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Subscribe to RSSA Confederate battle flag flew atop a state building in Mississippi for a couple hours after workers mistakenly bought it, a state spokeswoman told the Clarion-Ledger newspaper.
The flag was put up on the state Supreme Court building in Jackson about 2 p.m. Friday and taken down by 4 p.m.
Kym Wiggins, public information officer for the state Department of Finance and Administration, gave this account, the Clarion-Ledger said:
Workers went to a local vendor to buy new flags to replace a state flag that was torn. They were given two boxes labeled "Mississippi State Flag" -- but the flags inside were Confederate battle flags. A maintenance worker then put up the flag, and the mistake wasn't noticed for a couple of hours.
Wiggins described the incident as "highly unusual."
A professor emeritus of political science at the University of Southern Mississippi gave the Clarion-Ledger a different take. "Have we seceded already?" said Joseph Parker. “The execution is faster than I thought.”
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Hey 3 Gold bars what is the percentage of blacks in Missisippi. God republicans are so friggen stupid and will believe anything.
We should have let the south go when we had the chance. Or burnt it to the ground. Sherman was right.
Arm chair history. LOL
It only proves what an ass you are. We are all Americans now. At least it was the last time I checked.
Secede please. Save us a ton on welfare payments.
There is no welfare in the North? Been to Chicago, Washington D.C., or New York lately?
Illinois and NY get back less from the Feds than they give in unlike Mississippi which gets back twice as much as they kick in. They are leaches.
Just like the female Fox news reporter that claimed America has less sunshine then Germany. Stupid people believe stupid things.
There will be outbreaks of this kind of "F U C K Y O U' and then the real thing will start.
This flag long ago became a symbol of State's rights for all. Not just whites however no one wants to admit that.
No just one party is really corrupt. The other still has people that care about the working class.
I guess you got your Obama phone!
Solar power will not work in America. LOL
And the proof about austerity is out there.
To quote the deputy Pell in the movie Mississipi Burning, "you in Mississppi now boy, rest of the world don't mean @!$%#"
How I wish you red-necks would just go ahead and secede. The composite IQ of the United States would increase by 20 or 30 points.
Assumption. Makes an A $ $ out of YOU.
Ha ha ha ha YOU would be left with all the blacks whose average IQ is 85! (Look it up if you don't believe me). You liberals are ALL idiots! I wish we would secede and divide our country in half. The libs could have all the lazy-assed, welfare collecting, leeches and we will stick with those that actually PRODUCE! See ya', jackass!
Dr. E
I'm a Canadian. I moved to Tennessee several years ago, and hope to stay, eventually becoming a citizen. I find it quite distasteful that you Americans keep bashing and flaming each other. Half of this country hates the other half. And the other half hates it back. We have freedom of religion, but the ACLU sues people for publicly being religious. We have freedom of speech, but if you disagree with President Obama you are branded racist. I've grown to love this country. My oldest son has expressed interest in joining the Marines. My youngest son was born in Tennessee. We want to be part of this country, but the attitudes I see here are discouraging.
By the way, I work throughout the whole South East US. I enjoy my time down here, regardless of the state I'm in, and I travel through them all.
Welcome to the States. I'm sorry you had to come at this time however if you are all you say don't just sit on the sidelines.
Help all of us to recover from the media. Green Day - American Idiot. That is the song that describes what has happened.
We love our rights. Love them too. Or you can't help at all.
Actually, I prefer Weird Al's Canadian Idiot :)
Long may the Stars and Bars wave! It's part of our wonderful history - when colored folks knew their place.....those were the good ole' days!
Dr. E
Oh God! We fought a civil war - brother against brother/father against son.
Don't you DARE bring us back you hillbilly!
Yeah, Dr. E... “wonderful history” of lynching, burning crosses and terrorizing innocent people. Kind of like the Taliban.
Southern Taliban... humm, got a ring of truth to it, doesn’t it? Only difference is, the KKK didn’t strap bombs onto themselves.
Now, now, now - you jealous Yankees don't need to get your panties in a wad! Just look at our country now and see the results of 40 years of liberalism. Oh yeah, we are better off now - - NOT! You jackasses are ruining our country. We were build on Judeo-Christian values and moral, Capitalism, and a strong work ethic. You libs cater to the lazy-assed, welfare collecting, leeches of our society. You can have them! I didn't take them to raise! Just for fun look up "The Color of Crime" and you might have your blind eyes opened! Jackass!
Dr. E
happiness is putting trolls like drmark on ignore....
Happines is NOT being married to a beeotch like LISA!
Dr. E
Seems like drmark is a drunken troll. That ignore button works wonderfully, folks. Don't forget to use it.
Hardy har har! Funny as hell. Who gives a damn what a bunch of Yankee 2nd generation trash thinks. Please gp back to Russia. Poland or whatever bologna bus you drifted in on. And tkae Bloomberg back to the Matza
bar he came from
Wow... you’re really a fartsmeller, Hank.
Say how are you and your sister getting along now that y’all got kids?
Where else but good ol' Mississippi...sweaty, stinky, armpit of the south y'awllllll.
We need to drag that part of the Country into the 21st Century, damn.
Mistake?
Bullshait.
It’s better to ask for forgiveness than for permission. Fire ‘em and prove you’re not bigoted Klansmen.
And if the guy that hoisted the flag is black, then what? Firing him would make you call the people of Mississippi bigoted klansmen. Sounds to me like you are just as bigoted as you imagine the people in Mississippi to be.
Yeah, right, shayne... Black.
And if wishes were money, you’d be a rich man.
I didn’t call “the people of MS bigoted Klansmen”. Got a chip on your shoulder, Shayne? Feeling a bit sensitive, are you? Kind of hit close to home, huh?
For whomever raised the flag, they had to see it going up and HAD to know it wasn’t the one up there yesterday (there’s a hint for you, Shayne), so... somewhere in there, the dittoheads raising the flag knew what they were doing and knew whoever their boss was, wouldn’t care. Kind of a culture thing, Shayne.
A Klan culture.
You know, Aus, you kind of radiate that attempting-to-be-intimidating, bullying kind of attitude, Aus. Do I have a chip on my shoulder, Aus? Yeah, Aus, when it comes to jerks like you. Talking about hitting close to home, Aus, that whole bigot thing seems to come easily to you. And yeah, Aus, you implied that folks in Mississippi are bigoted too.
Now Aus, if you had the intelligence to look at the Mississippi state flag (the first thing I did) you would see that it does kinda look like the Confederate flag. But you, Aus, are too self-righteous too look at the facts and consider that someone may make a mistake and inadvertently raise the wrong flag. But you know, Aus, that kind of bigoted, better-than-you crap attitude you play just shows that your opinion isn't worth listening to.
So Aus, take your culture, and yeah, Aus, I do mean the culture of gangrenous crap you call a brain, and try to exercise it. Because, Aus, you aren't quite as impressive as you think you are.
Mississippi. The poorest state, the highest teen pregancy rate, the highest STD rate, the highest obesity rate, the worst public school system. Yes, lots to be proud of there. If Mississippi were to secede, would anyone notice?
Oh, come on now! Haven't you heard or seen the commercials about the Gulf Coast states welcoming tourists back after the BP oil spill? Mississippi is one of them. Come on everybody, we can go be tourists and have our picture taken with some back-assward inbred folk! We can put on white sheets and pointy hats to have commemorative photos taken in front of the capital building with a big ole hate flag flying! Sounds like a grand vacation to me!
drmark...do have a white robe with a pointy hat? Burnt any crosses lately
no doubt a pointy head too.
I would agree
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They should have left the flag up there.
If Obama keeps up his disappointments we may be printing up something new.
But for now, that flag will suffice.
Mistakenly bought it?
Yeah right. Some are still stuck 150 years in the past- get over it, there is no Confederacy nor will there ever be.
The south shall rise again!!!!
The lord and savior, Pres. Jefferson Davis shall rise to lead them to ultimate VICTORY.
I gots the whole back bedroom of my trailer stocked with ammo and guns for when the time comes! I gots me two AR15s, a 1911 .45, an M4, two boxes of frags, C4, a Mk 19 grenade launcher and a fat bitchy wife just waiting for it to happen! I can't talk no more now, I gots to go to the outhouse and takes me a big ole crap!. Hallelujah!
Is anyone surprised all Mississippi's calendars are dated 1863? What's 150 years here or there?
I can only hope that MS secedes from the Union. They pull in much more in Federal taxes than what they put in, which means they're a republican 'taker' state that purports to believe in less government. Methinks one less of them wouldn't be a bad idea.
Is California, Chicago, or New York in good shape? Get back when you have the answer.
Seymour and Viewer... you guys are really a credit to the white race. Say hello to your uncle Adolph in hell...
Let it FLY!!!!! Our history is in fact "OUR" history. Too many of you forget this fact. I'm proud to be from the south and before you liberals start, I am not a racist. I'm not interested in hurt feelings or comments that try to turn my comments into an agenda. I too celebrate MLK day and the south has much history to be proud of. Afterall, we will all die free.....
Signed southern Master Mason
Yeah, so? The Confederate flag was a symbol of secessionist slave states during the Civil War. You pecker heads lost that war. Get over it. The only state in the union authorized a second national flag is Texas. That is because they were a sovereign nation before joining the United States in 1845.
I'm not a liberal, I'm a decent human being. The stars and bars, right or wrong, is associated with slavery, the KKK, and white supremacy.
only to some. presumption is a step in the wrong direction. In other words, one's defintion is best left to the individual.
You may not be a liberal but you don't know your buttus from a hollus inus the groundus. A TRUE history lesson would not hurt you.
Wrong, coug. The Confederate flag is associated with an effort to maintain a social and political norm, and a way of life, right or wrong. The effort obviously failed.
I'm not condeming all the people of Mississppi or the south. My father in law served with the Dixie division in the Korean War, the stars and bars were their divisional flag. To him it stod for freedom and helping an oppressed people. But to many today, because of the context it is seen in, the stars and bars is a symbol of white supremacy. By the way I know a little about history, enough to know that the Civil War was not just about slavery.
WSU,
The Stars and Bars is not the battle flag. The battle flag of the confederacy was square and had the "X" shape with 13 stars.
The Stars and Bars was a rectangle and was the first Confederate National Flag. It had a blue corner with 7 stars in a circle and three large stripes in the field: red, white, red. Because it looked so much like an American flag at a distance, the Confederacy abandoned the Stars and Bars went though several versions of a national flag. These later flags normally had a smaller version of the battle flag in the corner.
Funny but there was slaves in the north too. Most brought to the south by ships from up north.Slave trade was very lucrative for several shipping companies up north. When the war was over, the north didn't want them there either. When the northern men were told they were fighting to free the black man, some deserted.
NC...All I'm talking about is what the perception is today, your points are well taken.
WSU, OK, but I do like to slip in history whenever I can.
I also need to mention that many northerners fought against the Confederacy and were pro slavery. The war was not all about slaves.
I speak of the Copperhaeds, many who deserted the Union Army after the Emancipation Proclamation was made. That document also did NOT free slaves in the North; only the South.
Hmmmm.....
BS , in a nation trying to destroy itself, this flag represents more patriotism than most things our unamerican govt is doing today! Regardless of popular 'biased opinion", most Confederate soldiers fought over "states rights" , not slavery, and most had never owned slaves or had any connection to slavery! In a nation that allows traitorous teachers to encourage children to recite the PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE and insert the words 'ONE NATION UNDER ALLAH" , I am much more worried about the islamic religion that seeks to enslave the WHOLE WORLD!
Stop your inane discussion about the flag's design color...etc. You sound like a bunch of interior designers deciding how to decorate Liberace's tomb.
You want your star and bars? Go to your local market and look for one in the cleaning supplies aisle. From floor mops to rags for the car or a mat to put on the floor by your toilet, to catch liquid waste if you are a dripper after a pee
LegalTX States Rights is code for independence from the US and its laws protecting minorities rights. Join Al Qaeda if you want the US dismembered. Southern patriotism? Over what the Confederate Southern States....give me a break
Yhbua, you do realize that our nation was formed as a republic of independent states, don't you? states rights has to do with the rights of the individual states to govern and rule themselves as outlined in our constitution. specifically, the 10th amendment of our bill of rights, which says that powers not given to the federal government by the constitution, or prohibited to the states, belong to the states or the people, i.e. states rights. our country was not designed to have an all powerful controlling cnetral government. but thank you for making it about race...
BD, are you talking about the constitution that said that all men were created equal. Are you saying that part of the constitution can be prohibited by states rights ?