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Anonymous wrote:A flag is symbolic and can stir up all kinds of feelings. If a Confederate flag is understandably offensive to people in an office and shouldn't be displayed in a cubicle, why can the American flag be burned as freedom of speech? Both are often described as "just symbols."

Burn an American flag in your cube go ahead. I dare you. Being allowed to do something, and being allowed to do it in a federal,workplace (or any workplace) are not the same thing.

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Anonymous wrote:Let me explain something: Secession was about slavery and maintaining white supremacy, but the United State's response was not about ending white supremacy or slavery. It was about ending rebellion.

Lincoln's position evolves on this throughout the war. He starts the war with the intent to end rebellion and hold the Union together and maintaining democracy. Thousands and thousands of AA fled during the war and many demanded that they be allowed to join the army and fight. With Lincoln's support, the Army created the United States Colored Troops and they fought bravely n ithe face of being slaughtered by the likes of Nathan Bedford Forrest or to slavery if captured. Their courage and lobbying efforts on their behalf persuaded Lincoln that emancipation is the right thing to do. So he does it. He was very grateful that they were willing to fight for the Union and very impressed with their courage and determination

It was really a three way contest, politically. The slave-owning South has one set of interests. The white North have another set of interests. African Americans have a different set of interests. African Americans ally themselves to the North and are rewarded with the emancipation proclamation. Lincoln: "You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you; but, no matter. Fight you, then exclusively to save the Union."

I love the USCT. They are a new generation of Founding Fathers. They fought for their freedom and endorsed the principles of liberty with their blood. Don't talk to me about Washington and Franklin. My Founding Fathers are the USCT, Lincoln, Grant and Sherman.

Anonymous wrote:A flag is symbolic and can stir up all kinds of feelings. If a Confederate flag is understandably offensive to people in an office and shouldn't be displayed in a cubicle, why can the American flag be burned as freedom of speech? Both are often described as "just symbols."

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Anonymous wrote:For all of the free speech posters, what if instead of a confederate flag, this employee had a calendar of girls in skimpy bikinis at his desk or nude women from playboy? This would clearly not be allowed, yet these things are legal and asking to remove them would be an infringement of free speech, so to say.

What if instead of a confederate flag, he had the flag of Sweden? The bastards eat reindeer there.

Anonymous wrote:Let me explain something: Secession was about slavery and maintaining white supremacy, but the United State's response was not about ending white supremacy or slavery. It was about ending rebellion.