Florida Governor Again Caves In to the Race Hustlers

[protectionist]

Yes they were. They were Americans as much as any American who has ever lived. They were the Confederate States of AMERICA. And Americans don't suddenly stop being Americans, just because somebody doesn't like them.

And the Florida Veteran's Hall of Fame memorial is one that is for veterans of Florida, not the US as a whole.

They quit being Americans when they took up arms against America and ATTACKED America. It is BS to honor those who fought to preserve slavery, pure BS.

Then you don't salute the flag or honor it right? What you ignorant libtards don't comprehend is that no ship EVER flew the confederate flag over a slave ship. Can't say the same for the US flag.

WTF does that even mean? So the south brought in slaves using the American flag how does flying the US flag absolve a war that killed more Americans then any other war? By the time of the Civil War there would be little reason to import more slaves, besides there being an embargo keeping almost anything from being shipped to the confederate states.

OFF TOPIC!! This thread is about Rick Scott cowardly caving in to NAACP racists, by refusing to honor Florida veterans, not something about ships, flags, embargos, etc

The reason for not honoring them is the topic, odiumsaid brought up shipping slaves.

Don't tell me what the the topic is, I created it, you assclown. Now get on topic or get out of the thread.

 

[protectionist]

 

[Flopper]

The law is pretty clear in regard to membership in the Florida Veterans Hall of Fame. A person must have an honorable discharge from a branch of a US military service. Being a confederate and fighting against the United States doesn't count. However, what do you expect from a bunch of Florida republicans, always finding loopholes to appease blacks.

Gov. Rick Scott and Cabinet refuse to honor Confederate war heroes Tampa Bay Times

Oh yeah, right. Those doggone Republicans. What a bunch of Black appeasers they are. Clear throat. High-pitched whistle. Eyes rolling around in head. And you don't need to give me a link to a story about this . You already got your link that I gave to you. http://www.military.com/daily-news/2...l-of-fame.html
And the North was just as much fighting against the United States as the South was, so don't give me that "doesn't count" crap. The VA has defined Confederate veterans as veterans of the United States military (in 1958).

If the state of Florida wants make them eligible for membership in the hall fame, they can change the eligibility requirement of the law. With a Republican legislature and a Republican governor they can easily do so. Till then, the governor is following the law as he should.

IMHO, any organized group which tries to kill U.S. soldiers should not be honored as US veterans and that includes confederate veterans, American Indians, or any group that fights US armed forces.

As I already stated, and the link did also, these veterans fully meet the eligibility requirements. No, Scott's NOT following anything, except wimping out to the NAACP, and whatever they're threatening him with - most likely a Ferguson type ordeal (protests escalating to riots). Anyone reading my link supplied at the end of the OP, can easily ascertain that. One would have to be the dumbest sucker in the world to fall for the really empty excuse Scott gave.

After reading the actual statue, I think you are correct. The statue does not specifically limit inductees to veterans of the United States Armed Forces. I don't think confederates should be inducted but that's just my opinion.

Statutes Constitution View Statutes Online Sunshine

The Confederate soldiers WERE veterans of the United States Armed Forces. Your way of excluding them from this country, is incredibly bigoted against 90 million people living in the 11 southern states. Rethink.

I don't see how confederate troops can be considered veterans of the United States when they fought against the United States. Surely, you don't consider the Confederacy a part of the United States even though they seceded from the nation.

 

[protectionist]

Oh yeah, right. Those doggone Republicans. What a bunch of Black appeasers they are. Clear throat. High-pitched whistle. Eyes rolling around in head. And you don't need to give me a link to a story about this . You already got your link that I gave to you. http://www.military.com/daily-news/2...l-of-fame.html
And the North was just as much fighting against the United States as the South was, so don't give me that "doesn't count" crap. The VA has defined Confederate veterans as veterans of the United States military (in 1958).

If the state of Florida wants make them eligible for membership in the hall fame, they can change the eligibility requirement of the law. With a Republican legislature and a Republican governor they can easily do so. Till then, the governor is following the law as he should.

IMHO, any organized group which tries to kill U.S. soldiers should not be honored as US veterans and that includes confederate veterans, American Indians, or any group that fights US armed forces.

As I already stated, and the link did also, these veterans fully meet the eligibility requirements. No, Scott's NOT following anything, except wimping out to the NAACP, and whatever they're threatening him with - most likely a Ferguson type ordeal (protests escalating to riots). Anyone reading my link supplied at the end of the OP, can easily ascertain that. One would have to be the dumbest sucker in the world to fall for the really empty excuse Scott gave.

After reading the actual statue, I think you are correct. The statue does not specifically limit inductees to veterans of the United States Armed Forces. I don't think confederates should be inducted but that's just my opinion.

Statutes Constitution View Statutes Online Sunshine

The Confederate soldiers WERE veterans of the United States Armed Forces. Your way of excluding them from this country, is incredibly bigoted against 90 million people living in the 11 southern states. Rethink.

I don't see how confederate troops can be considered veterans of the United States when they fought against the United States. Surely, you don't consider the Confederacy a part of the United States even though they seceded from the nation.

WHAAATT ?? Of course the Confederacy was part of the United States. Can you locate it on this map ?

And the troops of the North also fought against the United States, when they fought against the United States South. Oh, I can see I'm having to conduct a training class to go through this thread.

 

[protectionist]

And all you naysayers know damn well that YOU OWE US SOUTHERNERS. Big time.

 

[Flopper]

If the state of Florida wants make them eligible for membership in the hall fame, they can change the eligibility requirement of the law. With a Republican legislature and a Republican governor they can easily do so. Till then, the governor is following the law as he should.

IMHO, any organized group which tries to kill U.S. soldiers should not be honored as US veterans and that includes confederate veterans, American Indians, or any group that fights US armed forces.

As I already stated, and the link did also, these veterans fully meet the eligibility requirements. No, Scott's NOT following anything, except wimping out to the NAACP, and whatever they're threatening him with - most likely a Ferguson type ordeal (protests escalating to riots). Anyone reading my link supplied at the end of the OP, can easily ascertain that. One would have to be the dumbest sucker in the world to fall for the really empty excuse Scott gave.

After reading the actual statue, I think you are correct. The statue does not specifically limit inductees to veterans of the United States Armed Forces. I don't think confederates should be inducted but that's just my opinion.

Statutes Constitution View Statutes Online Sunshine

The Confederate soldiers WERE veterans of the United States Armed Forces. Your way of excluding them from this country, is incredibly bigoted against 90 million people living in the 11 southern states. Rethink.

I don't see how confederate troops can be considered veterans of the United States when they fought against the United States. Surely, you don't consider the Confederacy a part of the United States even though they seceded from the nation.

WHAAATT ?? Of course the Confederacy was part of the United States. Can you locate it on this map ?

And the troops of the North also fought against the United States, when they fought against the United States South. Oh, I can see I'm having to conduct a training class to go through this thread.

No way. The southern states secede and declared their independence from the United States. Furthermore, they were not the United States South as you claim, the name of their nation was the Confederate States of America.

 

[protectionist]

As I already stated, and the link did also, these veterans fully meet the eligibility requirements. No, Scott's NOT following anything, except wimping out to the NAACP, and whatever they're threatening him with - most likely a Ferguson type ordeal (protests escalating to riots). Anyone reading my link supplied at the end of the OP, can easily ascertain that. One would have to be the dumbest sucker in the world to fall for the really empty excuse Scott gave.

After reading the actual statue, I think you are correct. The statue does not specifically limit inductees to veterans of the United States Armed Forces. I don't think confederates should be inducted but that's just my opinion.

Statutes Constitution View Statutes Online Sunshine

The Confederate soldiers WERE veterans of the United States Armed Forces. Your way of excluding them from this country, is incredibly bigoted against 90 million people living in the 11 southern states. Rethink.

I don't see how confederate troops can be considered veterans of the United States when they fought against the United States. Surely, you don't consider the Confederacy a part of the United States even though they seceded from the nation.

WHAAATT ?? Of course the Confederacy was part of the United States. Can you locate it on this map ?

And the troops of the North also fought against the United States, when they fought against the United States South. Oh, I can see I'm having to conduct a training class to go through this thread.

No way. The southern states secede and declared their independence from the United States. Furthermore, they were not the United States South as you claim, the name of their nation was the Confederate States of America.

What's in a name ? The southern states have always been part of the USA, and always will be, and YOU KNOW IT. You just don't like it, that's all. LOL. And like I said, YOU OWE US.

 

[bodecea]

In another act of political cowardice, (as in the Zimmerman case), Florida Governor Rick Scott has caved in to those who think Florida politics should be tailored to their special interest. Black politicians put pressure on Scott to deny 3 Florida Confederate veterans, a place in the state's Veterans' Hall of Fame memorial in the state capitol.

The three Confederate veterans were Edward Perry, a former governor; David Lang, who after the Civil War oversaw the reorganization of the state militia into the National Guard; and Samuel Pasco, a former U.S. senator and the namesake of Pasco County.

The excuse given by Scott and his lap dogs is that to be eligible, you have to be a military veteran of Florida ... have been honorably discharged, and played a significant part in the history of the state. These men do meet all these criteria. They are being stonewalled purely by the same pushy belligerence we see so often nowadays from Black radicals, who seem to demand that the whole country adjust everything to meet their agendas.

Here's some of the rather unbalanced complaints put foward by them >>

Adora Obi Nweze, president of NAACP Florida State Conference and Miami-Dade Branch, said she's "frankly appalled" by the effort.
"The Confederacy fought to tear apart our country, in support of savage slavery, in a misguided, hateful attempt to uphold that abomination," she said in a statement, "[and] to have these men honored in a memorial at the state Capitol for their service on the wrong side of history, would be an injustice to the descendants of enslaved Americans and an insult to all Americans who have bravely served our country with honor."
Army veteran Dale Landry, president of the NAACP chapter in Tallahassee, told Capitol News Service in Florida that extending the honor up to Confederate veterans opens up the door to other militaries that fought against the United States.
"The Japanese military, the Japanese army, the Japanese navy, you see? The Germans, the Nazis. I'm sorry, but that's the same to me," Landry said.

What absurdities. The Confederate soldiers were Americans, no matter how distasteful that fact may be to these rabble-rousers. And it is an insult to them and their descendants, and the descendants of all Confederate soldiers, to somehow redefine them as non-Americans, comparable to German Nazis and Japs of World War II. The US govt defined them as US veterans in 1958, and at that time extended all VA benefits to their survivors (no Civil War veterans, North or South, remained alive by 1958).

The Sons of Confederate Veterans, a national group founded in Richmond, Virginia, and based in Columbia, Tennessee, say the recognition isn't about defending slavery, but honoring those who answered their country's call. I agree. This honor of the Florida Veterans' Hall of Fame memorial, is about the men who served, not about the politics behind it, which came from politicians, who, for the most part, did not serve. What will Americans 100 years from now say about the Vietnam Veterans ? That they should not be honored for having served (58,000 were killed), because of a disapproval of that war's politics ?

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2...l-of-fame.html

Good...they were traitors....lucky to not be shot or hung.

 

[protectionist]

In another act of political cowardice, (as in the Zimmerman case), Florida Governor Rick Scott has caved in to those who think Florida politics should be tailored to their special interest. Black politicians put pressure on Scott to deny 3 Florida Confederate veterans, a place in the state's Veterans' Hall of Fame memorial in the state capitol.

The three Confederate veterans were Edward Perry, a former governor; David Lang, who after the Civil War oversaw the reorganization of the state militia into the National Guard; and Samuel Pasco, a former U.S. senator and the namesake of Pasco County.

The excuse given by Scott and his lap dogs is that to be eligible, you have to be a military veteran of Florida ... have been honorably discharged, and played a significant part in the history of the state. These men do meet all these criteria. They are being stonewalled purely by the same pushy belligerence we see so often nowadays from Black radicals, who seem to demand that the whole country adjust everything to meet their agendas.

Here's some of the rather unbalanced complaints put foward by them >>

Adora Obi Nweze, president of NAACP Florida State Conference and Miami-Dade Branch, said she's "frankly appalled" by the effort.
"The Confederacy fought to tear apart our country, in support of savage slavery, in a misguided, hateful attempt to uphold that abomination," she said in a statement, "[and] to have these men honored in a memorial at the state Capitol for their service on the wrong side of history, would be an injustice to the descendants of enslaved Americans and an insult to all Americans who have bravely served our country with honor."
Army veteran Dale Landry, president of the NAACP chapter in Tallahassee, told Capitol News Service in Florida that extending the honor up to Confederate veterans opens up the door to other militaries that fought against the United States.
"The Japanese military, the Japanese army, the Japanese navy, you see? The Germans, the Nazis. I'm sorry, but that's the same to me," Landry said.

What absurdities. The Confederate soldiers were Americans, no matter how distasteful that fact may be to these rabble-rousers. And it is an insult to them and their descendants, and the descendants of all Confederate soldiers, to somehow redefine them as non-Americans, comparable to German Nazis and Japs of World War II. The US govt defined them as US veterans in 1958, and at that time extended all VA benefits to their survivors (no Civil War veterans, North or South, remained alive by 1958).

The Sons of Confederate Veterans, a national group founded in Richmond, Virginia, and based in Columbia, Tennessee, say the recognition isn't about defending slavery, but honoring those who answered their country's call. I agree. This honor of the Florida Veterans' Hall of Fame memorial, is about the men who served, not about the politics behind it, which came from politicians, who, for the most part, did not serve. What will Americans 100 years from now say about the Vietnam Veterans ? That they should not be honored for having served (58,000 were killed), because of a disapproval of that war's politics ?

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2...l-of-fame.html

Good...they were traitors....lucky to not be shot or hung.

No. You are lucky to get away with saying that. And their descendants should be paid reparartions$$$$$$$ for all the damage the North soldiers did from invading the South.

 

[protectionist]

They stopped being Americans when they seceded.

Why would Florida honor traitors anyway? I'm really surprised that Governor Toad wouldn't do it. One small good thing about him, though he'll probably cave to the whining. Do you live in Floriduh?

Ravi u r a bad girl

A bad, BIGOTED girl.

How am I bigoted, aside from bigoted against traitors.

Your words >>> "Do you live in Floriduh? In one sentence you insulted 20 Million Americans, living in Florida.

The vast majority of Floridians are idiots. That isn't bigotry, it's fact.

Compared to New Yorkers (from New York City), Floridians are geniuses. New Yorkers are the dumbest. Just look who they elected to be their Mayor. Dumbass DeBlasio.

 

[Flopper]

After reading the actual statue, I think you are correct. The statue does not specifically limit inductees to veterans of the United States Armed Forces. I don't think confederates should be inducted but that's just my opinion.

Statutes Constitution View Statutes Online Sunshine

The Confederate soldiers WERE veterans of the United States Armed Forces. Your way of excluding them from this country, is incredibly bigoted against 90 million people living in the 11 southern states. Rethink.

I don't see how confederate troops can be considered veterans of the United States when they fought against the United States. Surely, you don't consider the Confederacy a part of the United States even though they seceded from the nation.

WHAAATT ?? Of course the Confederacy was part of the United States. Can you locate it on this map ?

And the troops of the North also fought against the United States, when they fought against the United States South. Oh, I can see I'm having to conduct a training class to go through this thread.

No way. The southern states secede and declared their independence from the United States. Furthermore, they were not the United States South as you claim, the name of their nation was the Confederate States of America.

What's in a name ? The southern states have always been part of the USA, and always will be, and YOU KNOW IT. You just don't like it, that's all. LOL. And like I said, YOU OWE US.

CSA soldiers killed over 360,000 to preserve a way of life based on keeping blacks enslaved. They simply do not deserve to be include in a hall of fame with soldiers who fought for the freedom of all Americans.

 

[Flopper]

After reading the actual statue, I think you are correct. The statue does not specifically limit inductees to veterans of the United States Armed Forces. I don't think confederates should be inducted but that's just my opinion.

Statutes Constitution View Statutes Online Sunshine

The Confederate soldiers WERE veterans of the United States Armed Forces. Your way of excluding them from this country, is incredibly bigoted against 90 million people living in the 11 southern states. Rethink.

I don't see how confederate troops can be considered veterans of the United States when they fought against the United States. Surely, you don't consider the Confederacy a part of the United States even though they seceded from the nation.

WHAAATT ?? Of course the Confederacy was part of the United States. Can you locate it on this map ?

And the troops of the North also fought against the United States, when they fought against the United States South. Oh, I can see I'm having to conduct a training class to go through this thread.

No way. The southern states secede and declared their independence from the United States. Furthermore, they were not the United States South as you claim, the name of their nation was the Confederate States of America.

What's in a name ? The southern states have always been part of the USA, and always will be, and YOU KNOW IT. You just don't like it, that's all. LOL. And like I said, YOU OWE US.

The states of the Confederacy would certainly not agree they were part of the United States.

 

[Flopper]

In another act of political cowardice, (as in the Zimmerman case), Florida Governor Rick Scott has caved in to those who think Florida politics should be tailored to their special interest. Black politicians put pressure on Scott to deny 3 Florida Confederate veterans, a place in the state's Veterans' Hall of Fame memorial in the state capitol.

The three Confederate veterans were Edward Perry, a former governor; David Lang, who after the Civil War oversaw the reorganization of the state militia into the National Guard; and Samuel Pasco, a former U.S. senator and the namesake of Pasco County.

The excuse given by Scott and his lap dogs is that to be eligible, you have to be a military veteran of Florida ... have been honorably discharged, and played a significant part in the history of the state. These men do meet all these criteria. They are being stonewalled purely by the same pushy belligerence we see so often nowadays from Black radicals, who seem to demand that the whole country adjust everything to meet their agendas.

Here's some of the rather unbalanced complaints put foward by them >>

Adora Obi Nweze, president of NAACP Florida State Conference and Miami-Dade Branch, said she's "frankly appalled" by the effort.
"The Confederacy fought to tear apart our country, in support of savage slavery, in a misguided, hateful attempt to uphold that abomination," she said in a statement, "[and] to have these men honored in a memorial at the state Capitol for their service on the wrong side of history, would be an injustice to the descendants of enslaved Americans and an insult to all Americans who have bravely served our country with honor."
Army veteran Dale Landry, president of the NAACP chapter in Tallahassee, told Capitol News Service in Florida that extending the honor up to Confederate veterans opens up the door to other militaries that fought against the United States.
"The Japanese military, the Japanese army, the Japanese navy, you see? The Germans, the Nazis. I'm sorry, but that's the same to me," Landry said.

What absurdities. The Confederate soldiers were Americans, no matter how distasteful that fact may be to these rabble-rousers. And it is an insult to them and their descendants, and the descendants of all Confederate soldiers, to somehow redefine them as non-Americans, comparable to German Nazis and Japs of World War II. The US govt defined them as US veterans in 1958, and at that time extended all VA benefits to their survivors (no Civil War veterans, North or South, remained alive by 1958).

The Sons of Confederate Veterans, a national group founded in Richmond, Virginia, and based in Columbia, Tennessee, say the recognition isn't about defending slavery, but honoring those who answered their country's call. I agree. This honor of the Florida Veterans' Hall of Fame memorial, is about the men who served, not about the politics behind it, which came from politicians, who, for the most part, did not serve. What will Americans 100 years from now say about the Vietnam Veterans ? That they should not be honored for having served (58,000 were killed), because of a disapproval of that war's politics ?

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2...l-of-fame.html

Good...they were traitors....lucky to not be shot or hung.

or punished as many slaves who instigated rebellion by being, hung, shot, burned alive, castrated, broken at the wheel, starved to death in death cages, etc..

 

[protectionist]

The Confederate soldiers WERE veterans of the United States Armed Forces. Your way of excluding them from this country, is incredibly bigoted against 90 million people living in the 11 southern states. Rethink.

I don't see how confederate troops can be considered veterans of the United States when they fought against the United States. Surely, you don't consider the Confederacy a part of the United States even though they seceded from the nation.

WHAAATT ?? Of course the Confederacy was part of the United States. Can you locate it on this map ?

And the troops of the North also fought against the United States, when they fought against the United States South. Oh, I can see I'm having to conduct a training class to go through this thread.

No way. The southern states secede and declared their independence from the United States. Furthermore, they were not the United States South as you claim, the name of their nation was the Confederate States of America.

What's in a name ? The southern states have always been part of the USA, and always will be, and YOU KNOW IT. You just don't like it, that's all. LOL. And like I said, YOU OWE US.

The states of the Confederacy would certainly not agree they were part of the United States.

They would agree that they were, and that the North was part of them. Both part of each other. It's like the arms are the North. The legs are the South. All one body.

 

[el_matador]

In some ways the Civil War was a war started by well to do southern politicians for their own self serving needs. Most of the Confederate Soldiers that fought and died in that war did not even own slaves.

 

[protectionist]

The Confederate soldiers WERE veterans of the United States Armed Forces. Your way of excluding them from this country, is incredibly bigoted against 90 million people living in the 11 southern states. Rethink.

I don't see how confederate troops can be considered veterans of the United States when they fought against the United States. Surely, you don't consider the Confederacy a part of the United States even though they seceded from the nation.

WHAAATT ?? Of course the Confederacy was part of the United States. Can you locate it on this map ?

And the troops of the North also fought against the United States, when they fought against the United States South. Oh, I can see I'm having to conduct a training class to go through this thread.

No way. The southern states secede and declared their independence from the United States. Furthermore, they were not the United States South as you claim, the name of their nation was the Confederate States of America.

What's in a name ? The southern states have always been part of the USA, and always will be, and YOU KNOW IT. You just don't like it, that's all. LOL. And like I said, YOU OWE US.

CSA soldiers killed over 360,000 to preserve a way of life based on keeping blacks enslaved. They simply do not deserve to be include in a hall of fame with soldiers who fought for the freedom of all Americans.

Vietnam veterans killed over a million Vietnamese, Laotians, and Cambodians, to deprive the Vietnamese of self-determination, and to prevent a democratic election that would have brought Ho Chi Minh to power (the choice of 80-99% of Vietnamese). Clearly, those US troops were the bad guys, fighting for a very bad cause.

Should they now be DIShonored by us not honoring them for their service ? - that includes 58,000 of them who were killed (as were hundreds of thousands of US southern soldiers) . And those Vietnam veterans invaded Vietnam. The US southern soldiers were the recipients of an invasion (like the Vietnamese).

Where you're going wrong is you're mixing together the political aim of the war with the battlefield heroics of the soldiers. The politics in both Vietnam and the Civil War came from politicians, not the soldiers. Soldiers just take orders and fight and die. You got a beef with the politics ? Take it up with the politician Not the soldiers, most of whom came from non-slave areas in the South, and never even knew slavery existed. They were simply fighting against invaders of their land, same as the NLF and North Vietnamese.

 

[protectionist]

In another act of political cowardice, (as in the Zimmerman case), Florida Governor Rick Scott has caved in to those who think Florida politics should be tailored to their special interest. Black politicians put pressure on Scott to deny 3 Florida Confederate veterans, a place in the state's Veterans' Hall of Fame memorial in the state capitol.

The three Confederate veterans were Edward Perry, a former governor; David Lang, who after the Civil War oversaw the reorganization of the state militia into the National Guard; and Samuel Pasco, a former U.S. senator and the namesake of Pasco County.

The excuse given by Scott and his lap dogs is that to be eligible, you have to be a military veteran of Florida ... have been honorably discharged, and played a significant part in the history of the state. These men do meet all these criteria. They are being stonewalled purely by the same pushy belligerence we see so often nowadays from Black radicals, who seem to demand that the whole country adjust everything to meet their agendas.

Here's some of the rather unbalanced complaints put foward by them >>

Adora Obi Nweze, president of NAACP Florida State Conference and Miami-Dade Branch, said she's "frankly appalled" by the effort.
"The Confederacy fought to tear apart our country, in support of savage slavery, in a misguided, hateful attempt to uphold that abomination," she said in a statement, "[and] to have these men honored in a memorial at the state Capitol for their service on the wrong side of history, would be an injustice to the descendants of enslaved Americans and an insult to all Americans who have bravely served our country with honor."
Army veteran Dale Landry, president of the NAACP chapter in Tallahassee, told Capitol News Service in Florida that extending the honor up to Confederate veterans opens up the door to other militaries that fought against the United States.
"The Japanese military, the Japanese army, the Japanese navy, you see? The Germans, the Nazis. I'm sorry, but that's the same to me," Landry said.

What absurdities. The Confederate soldiers were Americans, no matter how distasteful that fact may be to these rabble-rousers. And it is an insult to them and their descendants, and the descendants of all Confederate soldiers, to somehow redefine them as non-Americans, comparable to German Nazis and Japs of World War II. The US govt defined them as US veterans in 1958, and at that time extended all VA benefits to their survivors (no Civil War veterans, North or South, remained alive by 1958).

The Sons of Confederate Veterans, a national group founded in Richmond, Virginia, and based in Columbia, Tennessee, say the recognition isn't about defending slavery, but honoring those who answered their country's call. I agree. This honor of the Florida Veterans' Hall of Fame memorial, is about the men who served, not about the politics behind it, which came from politicians, who, for the most part, did not serve. What will Americans 100 years from now say about the Vietnam Veterans ? That they should not be honored for having served (58,000 were killed), because of a disapproval of that war's politics ?

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2...l-of-fame.html

Good...they were traitors....lucky to not be shot or hung.

or punished as many slaves who instigated rebellion by being, hung, shot, burned alive, castrated, broken at the wheel, starved to death in death cages, etc..

That still is symptomatic of politicians in political conference rooms, not soldiers on military battlefields.

 

[Ravi]

After reading the actual statue, I think you are correct. The statue does not specifically limit inductees to veterans of the United States Armed Forces. I don't think confederates should be inducted but that's just my opinion.

Statutes Constitution View Statutes Online Sunshine

The Confederate soldiers WERE veterans of the United States Armed Forces. Your way of excluding them from this country, is incredibly bigoted against 90 million people living in the 11 southern states. Rethink.

I don't see how confederate troops can be considered veterans of the United States when they fought against the United States. Surely, you don't consider the Confederacy a part of the United States even though they seceded from the nation.

WHAAATT ?? Of course the Confederacy was part of the United States. Can you locate it on this map ?

And the troops of the North also fought against the United States, when they fought against the United States South. Oh, I can see I'm having to conduct a training class to go through this thread.

No way. The southern states secede and declared their independence from the United States. Furthermore, they were not the United States South as you claim, the name of their nation was the Confederate States of America.

What's in a name ? The southern states have always been part of the USA, and always will be, and YOU KNOW IT. You just don't like it, that's all. LOL. And like I said, YOU OWE US.

If your premise is true then shooting them for their treasonous behavior was the right course of action.

 

[Ravi]

Ravi u r a bad girl

A bad, BIGOTED girl.

How am I bigoted, aside from bigoted against traitors.

Your words >>> "Do you live in Floriduh? In one sentence you insulted 20 Million Americans, living in Florida.

The vast majority of Floridians are idiots. That isn't bigotry, it's fact.

Compared to New Yorkers (from New York City), Floridians are geniuses. New Yorkers are the dumbest. Just look who they elected to be their Mayor. Dumbass DeBlasio.

Where did you emigrate from?

 

[Flopper]

I don't see how confederate troops can be considered veterans of the United States when they fought against the United States. Surely, you don't consider the Confederacy a part of the United States even though they seceded from the nation.

WHAAATT ?? Of course the Confederacy was part of the United States. Can you locate it on this map ?

And the troops of the North also fought against the United States, when they fought against the United States South. Oh, I can see I'm having to conduct a training class to go through this thread.

No way. The southern states secede and declared their independence from the United States. Furthermore, they were not the United States South as you claim, the name of their nation was the Confederate States of America.

What's in a name ? The southern states have always been part of the USA, and always will be, and YOU KNOW IT. You just don't like it, that's all. LOL. And like I said, YOU OWE US.

The states of the Confederacy would certainly not agree they were part of the United States.

They would agree that they were, and that the North was part of them. Both part of each other. It's like the arms are the North. The legs are the South. All one body.

You describing America today, not during the Civil War.