🚀 go-pugleaf

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
news:vc0286r6eh2c3@corp.supernews.com...
> 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."
>
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