Alabama councilman removes Confederate flags from graves

2009-04-24 15:20:06

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Macbeth: Banned; +2,444|5887

Mary Norman was shocked Thursday afternoon when Auburn Councilman Arthur L. Dowdell pulled up a Confederate flag placed on her great-grandfather’s grave and snapped it in half, she said.

Dowdell, who denies snapping the flag, said Thursday he was picking up his daughter from Auburn Junior High School near the cemetery when several people told him they “had a problem” with the flags.

He drove to the cemetery and started pulling up flags, he said.

“It’s offensive to me,” he said. “To me, it represents the Ku Klux Klan and racism.”

The United Daughters of the Confederacy placed the flags earlier this week, as they have done for 50 years, in preparation for a celebration Sunday of Confederate Memorial Day, Norman said.

Confederate Memorial Day will be celebrated as a state holiday in Alabama Monday.

“I really didn’t know exactly how to respond to him,” she said. “I happen to be a member of the Daughters of the Confederacy. I was very surprised, especially (as he is) a city councilman. I was amazed.”

http://www.dothaneagle.com/dea/news/loc … ves/69780/

Political Correctness still gets you even if you are dead.

2009-04-24 15:21:33

#2

Man With No Name: جندي; +148|5877|The Wild West

dude, youre from fucking jersey!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2009-04-24 15:29:54

#3

Macbeth: Banned; +2,444|5887

Man With No Name wrote:
dude, youre from fucking jersey!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What the hell does that have to do with anything?

2009-04-24 15:39:25

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Mekstizzle: WALKER; +3,611|6923|London, England

I never understood why all the southern american states are allowed to display all that confederate crap. You constantly deride the Germans and the Japanese whenever they do something that resembles or links to anything from their WW2 days, but you can't do the same to the people who do it in your own country from the Civil War days

Your civil war wasn't that long ago in a modern context

2009-04-24 15:40:45

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Man With No Name: جندي; +148|5877|The Wild West

Mekstizzle wrote:
I never understood why all the southern american states are allowed to display all that confederate crap. You constantly deride the Germans and the Japanese whenever they do something that resembles or links to anything from their WW2 days, but you can't do the same to the people who do it in your own country from the Civil War days

Your civil war wasn't that long ago in a modern context

totally agree.

spit on enemies of the republic, past and present.

2009-04-24 15:46:42

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Doctor Strangelove: Real Battlefield Veterinarian.; +1,758|6770

Man With No Name wrote:
Mekstizzle wrote:
I never understood why all the southern american states are allowed to display all that confederate crap. You constantly deride the Germans and the Japanese whenever they do something that resembles or links to anything from their WW2 days, but you can't do the same to the people who do it in your own country from the Civil War days

Your civil war wasn't that long ago in a modern context
totally agree.

spit on enemies of the republic, past and present.

Enemies of the Union will burn!

2009-04-24 15:48:34

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Man With No Name: جندي; +148|5877|The Wild West

DoctaStrangelove wrote:
Man With No Name wrote:
Mekstizzle wrote:
I never understood why all the southern american states are allowed to display all that confederate crap. You constantly deride the Germans and the Japanese whenever they do something that resembles or links to anything from their WW2 days, but you can't do the same to the people who do it in your own country from the Civil War days

Your civil war wasn't that long ago in a modern context
totally agree.

spit on enemies of the republic, past and present.
Enemies of the Union will burn!

BURN!!!!!!!!!!

2009-04-24 15:57:46

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Macbeth: Banned; +2,444|5887

So you all agree it's perfectly acceptable to remove flags from graves because you don't agree with what the flag stands for?

2009-04-24 15:59:44

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Man With No Name: جندي; +148|5877|The Wild West

yes. yes I do. If I saw a grave with a swatsika flag there, I would remove. Id be pretty sure you probably put it there.

2009-04-24 16:02:42

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Macbeth: Banned; +2,444|5887

Man With No Name wrote:
yes. yes I do. If I saw a grave with a swatsika flag there, I would remove. Id be pretty sure you probably put it there.

2009-04-24 16:04:01

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Man With No Name: جندي; +148|5877|The Wild West

cute

2009-04-24 16:16:52

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xBlackPantherx: Grow up, or die; +142|6645|California

Macbeth wrote:
So you all agree it's perfectly acceptable to remove flags from graves because you don't agree with what the flag stands for?

I think it was acceptable for him to remove the flags. The confederate flag stands for succession, racism and the confederate was a domestic enemy. I think it's fine as a joke (like on a shotglass or flask) but not in serious belief because with it most likely comes discrimination of many sorts.

Last edited by xBlackPantherx (2009-04-24 23:56:36)

2009-04-24 16:22:56

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m3thod: All kiiiiiiiiinds of gainz; +2,197|6973|UK

+1 to that black fella.

down with lowings racists.

Blackbelts are just whitebelts who have never quit.

2009-04-24 16:26:31

#14

Macbeth: Banned; +2,444|5887

lol ok everyone is fine about some dickhead thinking because he has a problem with it, it makes it acceptable to mess with the graves of other people.

2009-04-24 16:26:57

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Man With No Name: جندي; +148|5877|The Wild West

laughing out loud too!!!!! its funny!

2009-04-24 16:27:57

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ghettoperson: Member; +1,943|6951

Macbeth wrote:
So you all agree it's perfectly acceptable to remove flags from graves because you don't agree with what the flag stands for?

Man With No Name wrote:
yes. yes I do. If I saw a grave with a swatsika flag there, I would remove.

2009-04-24 16:28:19

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Macbeth: Banned; +2,444|5887

Man With No Name wrote:
laughing out loud too!!!!! its funny!

It's sad that you are willing to curb the personal freedom of other because you don't agree with their stance or views on life.

2009-04-24 16:28:51

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m3thod: All kiiiiiiiiinds of gainz; +2,197|6973|UK

Macbeth wrote:
lol ok everyone is fine about some dickhead thinking because he has a problem with it, it makes it acceptable to mess with the graves of other people.

it's not acceptable to display racist material anywhere that inculdes fuckin graves.

Blackbelts are just whitebelts who have never quit.

2009-04-24 16:29:47

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Man With No Name: جندي; +148|5877|The Wild West

Macbeth wrote:
Man With No Name wrote:
laughing out loud too!!!!! its funny!
It's sad that you are willing to curb the personal freedom of other because you don't agree with their stance or views on life.

sad? werent you LOLing a minute ago?

2009-04-24 16:29:53

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m3thod: All kiiiiiiiiinds of gainz; +2,197|6973|UK

Macbeth wrote:
Man With No Name wrote:
laughing out loud too!!!!! its funny!
It's sad that you are willing to curb the personal freedom of other because you don't agree with their stance or views on life.

displaying racist material = personal freedom?

Blackbelts are just whitebelts who have never quit.

2009-04-24 16:31:18

#21

Macbeth: Banned; +2,444|5887

m3thod wrote:
Macbeth wrote:
lol ok everyone is fine about some dickhead thinking because he has a problem with it, it makes it acceptable to mess with the graves of other people.
it's not acceptable to display racist material anywhere that inculdes fuckin graves.

Yes it is. I think the KKK and neo Nazis have a perfect enough right to display their shit on their property and graves.

Even if you don't agree with them, don't take away their right to display their views.

2009-04-24 16:31:55

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Man With No Name: جندي; +148|5877|The Wild West

Macbeth wrote:
m3thod wrote:
Macbeth wrote:
lol ok everyone is fine about some dickhead thinking because he has a problem with it, it makes it acceptable to mess with the graves of other people.
it's not acceptable to display racist material anywhere that inculdes fuckin graves.
Yes it is. I think the KKK and neo Nazis have a perfect enough right to display their shit on their property and graves.

Even if you don't agree with them, don't take away their right to display their views.

poor misunderstood fellas is what they are.

2009-04-24 16:31:59

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Monkey Spanker: Show it to the nice monkey.; +284|6554|England

m3thod wrote:
it's not acceptable to display racist material anywhere that inculdes fuckin graves.

Quote of the year so far "Fifa 11 on the other hand... shiny things for mongos "-mtb0minime

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2009-04-24 16:32:27

#24

m3thod: All kiiiiiiiiinds of gainz; +2,197|6973|UK

Macbeth wrote:
m3thod wrote:
Macbeth wrote:
lol ok everyone is fine about some dickhead thinking because he has a problem with it, it makes it acceptable to mess with the graves of other people.
it's not acceptable to display racist material anywhere that inculdes fuckin graves.
Yes it is. I think the KKK and neo Nazis have a perfect enough right to display their shit on their property and graves.

Even if you don't agree with them, don't take away their right to display their views.

No they dont and try and stop me.

Blackbelts are just whitebelts who have never quit.

2009-04-24 16:33:47

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Man With No Name: جندي; +148|5877|The Wild West

what was macbeths original forum name?

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