thedailysheeple.com / Lily Dane / June 26th, 2015
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Last week, a devastating tragedy occurred: a white man walked into one of the nation’s oldest black churches, opened fire, and killed nine people.
The suspect, Dylann Roof, has been arrested and charged with nine counts of murder and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.
Roof has been labeled a “right-wing terrorist,” and photos of him holding a Confederate flag and sitting on a car with a “confederate states of America” license plate have emerged.
Two days after Roof’s arrest, a website called Last Rhodesian was “discovered” by two independent writers. The site contains a page titled Text which is being a called a “racist manifesto.” While the identity of the site’s domain was reportedly masked the day after it was registered, law enforcement officials say they have confirmed Roof is the owner. However, there are reasons to be skeptical of that claim because of how the site was “found” and other details surrounding the content on the website.
But government officials and politicians can’t let a serious crisis go to waste. They have a proclivity for using (and orchestrating) tragic events like mass shootings to justify implementing new laws and banning harmless, inanimate objects.
In addition to cries for more gun control (what else is new?), the Charleston tragedy has inspired a call to ban another item: the Confederate flag, and any and all items emblazoned with it.
Controversy over the Confederate flag is nothing new, as many see it as a symbol of oppression and racism. But as Joshua Krause explains in his piece In Defense of the Confederate Flag, there are abundant misconceptions about the history of the flag, the hypocrisy of hating it and not the American flag, and what the flag means to different people today.
Democrat Jim Webb, a former Virginia senator who has long been a historian of the Civil War (and in particular the Confederacy), said the Confederate flag has “wrongly” been used for racist purposes for years, reports CNN:
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