[Vision2020] Moles and mole hills

[Donovan Arnold]

I don't think you can call the people that fought in the Civil War Anti-Americans. Most US wars up until that time would have been lost without the help of many of the Confederate officers. People just had a different vision of what America was about. Many US Presidents and Vice Presidents sided on either side of that war. It is simply that most of the people in power in the South believed that the power resided in the states, and most of the people in the North thought thought the power should reside in the federal government. 

 
People in the United State back then didn't think of themselves as US citizens, they thought of themselves a Virginians and Georgians (which had been around a lot longer then the US) and they didn't recall giving any outside government the right to force their will on their state (probably because they actually never did). 
 
If the United Nations forced its political will on the US today, don't you think we might be divided on that issue and still be able to call ourselves Americans? 
 
Donovan J. Arnold
From: Lynn McCollough <lmccollough at gmail.com>
To: vision2020 at moscow.com 
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 7:30 PM
Subject: [Vision2020] Moles and mole hills

When I made the original post, I was very aware that the flag in
question was part of a historical display.
I was questioning, and upset by the fact that it appeared to me to be
the most prominently displayed flag in the lobby of my courthouse.
Tom's pictures were taken either with a flash or the light was very
different from when I was in the lobby. When I was there, the flags on
poles, of the US and Idaho and been pushed to a very shaded corner,
and they were not well lit at all.
BTW, the flag that bothered me is not THE confederate flag. It is the
stars and bars, the historic battle flag used in armed conflict with
the USA.
This flag only represents anti-US sentiment. It was not the official
flag of the confederacy. Look it up.
Thank you for the analogy of what single flag would best represent the
European theater of WW2. I do not want that flag displayed either.
Yes, my father was a WW2 vet.

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