🚀 go-pugleaf

Apparently you did not read the second paragraph of my reply, and no where
did I say that I was a "flagger."  You are assuming things that you know
nothing about.


-- 
Steve Hall
Commander - Lt. Col. Wm. M. Luffman Camp #938 SCV - Chatsworth, GA
Moderator - Georgia Division Sons of Confederate Veterans E-mail groups

"Phil Couch" <couchp@spamcomcast.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Steve Hall" <tunnlhll@catt.com> wrote in message
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> The RIGHT THING would be to allow a FAIR vote of the people of this state,
> after all, this is supposed to be a democracy!
>
> I know, someone will say that it is really a "representative democracy"
but
> the flag fight clearly shows that our representatives are NOT following
the
> will of their constituents.
>
> -- 
> Steve Hall
>
> "Rob Jones" <RJones@msn.com> wrote in message
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> > no he did the right thing. see the way it works is that the loser of the
> > Civil War (that's the south) should not be allowed to fly their flag.
> since
> > when can the loser of a War fly their own flag?  get over it. the Civil
> War
> > is settled and the South needs to get educated and move on.( or continue
> > down the same dead end road they've been on)
> >
> > --rj
> >
> >
> > "Brojack" <brojack99@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:cd6f2cf5.0305120802.476af0e9@posting.google.com...
> > > Gov. Sonny Perdue of Georgia is a wimp!! He bowed down to the darkies
> > > and change the flag to leave out the Conferate part. Dam wimp. Right
> > > now, we got a border-line racist in the White House, and he is packing
> > > the courts. All Sonny had to do is wait. We are going to roll back all
> > > the Civil Rights Shit, all the Voting Right Shit, and Roe vs Wade..
> > > You watch.. Bush is packing the courts. And do be suprised if you
> > > don't see BORK nominated to the Supreme Court.
> > >
> > > And the Affirmative Action is going to be history.. It is a done
> > > deal...
> > >
> > > Brojack
> > >
> > > http://www.msnbc.com/news/910979.asp?0dm=N24FN
> > >
> > > The new Georgia state flag and the U.S. flag wave by Miss Liberty on
> > > the Capitol in Atlanta.
> > >
> > > Governor signs bill to replace Georgia's flag
> > >
> > > Dixie cross of stars removed
> > >
> > >
> > > ASSOCIATED PRESS
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >       ATLANTA, May 8 -  Gov. Sonny Perdue signed a bill Thursday to
> > > replace the unpopular 2-year-old state flag with a simpler design that
> > > does not include a Confederate battle emblem.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >  'I've never seen anybody flying it! You ever seen it on a boat? You
> > > ever seen it at a football game? Nobody flies this thing!'
> > > - GEORGIA REP. LARRY WALKER
> > >          THE NEW FLAG, inspired by a national Confederate flag but
> > > without the divisive Dixie cross of stars, was raised over the Capitol
> > > for the first time shortly after the governor signed the bill.
> > >        "The flag the General Assembly adopted honors Georgia's past,"
> > > Perdue said before signing the bill. "It is also a flag that will
> > > allow us to move forward together."
> > >        The flag displays the state's coat of arms and the words "In
> > > God We Trust" on a blue corner in the top left, with three
> > > red-and-white stripes to the right.
> > >        The 2001 flag was called a political masterstroke when it was
> > > adopted, replacing a divisive banner dominated by the Confederate
> > > battle cross.
> > >        But the closing hours of Georgia's shortest-lived flag brought
> > > little in the way of fond farewells. Even some of the architects of
> > > the 2001 flag gave it a curt obituary.
> > >
> > > NO "DREAM FLAG"
> > >        "In no way am I sad that flag is being retired," joked Rep.
> > > Tyrone Brooks, a black Atlanta Democrat who led the charge to adopt it
> > > two years ago. "It's not exactly, you know, anybody's dream flag."
> > >        The brief-flying state flag was a compromise intended to shrink
> > > the Confederate emblem but incorporate the symbol in a mini-montage of
> > > old Georgia flags.
> > >        The result was what many considered a visual train wreck of
> > > words, seals and stars.
> > >        The flag was voted the nation's ugliest by a group of flag
> > > experts just five months after it was adopted. Southern heritage
> > > groups started calling it a "rag." Schoolchildren couldn't draw it.
> > > Around the Capitol, it was commonly referred to as looking like a
> > > place mat from a Denny's restaurant.
> > >        As lawmakers wrangled for months over changing the state flag
> > > this winter and spring, a rural Democrat summed up Georgia's
> > > frustration with the 2001 banner.
> > >        "I've never seen anybody flying it!" cried Rep. Larry Walker,
> > > of Perry, south of Macon. "You ever seen it on a boat? You ever seen
> > > it at a football game? Nobody flies this thing!"
> > >        Georgia's latest flag saga started last summer, when a rural
> > > Republican - Perdue - started talking about it in his underdog
> > > campaign to oust Democratic Gov. Roy Barnes. His promise of a
> > > statewide vote on the flag figured prominently in his surprise victory
> > > in November.
> > >        Perdue originally wanted a vote on the 1956 flag with its
> > > dominant Dixie "X" - adopted by an all-white
> > >
> > >          Legislature at the height of Southern resistance to
> > > integration.
> > >        But after months of arguing, lawmakers decided to quash any
> > > chance of the Confederate emblem's revival and drew a new flag
> > > instead. Perdue agreed to the compromise.
> > >        Civil rights groups had threatened an economic boycott if
> > > Georgia revived the Dixie cross, which many blacks lawmakers call a
> > > symbol of oppression. Southern heritage advocates, on the other hand,
> > > called the new flag a betrayal.
> > >
> > > REFERENDUM NEXT YEAR
> > >        Georgia voters will still get a referendum next year - to pick
> > > between the new three-stripe flag and the 2001 flag. Few give the 2001
> > > flag any chance to win.
> > >        "It's a flag that Georgians didn't warm up to," said Merle
> > > Black, a political scientist at Emory University. "They just didn't
> > > embrace it. Very few people ever bought that flag except the ones that
> > > had to, schools and so on."
> > >        Perdue said he was not completely satisfied with the bill
> > > because it did not give people a chance to vote on restoring the 1956
> > > state flag.
> > >        "While this bill does not include everything I asked for in my
> > > plan, I will respect the decision of the elected representatives of
> > > the people of Georgia," Perdue said.
> > >        Even critics of the 2001 flag's design acknowledge that it
> > > served its purpose as a transition piece that made the replacement of
> > > the 1956 flag possible.
> > >        And Barnes, whose official portrait in the Capitol shows him in
> > > front of the 2001 flag, he has no regrets.
> > >        "The important thing was to remove the Confederate emblem from
> > > its position of prominence," said Bobby Kahn, Barnes' chief of staff.
> > > "That was the important step. And we're still proud of that."
> >
> >
>
> It is not now, nor has it ever been a Democracy, it's a Republic.  I will
> agree Perdue is a wimp.  He led you flaggers into believing there would be
a
> vote, and you fell for it and elected him.  Joke is on you!
>
>