---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote :
Scapegoating? Yes, remove that flag. Removing it now is an important act in the play of a large Dharma. Removing that flag is part and parcel of a public education in transcendent and inalienable rights in our long culture of equal rights for everyone in equal protection under communal law. That the rebel flag would be accepted and flown above in any public space of our governance along with our larger symbols of national and state flag shows a profound failure of some public leadership and education in greater public process and values. It is time to remove that old battle flag of ignorance from our public spaces of governance. Flags are just symbols. Everyone knows the country has changed. I'm sure they never would have flown it all these years if anyone thought it still represented the pre-civil war mentality. So taking it down now because of one lonely fruitcake's a-social psychopathology seems daft to me. That's why I called it scapegoating. It's just a pretty bit of cloth. But then maybe i'm incapable of being a fair judge, I come from a country with a flag that has no negative historical connotations whatsoever. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : Let's scapegoat the flag. Someone kills loads of people and likes the flag so the flag has to go. I guess that makes a certain twisted sense. And I thought the southerners had rehabilitated themselves by claiming slavery was going to be abolished anyway? That's Hollywood for you. I hope I'm still allowed to enjoy the Dukes of Hazzard... South Carolina governor calls for removal of Confederate flag from statehouse http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/22/confederate-flag-south-carolina-charleston http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/22/confederate-flag-south-carolina-charleston South Carolina governor calls for removal of Confederate... http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/22/confederate-flag-south-carolina-charleston Governor Nikki Haley makes abrupt about-face in wake of Charleston killings to call for removal of flag that has flown on statehouse grounds for 50 years View on www.theguardian.com http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/22/confederate-flag-south-carolina-charleston Preview by Yahoo
