Minn. City Councilman Defends Confederate Flag Outside His Home: ‘My Free Speech’
- Posted on February 12, 2012 at 8:09am by
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West St. Paul Councilman Ed Hansen said he's not taking down the Confederate flag that's hanging off his house. (Image source: Pioneer Press)
A Minnesota city councilman has a Confederate flag hanging outside his home and says he’s not taking it down, no matter what people say.
“It’s my house,” West St. Paul Councilman Ed Hansen told the Pioneer Press. “What’s the problem?”
Plenty, according to the city’s mayor, John Zanmiller. The flag, visible from a busy avenue and to visitors at a nearby park, also has the word “redneck” written across it.
“I don’t like it,” Zanmiller said. “Do I wish the flag wasn’t there? Yes.”
While the mayor acknowledged he is not aware of any complaints made to the city, he reached out to Hansen on Friday about taking it down. Hansen declined, and Zanmiller acknowledged the decision is ultimately Hansen’s.
West St. Paul City Councilman Ed Hansen (Image source: Pioneer Press)
Hansen, a first-term councilman elected in 2010, told the Pioneer Press he put the flag outside his house over the summer to no complaints. He said being an elected official should not matter one way or another.
“It represents sovereignty, individual rights and individual liberty,” he told the newspaper. “It’s my free speech, and that’s my choice.”
He dismissed any racist connotation the flag carries.
“I’m not a racist, and I don‘t think it’s racist,” he said. “People like to play the race card, though, when they don’t get their way.”
Jay Brunn, a developer who‘s building a house next to Hansen’s, claimed the flag caused one prospective buyer to shy away.
When informed of that, Hansen told the Pioneer Press: “Good. I don’t want him for a neighbor then. If people choose to be ignorant, that’s their own fault. They should study history. It represents true sovereignty.”
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Comments (257)
Miyegombo Bayartsogt
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 9:42amNever mind fighting for the flag. The real question is, how does Ed defend that weird wooden structure sticking outta the back of his house? Clearly, if you look at the facts, the real battle here is finishing off that deck disaster before doomsday. It looks like that porch was hit by some tropical earthquake that blew through the backyard. So, amid the wooden wreckage, why worry about the flag thing? What is it with people who get publicly offended by harmless things their neighbors display? All too often, average Americans bear this tyranny of offensive oversensitivity meekly. We all should be outraged any mayor would try and make a case for tearing Ol’ Dixie down. The flag ain’t the issue. Speech is the issue. Whenever some petty government hack thinks it‘s his duty to trample his neighbor’s First Amendment rights, that hack needs to be called out on it. We need get up. We need to stand up for our rights. For too long, like-minded, light-minded PC police have rode herd over us like we all a bunch of large, unevolved, clumsy mammals. We’ve become sheepish. Deep down we know that it’s wrong. Americans aren’t supposed to be spectators of stupidity or unfairness. We are born with the need to seek out argument and conflict for their own sake. The truth is on our side, we mustn’t lack the will.
Report Post »Thevoice
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 10:15amFirst look at the photo…I thought he had built his kids one of those swing forts..And something went Saturday afternoon construction wrong. Like maybe he had one too many Grain Belts…
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 11:17amIf they can enforce there will on private property,,Soon the atheists will be asking churches to remove the crosses from the tops of buildings because they can see them from a public road..fight any infringement on our rights..Little disputes like this set a precedent for far greater violations of our rights
Report Post »Rocky_biskit
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 12:27pmI like his deck … it looks a lot like mine!!
BTW, I am called a “redneck” all of the time and I am PROUD to be one!!
I live in New England and I have had an unregistered FORD pick up in my driveway and had a neighbor call the town to have me remove it. Had, the neighbor waited, another week before complaining, it would have been gone … I CANCELED the tow truck and moved it to the street for another year!!
Report Post »Ceefour
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 9:39amHow about the American flag?? It was flying in the North and the South long before the stars and bars flag and the Civil War. I‘d call that a flag of racism wouldn’t you??
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 9:53amSo what’s wrong with being racist? If you are attracted to a particular race of people for whatever reason, that makes you a racist. There is NOTHING WRONG WITH BEING A RACIST. I’m biased toward the white race, doesn’t mean I hate another.
Report Post »jandersn
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 9:58amHe could fly the first CSA national flag or Bonnie Blue instead of the replica of the CSA Naval Ensign (the battle flag was square shaped). I believe most of the complainers that cry racism are so ignorant that they would have no idea what they were looking at…And, the intent would remain the same.
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 10:02amAnd while I’m on a roll. I suspect that southern slave owners probably took pretty good care of their slaves. It was a sizable financial investment to purchase one and a even greater investment to house, cloth, and feed them. And if they got sick they had to pay a physician and possibly pay for surgery and aftercare. You would think Obama and the “you owe me” leaches would like to have slavery reinstated in the US. Oh wait…it is. It’s called welfare.
Report Post »The Woot
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 10:16amI’m not a racist, I hate everybody equally.
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 10:36amAhhhh NO, free speech will soon leave with you’re believe, stop be a cry baby
Report Post »Espada
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 10:52amDai-uy Crunch, while you’re at it, guide the whiners to the plight of whites in the North during the Industrial Revolution, concurrent with slavery days. Nothing in the South compares to the way industrial magnates like Mellon, Carnegie and other “famous” people treated the Irish and other immigrants in Yankeeland.
Check out “hotbunking families” paying most of their tiny salaries to factory owners for the privilege of occupying a cramped room 12 hours a day, off-shift, then all of them, children included, having to move out for the duration of their 12-hour shift work in crowded, unsafe conditions for the other occupants of the room, just off-shift, to move in for their twelve hours, seven days a week. Euphemistically called “economic rent” by the wealthy owners; called virtual slavery by anybody else.
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 11:03am@ CEEF , wat a moe , wat a cry baby , u don’t know anything about the truth but wat ur libral friends tell u , grow up or leave this country u idiot.
Report Post »1972Patriot
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 11:24amThe Confederate flag is no more racist than the population that refers to themselves as AFRICAN American… oh, wait / insert sarcasm… we may be on to something / close sarcasm. The Confederate flag is a symbol of self identity. Those who honor have no more a deep hidden desire to round up blacks and put them to work on a the plantation than the number of African American’s who have a desire to relocate to Africa.
Report Post »Commondamnsense
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 12:02pmBeing biased toward the white race would make you a bigot not a racist there is a difference. Racist does mean you hate or you atleast feel your race is superior and should rule other races. And for the record to correct you on 2 things, if a slave got too sick to work they were not taken care of, the slavemaster did not get a physician. It was cheaper to get a new slave than to try and get one back to working health. They were generally just worked til they died. And the second point well you do realize there are by far a larger amount of white people on welfare than blacks. For 2 reasons first black people make up less than 15% of the nations population, and 2 because of that very outlook many are willing do almost anything not to get on welfare so that it can’t be used against them. Are there some black people out there who abuse the system. Most certainly. But fewer of use means fewer of us to drain the resource. Look in the mirror if you want to see where most of the hand outs are going
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 12:26pm@Commondamnsense Not necessarily. Here’s an actual definition:
bigot – A person who is obstinately and unreasonably wedded to a particular religious creed, opinion, practice or ritual. Obstinately – firmly or stubbornly adhering to one’s purpose, opinion, etc.; not yielding to argument, persuasion or entreaty.
Bigotry implies an unsound, ignorant and blind attitude or behavior towards another belief or opinion without reason, relevant purpose, or respect for the differences confronted, or fiercely attached to one’s own, e.g. close minded, hard headed. I reject Satanism. I have my reasons and established opinions based on sound research and lots of information on why I reject the Church of Satan. That’s not bigotry. Now, if I were to hate, detest and avoid all people that speak Italian for no sound reason, or for illogically thinking that they will do harm to me, that’s bigoted, ignorant and stupid. Today’s culture is so liberal that the definition of words are thus also.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 4:11pmEven if the flag was racist, which I don’t know one way or the other, but even if it was… it‘s his right to be racist if he chooses and it’s his right to display his racism on HIS property.
End of story.
If the people of the town don’t like that, they are free to not vote him back into another term.
Report Post »ThePostman
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 9:38amMost assume that, had the south won the war, blacks would still be slaves. Not true. Blacks might be far better off today had the south won. At least blacks in the south.
This is a typical flaw in human thinking, that had one event occurred, some other event would obviously follow. It’s simply not true. In a similar vein, less Jews may have died if Hitler had not been conquered.
We can no more predict what would have happened had some event gone differently than we can predict the future.
Here’s another example. People assumed the federal reserve would smooth out the economic cycles, thus creating stability in the USA. How’s that been working out for us? Yet, people assume things would be far worse without the federal reserve, in spite of it acting to create booms and busts today.
People are afraid of a gold standard, because they perceive some protection from busts by the fed, they feel scared. Fear and greed drives man to do stupid things. In all of the above examples, man was driven by fear and greed.
Report Post »Miyegombo Bayartsogt
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 10:10amMost assume since the South went to war to keep their slaves, that if their cause had triumphed they’d have kept their slaves. Seems a safe assumption.
Report Post »mayihelpyou
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 10:12am“In a similar vein, less Jews may have died if Hitler had not been conquered.”
Report Post »No, they would have kept the slaughter houses with their gas showers and industrial sized ovens running until someone stopped them. Which is exactly what happened.
Espada
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 11:04amPlease refer to my post above about “cheap labor.” A slave cost $2,000; an owner took care of an investment… if an Irishman got caught in a gearcog in Andrew Carnegie’s factory, his body was thrown out onto the sidewalk, and the next in line was hired to take his place, at (maybe) a dollar a day (to feed clothe and shelter his family). Slavery was on the way out in the 1850′s as the Irish Potato Famine drove hundreds of thousands to the US, the South included… most of the early railroads in the South were built by Irish laborers before the war.
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 11:49am@MiyegomboBayartsogt Most assume the South went to war to keep their slaves, that it was all about keeping their slaves. Seems like a misinformed assumption. If you dare, here‘s a good read to challenge what’s been taught in good old Government run schools: http://www.amazon.com/South-Was-Right-Walter-Kennedy/dp/1565540247/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1329065349&sr=8-1
Report Post »riverdog1
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:18pmif the south had won slavery wouldn’t continue??? man that is one stupid comment.
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 9:37amNObody wants to read your crap. Take it the Huffpo. Loser!
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 9:36amGet lost spammer.
Report Post »carl1000
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 9:35amThe Confederate flag is no more a racist symbol than the American Flag. Slavery happened…and discrimination happened under the American flag just the same. Should we get rid of Southern State Flags and State Seals? They were also carried in the south at war, if not more than the Confederate flag. Slavery happened in America. that doesn’t mean America is Racist. When I see the Confederate flag or any flag from the Civil War, I see History or young men who fought. Just because someone sees “slavery” in a flag, that is their narrow mindedness. As far as this free speech thing – just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should. We have lost that in the USA. I have a right to be racist in the US… (I am not in any way), but is that right? Of course not. We need to wake up.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 9:48amYou do have the right to be a racist. You do not have the right to discriminate against someone for the color of thier skin. There is a difference you know.
The Confederate flag has been unfairly targeted as a racist symbol. He has the right to display it. He does not have the right to not serve someome at his restuarant (if he owned one) becuse they were of a different color. He could have a restaurant that had all kinds of Confederate artifacts and flags in it. he would have to serve every single person who walked into that restauranr, no matter their color…If he opened that restaurant in a black neighborhood, he would probably not have a lot of business, it would probably be burned to the ground…Why? Because people do not understand freedom..
My point is this. People do not understand the freedoms they live under. Just because something offends you does not give you the right to destroy it or the person who offends you. You would be taking away thier freedom and liberty.Just dont do business with them is the answer…
Our nation will heal when someone can open up a Confederate restaurant in a minority neighborhood or a minority can display their black or ethnic heritage in a totally white neighborhood without an outrage or without name calling and violence…. Until then we have no business saying we know anything about the Constitution…Because you do not.
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 12:09pm“Our nation will heal when someone… a minority can display their black or ethnic heritage in a totally white neighborhood without an outrage or without name calling and violence”
This already happens, all the time. Around here, there’s a few Latino restaurants, Korean stores, etc. in a majority white neighborhood. Whites haven’t harassed or publicly complained about them. Heck, we even have a few large Latino (or other minority) concentrated cities nearby. And unfortunately, they’re the ones, according to the crime reports (by the Police Departments and Newspapers), that commit the most violence and outrage. That’s not my opinion, it’s fact. For example, a look at my County’s Police Department website, shows that about 65-73% of the warrants out for arrest are for folks with Hispanic last names. That’s a fact. How are race relations here in America? Anything goes, as long as whitey gets blamed. I’m pretty sure the double standards and hypocrisy by the Left corrupts and distorts the truth to their advantage.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 9:33amYou say you believe in the Constitution until someone tries to burn it in front of you….Then you want to take away their free speech. That means you do not understand the Constitution at all. Freedom of speech is protected even if the Constitution is the paper being burned.
The Connstitution must be imprinted on your hearts and defended with your entire being or we have no chance as a Nation That stands forever. Of course there are very few people in our Country or in our Government that even follow the Constitution. It is just useless fodder off thier lips. Very sad…
Ron Paul 2012
Report Post »robert
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 9:32am“It represents sovereignty, individual rights and individual liberty,” he told the newspaper. “It’s my free speech, and that’s my choice.”
It does indeed represent sovereignty. That is a fact.
What he should do instead of assuring that he isn’t a racist is to turn the tables on the hysterical mayor and accuse him of being a hater of states rights, sovereignty and individual freedom, as well as free speech.
People are too willing to go into defensive mode when they’re accused of racism when almost always the person levelling the charge is the racist, especially if they’re black.
Take a look at another story on here about the zombie-looking Jackson who said he voted for Obama, because he’s black, and this is after he accused the Tea Party of being racist on absolutely no evidence, and he does so, because he can’t stand to see mostly white people getting together to push for certain political objectives. As the term is used nowadays Jackson is a racist for complaining about the Tea Party. So is the dopey-looking Morgan Freeman.
Whenever they say something like that they should be challenged to prove they aren’t racist against the Tea Party.
Nothing these radical leftist gargoyles say should intimidate anybody.
Report Post »Parnell3rd
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 9:31amOh, I wish I was in the land of cotton, (wait I am! 8-)
Report Post »watashbuddyfriend
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 9:28amThanks Ed Hansen, move over John Zanmiller! Let Freedom reign!
Report Post »shagstar
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 9:27amyou people should work out here in the oil patches with us,,we don‘t have to worry about any of those ******* prog’s trying any of their complaints around us!! we will just spank em with a spud wrench and send them back home to lay down next to their dish! lol
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 9:21am.
You Go Boy!
Like we say down South, They Fly Their X (Malcom), and We Fly Ours………
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 9:39amTo me, it says, I am from the South, and I am proud of my heritage.
The South is the victim of too much harassment and accusations of being ignorant, red-necked, hicks.
It is the repeated attacks of that nature that drive people to be even more visible with the pride in their heritage.
Other people get to be proud of their heritage, why not Southerners?
Just because of something people did a century ago? B.S.
We buy pirate flags for our kids. We take them to see pirate movies. We buy pirate DVD’s.
Report Post »Was there ANYTHING good about pirates?
The MOTIVE is what matters, and it is beyond us to judge motive.
“Judge not that ye be not judged”
Just because you have a chip on your shoulder, does not give you the right to infringe upon anothers freedom of speech.
Freedom of Speech is a primary Constitutionally protected RIGHT.
HANDS OFF !
Sirfoldallot
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 10:39amThats right ,,, alot of cry babys out there.
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 9:15amGood for him!
Report Post »I’ll gladly move next door to that man. When the PC cry babies see my flags 75 feet in the air on my tower they will have even more to cry about. Fly them where everyone can see them and dare anyone to come against it.
psychguy
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 9:04amWith his attitude, he would certainly get my vote and my help with his campaign! Now if we could only get a president and a congress to understand, agree with, and adhere to what this guy is stating. Wow!
Report Post »momsense
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 8:59amAbsolutely correct. We have too much inpout from the blood sucking minorities and their supporters and not enough from Patriots.
Report Post »Choctaw25
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 9:25amAMEN, Mom
Report Post »Commondamnsense
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 11:53amWhat makes you think that minorities can’t be patriots. Statements like this piss me off to no end. While he does have a right to fly his flag which I could care less about. With that same freedom others have a right to not like it.
Report Post »Dismayed Veteran
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 1:36pmCommon
I agree with you. The medic who saved me from bleeding out was black. Do I hate blacks? No. Do I believe the New Black Panther Party is dangerous? Yes. Does that make me a racist? I don’t think so.
Forget the flag. It represented a country that no longer exists and an army defeated in the field. It affirms the failure of a Confederation as a form of government. Remember American History. Our country was first a Confederation (Articles of Confederation). The Constitution was created because it was recognized that the federal government need to be stronger. Now we have gone too far with the central government and should return to the Constitution not the Article of Confederation.
Report Post »JackSprat
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 8:56amThe ‘thought police’ are alive and at work. Everything not pro-Obama is racist, it is sad that the 1st Amendment is under attack by the left. The 2nd amendment is under considerable pressure along with our whole “Constitution”. What I have noticed since Obama’s inauguration is the tremendous amount of reverse racism against whites. You will probably notice that I will be labeled a racist for even mentioning the above. Tyranny is alive and well in America, Reagan said we were possibly one generation away from it. We are there and we don’t even know it. Hang on for the ride!
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 9:01amAffirmative Action was the first institutionalized reverse racism of record.
Report Post »AB5r
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 8:49amJay Brunn, a developer who‘s building a house next to Hansen’s, claimed the flag caused one prospective buyer to shy away. When informed of that, Hansen told the Pioneer Press: “Good. I don’t want him for a neighbor then…”
It is sort of neat the way the flag functions as a sort of scarecrow. That person would have made a horrible neighbor, but now they are gone, off to live next to someone else and make their life miserable instead.
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 12:06pmYep it proved that the prospective buyer was probably a racist. If you let the word Redneck and a Confederate Flag scare you, then you had created preconceived notions about the person next door. I was raised in Florida, the Confederate Flag did not portray racism to me, it was the flag of the south. Hell there are a many blacks who fly the Confederate Flag today. There were blacks who fought for the south because they believed in sovereignty of the south, not to preserve slavery. The Northerners, Liberals, Progressives, Sharptons, Jacksons, and the Van Joneses of the world have been lying all these years and people have bought into the lie.
Report Post »qpwillie
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 8:49am“When informed of that, Hansen told the Pioneer Press: “Good. I don’t want him for a neighbor then.”
Best line in the story!! If we could get that attitude in our presidential candidates, we’d be well on our way to restoring this country.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 9:01amI have to agree with you on this one willie and that developer complaining the flag turned away a potential buyer could be angling for a law suit.
Report Post »friedwatermellon
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 8:36amI don‘t like to see Blacks wearing European style clothing or straightening their hair because it’s an insult to Whites..
Report Post »Blacks hate Whites but they want everything they have, which is normal for a race that is basically ignorant.
proliance
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 9:15amNope, no racists here. Please move along, nothing to see here…
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 9:19amI would call you an idiot, but I dont want to insult idiots. Could you be any more racist? You are living in the 1960s….
Report Post »OBAMA IS A FOUL EVIL TRAITOR
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 10:10am@Friedwatermellon
FRIEDWATERMELLON IS RIGHT, further how can any of you call him a racist or disparage his post if you TRULY believe in Free Speech? The Black CULTURE is non productive and parasitical in nature. Where are their Great Scientists? Inventors? Producers? Rap “Music” doesn’t count. If you all are too PC or too BLIND and in DENIAL to realize and acknowledge the TRUTH even to yourselves then you are USELESS to America and Freedom!!!
Report Post »barber2
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 11:12amFRIED is a Troll who just joined the Blaze today. He is a Jason Levin planted to make Blaze commenters look like the racists that the Left really are ( like Samuel Jackson – an honest racists )
Report Post »barber2
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 2:35pmFRIED and OBAMA are both Trolls.
Report Post »auntbea
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 8:29amOh, for heaven’s sake! Everyone should get a life!!
Report Post »DD313
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 8:27amMaybe Jesse Ventura and Al Franken will back this guy up.
Report Post »drago
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 8:26amGlad to see someone stand up for their rights.As for my freedoms, whether it be speach or the right to keep and bear arms i say, try and take em……
Report Post »hi
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 8:24amJust because we can doesn’t mean we should. Most think it is racist. He should ask whether his actions are honoring God.
Report Post »hidden_lion
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 8:30amMost think it is racist because the media always portrays it that way. Using that logic, i hope you don’t go to any tea party rallies, as the media says those are racist too. This councilman should be applauded for standing up for his rights and for acknowledging what that flag actually represents and not what the liberals say it does.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 8:42amHI, when a football player calls tails before the game, you’d call him anti-heads. Give it up, minorities have worn it out.
Report Post »StonyBurk
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 8:54amHI –I like your reply–Honoring God is key. But I must ask is God honored by most Americans today?
Report Post »We have-for the most part and I do not suggest everyone has forgotten God. But we are no longer compared to that nation under God that caused the US supreme Court decide in 1892 “this is a Christian nation…’ And by far my experience has been many –many of those who insist the stars and bars is racist–or even unacceptable–know nothing of the South .It is not the flag that is anything other than what is ascribed by those seeing it. Gen.Colin Powell is on record as saying our American flag is nothing more that strips of brightly colored cloth -and desecration a protected right.Same seems true of any flag.I am more opposed to that rainbow flag of a queer nation of usurpers–or the baby blue Soviet communist inspired United Nations flag than I am the Stars and Bars of the Southern Cross.
progressiveslayer
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 9:04amHI Most think it‘s racist because they’ve been taught that myth in public schools and even if it was a vile racist flag he still has that right to fly it.
Report Post »sparkspeaks
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 9:21amHonoring God, does not mean becoming some left-winged, progressive, ideologue’s butt-wipe or some one who is pushed around and beat down by the past, or someone made to fear the future by who ever is the next KING of the HILL. Honoring God, begins in the heart, it proceeds from the mouth, and it is lived out in faith, not in a groveling state of mire produced by the loudest, finger pointing, tongue lasher.
Report Post »If people don’t like his flag….look away!
Captain Crunch
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 9:34amThat rational is nothing but a reflection of the brainwashing you have been subjected to.
Report Post »God isn’t honored by being a wimp and caving to pressure from the world to conform. If that was the case then Jesus would have conformed to the Devel’s temptation, the pressure from the religous leaders, and the demands of Pilot to answer his questioning. Jesus wasn’t a coward, did not conform, and God was glorified.
Choctaw25
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 9:42amHI; I would much rather look at the rebel flag than I would look at the butt crack of some punk kids walking around in the mall without a belt and his pants down below his butt, trying to look macho.
Report Post »But, (pun intended) I’m sure you are okay with this, or you are going to teach your son to dress like this or desire that your daughter bring one of them home.
Racists thrive when intelligent people refuse to address the problem with the true facts.
barber2
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 2:39pmAs Saint Paul said in his First Letter to the Corinthians: “Avoid giving offense, whether to the Jews or Greeks or the church of God…”
Report Post »J_Ruben_Kincaid
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 4:33pmWhile I generally agree with what you say. I think its true that Jesus himself was known to upset the establishment. I think this guy is on solid ground with the Lord here.
Report Post »piper60
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 8:13amThis guy lives in the land of 10,000 idiots(Minnesota), and he EXPECTS to have his free speech rights respected? lolololololololololololololololololololol! I lived in that area for 7 years, so I know of which I speak.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 8:32amAl Franken proves your point.
Report Post »friedwatermellon
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 8:39amWell that’s because the federal government put a half million Black Somalian parasites in to the state. Now the crime has gone through the roof and they’re bleeding the hard working American taxpayers.
Report Post »workinghard
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 8:46amJust because we have Mark Dayton as a governor doesn’t mean we are all idiots. Let me remind you that even though we allow idiots like Dayton, Franken and Walz, we also gave you Michele Bachmann.
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 9:42am@piper60– Thanks for leaving.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 8:13am“Minn. City Councilman Defends Confederate Flag Outside His Home”
How did we come to this point where a man must defend his right to free speech? The evil ones are those who would take away his rights. I say, burn a cross right next to the flag in defiance… just to prove a point.
Report Post »Legal Immigrant
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 8:59amRights must be defended and guarded jealously. Lest they be lost.
If you’re keen on someone burning a cross? You go first.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 9:10amI agree Jerk you should be able to light a cross just to prove a point,unfortunately you would be illegally prosecuted for a ‘hate crime’.The federal government has been trampling all over our first amendment right for many years.The ‘hate crime’ concept is BS and unconstitutional and is used by the government as a weapon against the people for exercising our first amendment right.
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 4:43pmI fully support Ed Hansen’s right to free speech. Don’t vote for Ed Hansen, he’s an idiot and a creep. That’s my right of free speech.
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