[Vision2020] A Celebration of the Confederacy - No Thanks

Thu Jul 12 16:36:13 PDT 2012

Gary, you are just plain wrong about this.  There is a ton of material
available locally about the GAR, pictures of GAR parades down a very muddy
Main St., and lots of local newspaper stories about candidates running for
local office and bragging about their Union experience.  It would take less
than three hours and a few bucks to get a mighty fine display put together.
None of which has anything on earth to do with a confederate rag and the
pointless display of an old pistol in our court house.  

Self righteous rant my ass, mindless defense of the indefensible ought to be
your concern.

But, I do hope you are having a nice summer.

Rose

From: Gary Crabtree [mailto:moscowlocksmith at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 4:25 PM
To: Rosemary Huskey
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] A Celebration of the Confederacy - No Thanks

Talk about mole hill to mountain mutations, this display has been up in the
courthouse lobby for months. Previously it contained a similarly educational
display with WW II as the topic of interest. I take it that no one on this
forum who is wailing and gnashing their teeth has actually looked at the
display. There is nothing in it that is even remotely a "celebration" of the
confederacy. Aside from the flag and a pistol, every thing else is union
memorabilia and items with a connection between the GAR and various locals.

It sure doesn't take much to set the usual suspects off on a self righteous
rant.

g

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Rosemary Huskey
<donaldrose at cpcinternet.com> wrote:

Hi Tom,

I am sorry to be writing to you with a complaint but I must.  I know that
you and the other county commissioners are not responsible for the display
in the lobby of the courthouse.  Nonetheless, the fact that that display as
been up for at least two days without (apparently) concern on your part is
making my head explode. (Maybe you are out of town and don't know about this
- if so, I apologize to you) I hate to use the expression WTF, but really
Tom, WTF.  What would national news outlets think, given Idaho's connection
with the Aryan Nations, Doug Wilson's Southern Slavery as It Was, and local
freaky Tea Party morons who think State's Rights trump all?  If the
Confederacy is going to celebrated front and center in the Courthouse it is
my expectation that the following images (make sure the county contacts the
appropriate parties for permission to show what the Confederacy really
represented.  

http://www.google.com/imgres?num=10
<http://www.google.com/imgres?num=10&hl=en&biw=1252&bih=553&tbm=isch&tbnid=1
saW5ihZa0wCNM:&imgrefurl=http://www.nps.gov/liho/historyculture/slavery.htm&
docid=eRJwpL7MsegHkM&imgurl=http://www.nps.gov/liho/historyculture/images/sl
avery.jpg&w=295&h=340&ei=0k3_T6ecDoeh2QWpms2dBA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=391&vpy=1
73&dur=1&hovh=241&hovw=209&tx=97&ty=94&sig=108509628582744690057&page=1&tbnh
=156&tbnw=135&start=0&ndsp=12&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0,i:148>
&hl=en&biw=1252&bih=553&tbm=isch&tbnid=1saW5ihZa0wCNM:&imgrefurl=http://www.
nps.gov/liho/historyculture/slavery.htm&docid=eRJwpL7MsegHkM&imgurl=http://w
ww.nps.gov/liho/historyculture/images/slavery.jpg&w=295&h=340&ei=0k3_T6ecDoe
h2QWpms2dBA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=391&vpy=173&dur=1&hovh=241&hovw=209&tx=97&ty=
94&sig=108509628582744690057&page=1&tbnh=156&tbnw=135&start=0&ndsp=12&ved=1t
:429,r:2,s:0,i:148

http://www.nps.gov/liho/historyculture/images/slavery.jpg

http://abagond.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/current-arguments-about-slavery/

http://abagond.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/slavery02.jpg

And, while I am exploding (but not at you) could you please let me and the
rest of your Latah County constituency know who is responsible for this
display.  I can't believe that Ms. Petersen has any interest in glorify the
pestilent-ridden sink hole of the Ol' South.

Thanks, and I so hope I won't to be this crabby for at least the rest of the
summer.  

Rose Huskey

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