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Amazon Ordered by the Federal Government to Stop Selling Confederate Flag

Posted: Jun 24, 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?=2OA5geZUU4

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The real 2nd amendment - not the NRA--s/b new thread

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NRA followers are being duped and robbed.

The notion that the framers original intent was to arm all citizens with whatever arms they wanted so that they could violently overthrow the government is ahistorical. That myth was recently manufactured to justify possession of assault rifles and other weapons of war. Interpreting the second amendment as affirming the right of individuals who are not members of a militia to bear arms is something that was not established until the 2008 District of Columbia v Heller case where conservative judicial activists voted 5-4 to overturn over a century of judicial precedent, and redefine the amendment as affirming an individual right to bear arms. Even so, as a part of the majority opinion Justice Scalia reaffirmed that “the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited.” Adding that “...longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms" were not unconstitutional.

http://www.examiner.com/article/the-original-intent-of-the-2nd-amendment-was-not-to-facilitate-citizen-rebellion

I think most who understand history know this. - XX

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As a proponent of right to bear arms, I also understand that in no way was this ever to include assault rifles. Why any citizen feels the need to arm him/herself with an assault rifle is beyond me. I completely agree with the right to bear arms, responsibly, and to be responsible, gun control is necessary. Background checks should absolutely be necessary for anyone to obtain a gun license or purchase a gun, that just seems like a given, to me.

As far as the NRA, well, not all of us gun owners are duped by nor members of the NRA. I personally feel the NRA is wholly irresponsible. Oh, and I am a moderate conservative. :)

Assault vs hunting rifle - fedup

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An "assault" rifle is just a semi-automatic rifle, no different than any hunting rife. It is not an automatic weapon. The only difference is appearance. One finger pull equals one shot.

The term "assault rifle" is used to scare people. Movies get this wrong - all the time too with the sound it

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makes. It done for a purpose.

The second amendment is #2 for a reason, to protect people from - an overbearing government, that's why

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governments always try to take guns away.

I used to belong to the NRA, but they just keep sending me junk in the mail so I stopped. Not all gun owners belong to the NRA, there are other organizations.

I think some people justify having bigger weapons since the government does, they can to protect themselves. I'm not saying I do, I'm just saying that's another point of view.

People should be careful what they wish for. I know Obama hates the second amendment. If that goes, it's just a matter of time for the others. Japan didn't invade because they knew people had guns and knew how to use them.

How do you know Obama hates the second amendment? - nm

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And Japan didn't invade because the people had guns - HOWL!

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Okay, so that was my initial reaction, then I looked it up---and apparently it is a confabulation of the gun nuts. This does not check out at all with Pearl Harbor historians.

http://www.factcheck.org/2009/05/misquoting-yamamoto/

link to no where? it just asks what I want - to watch.

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xx

Not sure why link isn't working, will post again. - Secondtry

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OAZ5geZUU4

Here's a link I made for it through donotlink.com - sm

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if you'd prefer not to give the idiots who made and uploaded it any more clicks.

http://www.donotlink.com/fod4

It's kind of sadly hilarious, in a way ... sure, the "info" provided by an obviously offshore Amazon associate is all the evidence needed to confirm yet another ridiculous conspiracy theory.

So did the federal government also order Walmart, Sears, and eBay to do the same? Conservatives are so abashed to see their beloved free market and capitalism actually at work ... but it can't be that, no, it must be the gubmint instead.

I think I found it. - sm

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Sounds like this guy called a customer service rep. He finally dogs her enough and says "Did you get a request from the government?"

She finally says this is from the government who is not allowing us to sell the Confederate flag.

Customer service will say just about anything if you won't let them refer you to the legal department, et cetera.

I call this is a lie. We don't even know if he was really talking to Amazon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OAZ5geZUU4

oh, I forgot, it is by GODLIKEPRODUCTIONS--hehehe

Pastor Pinckney voted in favor of the Conferate flag - placing the flag at its

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current location.

File that under an inconvenient truth.

Surprise-that's half the story---compromise - vote moved it off the capitol

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The alternative was not voting for the compromise and keeping it on the statehouse?

Don't believe there was a vote for removing it entirely with the backwards racist South Carolina Congress majority.

The media is blanketing the news with "racist flag" - but look through the smoke screen

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It's an opportunist attack on conservatives.

Mohammed owns slaves. Perhaps we should consider - what to do with that flag???

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xx

Someone should tell Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam - leader that, he says we

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need to "put the American Flag down"

It's the left's Cultural Revolution. With everything named after Robert Byrd - in WV, a Democrat and KKK member,

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wonder how they'll handle that!

I'm sure they'll go after Mt. Rushmore or the American Flag next.

Well, sure they'll go after Mt. Rushmore. They have to make room - for Obama's fact up there

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They're already trying to take the American flag down. After all, SCOTUS started that deal when they allowed people to walk on it, spit on it, burn it, and rip it apart as "freedom of speech" which is crap.

What other country do you know allows that to happen to their national flag?

What stupid people don't realize is that for every historical item, for every American memorial or historical truth taken away means ISIS was truthful when they stated their flag would fly over the White House.

Someone should bring up the Draft Riots in Yankee territory - since the South is being

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attacked. The North wasn't as "lilly white" pardon the pun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_draft_riots

And they passed fast track trade authority while - the media focused on the flag

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controversy.

What part of "freedom of the press" is confusing? - sm

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Pretending like Congress got away with one while no one was paying attention is not exactly what happened here.

The media actually covered both issues, and anyone suggesting otherwise is just media bashing in their usual fashion.

This is a parody (sort of) about banning red, white and blue - crayons because they can

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be used to color a flag.

As part of the stunning collapse of thought diversity and the dominating demand of absolute belief system obedience in America, Walmart has announced that in addition to banning sales of the Confederate flag, it is also banning sales of red, white and blue colored crayons, colored pens and magic markers. Why? Because they can be used to draw the Confederate flag! (Yes, this article is a partial parody, as indicated in the title.)

A ban on blank sheets of paper is expected soon, too, because paper can be used to draw racist images as well.

"Walmart does not wish to give tools to children that might be used to create offensive representations of inappropriate ideas," touted a Walmart spokesperson.

"Leading retailers including Walmart (WMT), Amazon (AMZN), Sears (SHLD) and eBay (EBAY) have now said they'll stop selling Confederate flag merchandise," reports Yahoo News. "EBay announced its ban on Confederate flag sales a short while after that, saying 'we believe it has become a contemporary symbol of divisiveness and racism.' Amazon didn't respond for this article, but it announced its own ban about two hours after eBay did."

This "mad rush" to total thought conformity exemplifies to absolute panic exhibited by spineless corporations whose executives tremble with the fear over the thought of not instantly falling in line with whatever socially-pressured craze is sweeping the nation at the moment. They're practically stampeding over themselves to see who can ban more Confederate merchandise the quickest.

Now the people who want to burn the Confederate flag can't even find them for sale!
As you might expect, there's a massive supply and demand problem being created by this mad rush toward absolute social obedience and conformity. With the announcement of the "National Burn the Confederate Flag Day" on Facebook, all the people who are desperately trying to BUY the Confederate flag so they can BURN the flag are discovering their free speech is being suppressed because companies won't sell them the flags.

Dang it, man! How am I supposed to burn this flag if no one will sell it to me?

So now Walmart, Sears, Amazon and other companies are suppressing the free speech of the obedient activists who want to show how incredibly "appropriate" they are by burning the Confederate flag on Youtube. If only they could find such flags in the first place, they could accomplish this amazing feat of heroism. Because lighting up a piece of cloth takes real balls, you see.

And so all these people, it turns out, are having to draw their own Confederate flags, which of course makes them outright racists and bigots. After all, who would draw the Confederate flag other than an obvious racist hater psycho? To draw these flags, people are rushing out to Walmart to purchase crayons and magic markers, especially in the colors of red, white and blue -- the very colors used in the Confederate flag as well as the United States flag, which will no doubt be next on the list of flags to burn.

Thus, Walmart has come to realize that people are visiting its stores and buying red, white and blue magic markers to draw "unfortunate symbols of hate" which the Walmart corporation can never allow to happen, because that might invite vicious waves of robot-automated attacks on Twitter, which Walmart executives mistakenly think are tweeted by real people.

So as of today, less than two weeks away from July 4th, Independence Day, Walmart will be banning the sales of all red, white and blue crayons and magic markers. Bans on blank sheets of paper will be next, followed by a nationwide ban on the very colors currently known as "red" and "blue," both of which will be reassigned via trans-coloration to the more politically correct names of "Earth rust" and "climate sky."

Walmart thought police are standing by
Thought police will be standing by at Walmart with further instructions that prohibit items you've purchased at Walmart from being used in any way whatsoever that anyone anywhere in the world might, for their own reasons, find anywhere close to offensive.

This is hilarious! I like this site. I get their newsletters. - NM

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NM

Wow, I just found out in the NYT Times that I'm more of a threat - than Muslim radicals, since I'm

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a right-wing conservative.

Do they realize that ISIS beheads people or drowns them while filming it?

The smokescreen is the ignorant rhetoric suggesting that it's all liberals driving it. - sm

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Rush Limbaugh claimed that liberals' true mission in removing the Confederate flag in South Carolina is "destroying the South as a political force."

How gullible does one have to be to blame liberals for the actions of their fellow conservatives that are splashed across television sets across the country? It's high time that the righties stopped buying into the rhetoric they're hearing versus what we're all seeing with our very own eyes.

The Governor of South Carolina is not a liberal. Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott of South Carolina are not liberals. The governor of Alabama who removed the flag from public grounds by his order is not a liberal. Mitt Romney who tweeted out his support for removal of the flag from public grounds is not a liberal (well, that one is debatable since Romney has taken both sides of just about every issue, I'll concede that point). Jeb Bush who had already removed the Confederate battle flag in Florida and relegated it to a museum long ago is not a liberal. I could go on.

What part is confusing here? The actual smokescreen here is advancing the fallacy that lefties are the only ones driving this and that the left will be attacking the United States Stars and Stripes next. It's pure fantasy and utter nonsense when the facts of this issue are not exactly hidden from public view.

Hey, any opportunity is a good one! (And yes, - that flag SCREAMS racism.)

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Lincoln set the stage how to act. When Robert E. Lee surrendered, - he was treated with respect.

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Not marched off to some reeducation camp like in some Communist country.

How far the Republic has fallen.

I don't think you can reason someone out of something they - were never "reasoned" into

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as the saying goes, they're just being spoon-fed by the MSM.

Personal reponsibility and delayed gratification, two - traits that are identified with a

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maturing adult. Sadly, I don't see too much of this today. Exhibit A: Barack Obama.

Can you imaging this happening today? I think not.

No Amazon was not ordered by the Federal Govt - anything of the sort

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How is that ridiculous recording proof of anything except a clueless customer service person not from America, probably a place where the govt actually does order such things.

Really?

As other posters have pointed out, did they order all the other retailers to stop selling it as well?

This Politics board is not like Fox News, people actually want a little proof before they believe something. Probably Fox News has been tediously playing this stupid recording for their avid believers, but something to corroborate this would be nice.

I'm sure it would be playing on all the real news stations if the govt was indeed ordering retailers to stop selling confederate flags.

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