Name:	lucky67 -	Reply
Subject:	flag
Date:	6/23/2015 4:15:00 PM

Alotta Signs of Sparks, Nev., typically sells about five Confederate flags per week. On Monday, however, 46 orders came in. Then South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley called for removing the stars and bars from her state's capitol grounds. The next morning, Alotta Signs logged 200 orders for Confederate flags, most of them through Amazon (AMZN). “We don’t even have the lowest price,” says Dave Pearson, owner and president of the company. “It’s nuts.”

Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	flag
Date:	6/23/2015 4:51:00 PM

Well, they can't buy them at Walmart.  The thing about the flag is a red herring.  What happened in Charleston didn't have to do with the flag.  It has to do with an ignorant redneck filled with hate, who wanted to make a name for himself.  Flag or no flag, there will always be people that are filled with hate.  But, I am in favor of taking it down.  It bothers people and really, what is the point?  I have no problem with them flying it at a Confederate battlefield or at a battlefied re-enactment.  We can't deny it is part of our history, but why fly it at the statehouse?

Name:	architect -	Reply
Subject:	well put
Date:	6/23/2015 5:21:15 PM (updated 6/23/2015 5:32:45 PM)

In many parts of this nation outside the old Confederacy and by many, including some native white, southerners the battle flag can understandably be seen as a symbol of oppression and even treason. 

The flag had nothing directly to do with the actions of this nut in Charleston, but the fact he saw fit to use it as a prop speaks volumns about what this flag has come to stand for in the eyes of millions.  In the 1920's, 30's and 40's a group of blood thirsty nuts in Germany managed to forever corrupt a perfectly fine symbol used by both East Indians of Asia and native American Indians...in the 1960's through today, other nuts have sadly sullied another honorable symbol.  Don't get me wrong, the real cause of the Southern rebellion was completely ignoble, but those who fought and died for that cause were noble and honorable men and women. It's time to move the flag to a position in a museum along with other relics of the lost cause.  As a nation, we are better off as a whole to retire a symbol that has become as tarnished and divisive as the Confederate cross of St Andrew.  The swastika will probably never be seen again by anyone, other than a few extremist racist nuts, with anything other than disgust.  It behooves us not to let the battle flag continued to be degraded to the point it has a similar fate.

Name:	Lighthouse -	Reply
Subject:	well put
Date:	6/23/2015 8:36:04 PM

AMEN