must agree to the amendment and then three-fourths of all the states must vote to ratify the amendment before it can become part of the U.S. Constitution. This simply would never have happened as long as the Southern states stayed in the Union! That's right, with the South in the Union, the northern and Southern slave states would have voted down any attempt to amend the Constitution, thereby guaranteeing that the institution of slavery could continue almost indefinitely. So you see, it is quite easy to prove that the South did not secede and fight a war to maintain slavery, an institution they already possessed.
What the South did not have was financial freedom. Southerners were slaves to the industrial demands of the north, just as blacks were slaves to the agricultural demands of the South. Growth potential was severely limited in the South, so long as the north continued to levy heavy tariffs on things that Southerners needed to purchase and heavy taxes on those things that Southerners produced. In the words of South Carolina senator John C. Calhoun in 1850, "The north has adopted a system of revenue and disbursements, in which an undue proportion of the burden of taxation has been imposed on the South, and an undue proportion of its proceeds appropriated to the north ... The South as the great exporting portion of the Union has, in reality, paid vastly more than her due proportion of the revenue,"(76). Unfair taxation drove Americans to war with Britain in 1775 and against each other in 1861. History is quite clear on this point.
Bibliography:
76. John C. Calhoun, "Speech on the Slavery Question," March 4, 1850 in Edwin Rozweus., The Causes of the Civil War (Boston 1961), p. 4
Anyone want to start a $#@! storm? Send out a tweet demanding these other confederate battle flags are banned:
3rd Kentucky Mounted Infantry: This was another of the Christian Confederate flag themes. A blue field with a red Roman cross, with white five point stars placed in the cross.
"Missouri" Battle Flag, Trans-Mississippi Department: This flag was found almost exclusively with Missouri regiments in the Department, and that is why it is often called the "Missouri" Battle Flag. The flag was blue bordered with red with a white Roman cross near the hoist of the flag.
General Dabney Maury's Headquarters Flag. This flag was used for a time by General Maury, Department of the Gulf, at his headquarters in Mobile, AL from around 1863- the capture of the city in late in the war. Another example of the Christian theme and principles emulated by the Confederate Armies.
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I know a lot of "Native Americans" who feel the American Flag represents hatred, racism, oppression, and genocide... I wonder if these businesses will refuse to sell the American flag?
- ML
Target and Etsy joined the ban wagon.
VA apparently has 1,677 license plates with the flag on it for sons of confederate soldiers. They are trying to ban that license plate.
they want to recall and re-issue these plates.
OH GOD! they want to take down statues, rename schools and highways. This is totally FUBAR!
-t
Last edited by tangent4ronpaul; 06-23-2015 at 05:11 PM.
lol who said this was a distraction for the TPP? because he was spot on. This $#@! has just become stupid.
A savage barbaric tribal society where thugs parade the streets and illegally assault and murder innocent civilians, yeah that is the alternative to having police. Oh wait, that is the police
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
- Edward R. Murrow
...I think we have moral obligations to disobey unjust laws, because non-cooperation with evil is as much as a moral obligation as cooperation with good. - MLK Jr.
How to trigger a liberal: "I didn't get vaccinated."
Of course it is. "I will erase you from the histories!", sayeth Xerces.
And what's the plan, really? #whitesilenceisviolence is a popular hastag during all this.
Not "silence". "WHITE" silence.
Speak up or you are racist. In other words, "come clean" (and I've seen twitter posts literally saying that) or your silence tells us you are racist.
So the plan is to badger an ethnic group of people until they all admit the horrible racism that's "engrained in our DNA" to use Obama's words.
So the Nazi mentality has been flipped. Now blacks our morally superior to white people. And of course the blacks being filled with pride and victimhood and the white liberal national socialists who agree do not even see the Nazi mentality they are embodying.
God just needs to destroy this country already. It's lost.
"It's time to push back!" they are saying. Out of one side of their mouth they talk of love and Christ (which I won't even rebuke as the idea that true Christianity is represented by this movement is preposterous) and out of the other side they talk of "pushing back" and labeling people and "weeding them out".
No solutions. Just join us in hating those that don't join us. Blind rage and self-worship.
When a trumpet sounds in a city, do not the people tremble?
When disaster comes to a city, has not the Lord caused it? Amos 3:6
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