When Will the Censorship End ?

Outrageous! I'm deeply offended! She needs to remove that bikini immediately.

On this point I concur with ya Snidely.

We need to leave the military battles to the people who are in charge of the military. The people that have hands on what happening. Not a bunch of assholes sitting in Washington DC calling the shots. Let the Police do their jobs with whatever force they feel necessary at the time. We need to have the scare asses that feel this life in politics is coming to an end just start listening the majority and forget the small individual groups and their demands on censorship. Stop worrying about small problems and start worrying about the entire country and what going on. . A finally the best tow things get rid of the Supreme Court life terms and while they are at it eliminate the ACLU (biggest shit stirrers in the Nation. Unlike OBAMA leave the drug dealers in prison but make the sentences longer not shorter. They destroy way too many lives and families to be put back in society. Last but not least do not consider John Kerry for the Nobel Peace Prize his stories about his purple hearts is more than the body can endure enough. What was the person that nominated him for in the first place. Now there is a trivia question who in the individual that nominated John Kerry for his purple hearts.

jatki99 underestimates the goals of "Progressives" in America.

In the 6th Century, Buddhists in what is now Afghanistan carved two statues of the Buddha out of sandstone cliffs, one 180-feet-tall and the other 120-feet-tall.
More recently, in 2001AD, the Taliban declared the images idols, . . . and dynamited them to rubble.
Ref: BBC

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Now, as The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports, ". . . the Atlanta chapter of the NAACP has called for the removal of the giant carving that depicts three leaders of the Confederate States of America on Stone Mountain." The world’s largest high-relief sculpture is over 90 feet tall and 190 feet wide.

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The NAACP chapter’s Richard Rose told WSB-TV that he knows it’s a losing battle, but disappearing the Confederacy remains on his wish list."

"disappearing the Confederacy" ? ? ? This really is the foundation of The Ministry of Truth in America. "Disappear" the memory, . . . and, . . . poof ! It never even happened.

However, cooler heads may yet prevail.
Artist Mack Williams has petitioned the Georgia Legislature not to destroy the sculpture, . . . but to add Atlanta's most beloved hip-hop duo alongside Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson on the mountain. Mr Williams suggests "that Daddy Fat Sacks and Three Stacks should be carved riding in a Cadillac (as is their wont). This will help the new carving blend nicely with the Confederates who are on horseback.”

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DonDiego finds this a most satisfactory compromise.

Disappearing Saddam:

Leave it to you to compare a tyrant dictator with an historic and very important part of our US history. Not everyone views the Confederacy as an enemy (only the people with their slavery blinders on), they just happened to come up short in the conflict. The result is a Fed govt. that wields entirely too much power over this ountry and that's not really how this country was meant to be.

I wouldn't consider it. The traitors on that rock are responsible for more American deaths than:

Saddam
plus
Ho Chi Minh
plus
Tojo
plus
Mussolini
plus
Hitler
plus
Kaiser Wilhelm
plus
Osama

The slave owning and whipping Bobby Lee belongs in a museum, but not on a shrine.

I guess this means we're going to have to blow George and Tommy J off of Mount Rushmore.

DUCK TEDDY!

DonDiego objects.

The US War of Northern Aggression was not unique, but unusual in that the South wanted nothing more than to secede from the Union, . . . as opposed to conquering the North and overthrowing the leadership of the United States. DonDiego opines there are arguments suggesting this is not "treason".

Nonetheless, after the War, the former President of the Confederacy was, indeed. indicted for Treason.
Ref: The New York Times

However, President Davis was not convicted of, nor even tried for treason.

From Encyclopedia Virginia :
The government charged Davis with treason against the United States for organizing and arming the 1864 military invasions of Maryland and the District of Columbia during the American Civil War (1861–1865). The defendant demanded a trial as the best forum for proving the constitutionality of secession, and the government requested numerous delays to prepare its case. Although the indictment was finished in March 1868, the [President] Johnson impeachment further delayed the case. The court finally heard preliminary motions in December 1868, when the defense asked for a dismissal claiming that the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution already punished Davis by preventing him from holding public office in the future and that further prosecution and punishment would violate the double jeopardy restriction of the Fifth Amendment. The court divided in its official opinion and certified the question to the United States Supreme Court. Fearing the court would rule in favor of Davis, Johnson released an amnesty proclamation on December 25, 1868, issuing a pardon to all persons who had participated in the rebellion.

n.b.:
i. President Davis was not indicted for the Secession or even firing on Ft. Sumpter; he was indicted for "invading" Maryland and D.C in 1864.
ii. Having been indicted, President Davis "demanded a trial as the best forum for proving the constitutionality of secession, and the government requested numerous delays to prepare its case." The Government of the United States was concerned that secession might be found to be a legitimate right of the States within the United States of America.
iii. "Fearing the court would rule in favor of [President] Davis [i.e. his request for dismissal on the grounds of double jeopardy], [President] Johnson released an amnesty proclamation on December 25, 1868, . . . absolv[ing] former Confederate President Jefferson Davis of any guilt for participation in the Civil War.
iv. All who participated in the rebellion were legally pardoned.
v. President Jefferson Davis is not a traitor. All who participated in the rebellion were legally pardoned.
QED
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Although in a civil debate it should not be necessary, DonDiego hereby declares his opposition to slavery by anyone, of anyone, in any place, . . . so as to shield himself from any personal attacks, as are commonly found on the internets.