Comments by "Kim O\x27Brien" (@kimobrien.) on "Shop owner can't remove Confederate flag" video.

  1. It represents segregation like George Wallace said, "Segregation Today, Segregation Tomorrow, Segregation Forever."
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  2. Fly whatever flag you want but accept the baggage that goes with it. The Confederate battle flag shouldn't be flown on government or state property or inserted into state flags. Do you see a whole bunch of monuments to General and President Grant in the Northern States? No. But how many monuments do you have to General Lee throughout the eleven Southern states? You realize that Arlington National cemetery was built on the General Lee's family property for a reason. To remind every generation of all the lives lost because of his treasonous insubordination. He was treated with respect when he surrendered and his hungry men were fed a meal by their union counterparts. He was never tried or jailed. His citizenship was revoked but restored with his voting rights a few years after the wars end. He refused to sanction a guerilla campaign at the time of surrender. Something that would be later launched by southern democrats first as red shirts and later the KKK. I understand that the universal soldier has little choice but to follow commands but most of those monuments throughout the south are to civil war officers. Many who resigned their USA commissions to become CSA officers. Officers who should of had a much better understanding of the issues than a poor dirt farmer called up from the State militia. One thing I bet you don't see in the eleven states is monuments to those officers who stayed loyal to the US government and politicians who voted against secession.
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  3. Years ago when you got a union job you got fully paid health care, no deductions, no copays along with eyeglasses and dental. You got supplemental unemployment that paid the rest of your wage if you were laid off. You got paid holidays. Not holidays where if you work you get paid. You got time and a half for over 8 hours a day not 40 a week. You got automatic overtime at time and a half for Saturday and double time for Sunday or a holiday. You got a bonus for working nights. Now a days the want to fire you for pissing to long in the toilet. You come to work sick because if you use all you sick days that's a reason to fire you.
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  4. It is speech and what it is saying is lets keep the civil war going or get it restarted. If I were the business involved I would put up a sign explain exactly what that flag means, who the property owners is and how to contact him or her.
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  5. Congress did not recognize Confederate Soldiers as war dead. It made increased pensions available to Spanish American war veterans and widows and children of US Civil war veterans and children and widows of Confederate Veterans. Their is no pardon included but a Confederate soldier could seek a pardon by applying for one some time after the civil war as was legislated by Congress. General Lee asked for one and got one but that didn't make or allow him to become a union soldier nor did he get to collect a pension.
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  6. Just more keyboard warriors and xbox360 experts.
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  7. That is just more baseless propaganda that makes the Russian's responsible for everything perceived as going wrong elsewhere.
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  8. President Trump should send out the US Marine expeditionary force to take down every monument to CSA General Lee, CSA General Stonewall Jackson, CSA General Bedford Forrest and every other monument to CSA officers throughout the country. If they can pull down Saddam Hussein monuments in Iraq they the can certainly pull down monuments to terrorist in the United States. Start with the cradle of the Confederacy in Montgomery Alabama and finish with The last Confederate capital in Danville, VA.
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  9. Mexico is a country plus plenty of people fly the flags of their county of national origin like the Irish, Polish, and others. CSA battle flag should not fly on government or state property. You fly it. You own the baggage that comes with it.
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  10. He could put up a sign denouncing the Son's and Daughters of Veterans of the Confederacy in a statement like, "The Civil war was over in 1865 but some people like the Sons of the Confederate Veterans, owners of the adjacent land, flag and flag pole refuse to accept its outcome and continue to rub salt in the nation's wounds."
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  11. He could put up a sign denouncing the Son's and Daughters of Veterans of the Confederacy in a statement like, "The Civil war was over in 1865 but some people like the Sons of the Confederate Veterans, owners of the adjacent land, flag and flag pole refuse to accept its outcome and continue to rub salt in the nation's wounds."
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  12. Takata and Ninjabear Same thinking resulted in the end of reconstruction. The American Bourgeois as represented by the former radical Republicans abandoned the former slaves in the face of what would become KKK terror for the election of their candidate Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876. It has become the task of the former slaves and their supporters from the working class of all colors to stamp out what remains of segregation and Jim Crow-ism. Business large or small is to timid to take on the task preferring social stability over social equality.
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  13. The Democratic party was clearly the party of the KKK in the South. They were known as the Dixiecrats. In 1968 The Presidential Election saw something happen similar to the 1860 election. The Southern Dixiecrats chose George Wallace and he ran as the American Independent Party candidate and got a number of electoral votes in the South. Hubert Humphrey ran as the Democrat and Richard Nixon ran as the Republican. Nixon won and so did the first black Senator since reconstruction Massachusetts Republican Edward Brooke. The next time Nixon ran on a southern strategy so as to undercut another George Wallace or Dixiecrat run. Many Dixiecrats switched parties because of the concessions the Black movement won from Lyndon Johnson (D-TX). The thing about the new southern Republican party is that it is also a party that elected two Indian American Governors. Republican Supreme court nominees also voted to overturn the Texas abortion law in Roe v. Wade.
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  14. When you get down to it today the Republican's are now the majority party. Something the Democrats had been starting with the Roosevelt administration after his taking the reins of power during the great depression. Both Parties are still in crisis from the effects of the great recession. The Burniecrats seek to take the over the Democrats with their political revolution and the Republicans are split into rino's and tea partiers. The Republicans have elected two Indian American governors in the South so I would think that the old George Wallace Dixiecrats turned Republican group has left history down there. The Bush family heralds from Connecticut being only transplanted Southerners. Florida is filled with New England retirees and Texas's growth means its added people had to come from elsewhere. I don't think you're going to find anymore sharecroppers in Mississippi and Alabama either. Trump himself started out as a New York liberal now turned Republican conservative while Hillary Clinton started out as a Goldwater (R-AZ) girl.
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  15. He could put up a sign denouncing the Son's and Daughters of Veterans of the Confederacy in a statement like, "The Civil war was over in 1865 but some people like the Sons of the Confederate Veterans, owners of the adjacent land, flag and flag pole refuse to accept its outcome and continue to rub salt in the nation's wounds."
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  16. People from out of town may not realize that plus it is a good way to show that their are those who to this day can not accept people of another color and this man refuses to accept that god damn flag and its true meaning. Plus people who come out and protest all these monuments to mostly southern officers connected to the slavocracy and KKK rallies are doing what Lincoln wanted to bind the nation's wounds not to continue this racist bull shit of a separate south and so called separate southern heritage. Do you have any Idea how many Irish Catholic Immigrants were drafted as the landed in NYC to fight in a war and die for a cause which they knew little about? If it were up to me at the time I would have put many more of the CSA Leaders and military officers in chains for what they did. Grant let Lee off with little more than a slap on the wrist.
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  17. Go ahead and fly the god damn flag at your house but it doesn't belong at the state house.
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  18. That's because health insurance isn't about health but the profits for the insurance companies and how to make you pay the most for the least amount of healthcare. I have medicare but it won't pay a dime for dentures or eyeglasses. You can get a five hundred dollar a month prescription for dry eyes for $9.00 which I don't really need but nothing for five hundred dollars worth of new lenses (they won't sell me just one) or $5000 for a set of dentures.
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  19. Race will always remain an issue until a socialist revolution takes place in the United States itself. It is and always will be an issue of who owns your body and your labor. We own our bodies assuming you don't commit a crime. Even then those with more resources than others get different treatment and outcomes from the criminal justice system. Most of us must sell our labor to the highest bidder. Given that there are a lot more laborers than bidders regardless of your skill does that entitle the owners of massive industry the right to set the rate to maximize profit while the workers have no say over how the profit is used?
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  20. That's right!!! The people running the government today are like the slavocracy of 1860. There time has past and they need to be replaced permanently. We put up with them for now and spend our time debating the merits and weakness of capitalism. We have a small party and we prefer a replacement through democratic means. But we also understand that just like the slavocracy they may decide to shut down or ignore an electoral victory. You can see what happens when someone other than an anointed politician gets elected going on right now. Trump wasn't suppose to win but he did. Hillary had all the big money on her election. Why do you think they picked the former head of the FBI Mueller to investigate. People like Mueller are skilled at frame ups. Trump has been in office only five months and they've been preparing to remove him since his election victory was announced. If he continues or becomes more of a liability they' ll overturn the election results in one way or another. That doesn't mean he has any real ability to solve the problems he promised but it does show how they treat one of their own. Imagine if a real socialist from the Socialist Workers Party not a Bernie Sanders was elected to office.
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  21. Che his life and his accomplishments have outlasted his mortal life. Do you ever see pictures of Kennedy or Johnson on T-shirts? Che was a trained medical doctor who after graduation traveled throughout Latin America. He saw the richness of the minerals in the region like copper in Chile and Tin in Bolivia dug from the ground by miners whose children lived in conditions of utter poverty. He saw what happens when a people elect a government in Guatemala that the banana companies don't like. He met young Fidel Castro that was in exile in Mexico planning a revolution to overturn a dictator installed with guns on order of the US Ambassador. He signed on as doctor for the guerrillas and ended up being second in command for the Rebel Army. The dictators police used torture not seen or used in Latin America before. Removing eyes, nails and the most brutal methods were employed. The torturers received trials that they never gave their victims. The Cuban people paid with over 30,000 lives for the revolution. A dictator's army of 30,000 was defeated by a rebel Army of 800 and the Cuban people themselves. Yet you have crocodile tears for 3000 tortures. Today because of the foundation laid by Che and the other Cuban revolutionaries more Doctors are trained in Cuba for the world while the USA can't train enough doctors for the US population and relies on importing doctors from the neocolonial countries to meet health care needs.
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  22. Very often it's the police that create riots. Either they attack a demonstration or gathering directly or they use agent provocateurs to get the dirty work going.
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  23. Sorry about the spell check bloopers does that answer the question?
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  24. Trump hit a cord with almost everyone who has ever been hauled before a judge and that is that they are "so called judges". The system works today by charging you with the most serious charge or charges available with a 30 year prison sentence if convicted and then plea bargains it down to maybe 3 years. People are doing life on these three strikes laws because the last time they were picked up with a joint in their pocket or shoplifting. You have plenty of people doing long stretches on marijuana charges with no violence involved because they fit into the so-called king pin status. It's not a justice system but an injustice system and if you're a judge your part of it.
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  25. They aren't just all white juries. In many of the trials of Black Panthers and others mysteriously many of the jurors were friends and relatives of cops and not just one friend or relative but multiple jurors who would obviously vote and argue for the cops version of events. Once you are convicted it becomes almost impossible to get your conviction overturned. One reason being is that you are now considered guilty. You must then argue that there was a lack of evidence, new evidence or the trial procedure was so biased or tainted that a reasonable jury would find you not guilty. Since few American Juries vote not guilty that is a very high bar to meet.
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  26. The flag and Confederate monuments have the historical symbolism of the civil war and specifically the symbol of those fighting to continue the slave system come hell or high water. Keeping these flags and statues up on public property is almost like a state religion for some people.
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  27. "..we been tryin' ever since...honor.. honor the confederate soldier." Haven't been to successful have you?
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  28. Great! Now we know where the racist live.
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  29. Unless you were drafted or want to claim to be economically drafted you joined the Marines for you own reasons. You didn't fight for any democratic rights by joining the Marines people like me did that. That's why I get to say what I want on here. No rights were won by shooting yellow people in Korea and Vietnam or Iraqis and Afghans. The confederate flag represents segregation just like George Wallace of Alabama and Lester Maddox of Georgia. A segregationist Congress can write whatever it wants but it can never remove the blood on that confederate segregationist banner. Oh and don't worry those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution possible.
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  30. Read the actual declarations (not just the ordinances) of secession by the seceding states at. (Not all wrote them) http://www.civil-war.net/pages/ordinances_secession.asp and you will see that succession was all about slavery. You can also see that in the Confederate Constitution where the most important difference is perpetual African slavery. The section 4 of the 14th Amendment "...neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void...." This would seem to prevent any aid to Confederate Soldiers. Although at least some former Confederate Officers volunteered and served in the Spanish American war and some Confederate soldiers are buried at Arlington and other federal cemeteries. The 1929 Law makes confederate soldiers eligible for grave markers. The 1959 law allows for some possible pensions. You can assume that may imply recognition as US soldiers but it's not an actual statement. Then section 3 of the 14th Amendment. "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability." This is how former Confederate soldiers could serve in the Spanish American war.
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  31. The confederate widows thing comes from some sort of law passed in 1958 involving the payments of Veterans of the Spanish American war. I don't know how many people it involved but it was very very few.
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  32. Every so often some politician talks about session so he can make headlines.Without a constitutional amendment it can't happen legally. Despite the rhetoric the two parties aren't that much different from each other. The Democrats usually have the cities and the Republicans the suburban and rural areas. Even then how would you divide things up? Creation of city states? Nothing but pure grandstanding.
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  33. There is no right for states to leave the union. They signed on to the Articles of Confederation and Union. They signed on to the constitution for a "...a more perfect union..." The constitution has ways to add, divide and merge states but no way for states to leave. The President before Lincoln, Buchanan (D-PA) said secession was illegal but did nothing about it. There never was nor has there ever been a legal way for a state to leave outside of Federal Constitutional Amendment or Federal Constitutional Convention. That's why the 13th, 14th and 15th do not need to clarify a pre civil war supposed right to leave.
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  34. From the US Constitution Section 1 Article 8 On Congressional powers "...To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;...."
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  35. The federal government put down the southern insurrection. If Great Britain or France had entered into support of insurrectionist areas with troops than they would be repelling an invasion also. The North invading the South is a simplistic view. Legally the federal government was putting down a secessionist insurrection lead by southern slaveholding planters.
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  36. Look if South Carolina was obeying the law and not being the aggressor why did they fire on Fort Sumter. Somehow or another Lincoln didn't fire missiles launched from DC at South Carolina now did he? The Northern States were tired of having to spend state money on a Federal law to return fugitive slaves and the people of Boston decide they wanted to exercise states rights and used interference with federal marshals prevent them doing so. Cost the federal government upwards of $15,000 to return one slave who sold for a little more than $1,000. Not to mention the second federal marshal killed in the line of duty. Your were losing slaves and spent all your time in Congress bellyaching about it. Just like today you got all these people bellyaching about aliens and now you want to force states to do the Federal government's dirty work.
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  37. You don't just get to steal federal property because it was in one of your states. Damn slave holders tor up Kansas all over the right to own people. You know damn well that was what it is was all about not any of this state's right BS.
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  38. Just like George Wallace he wasn't campaigning for states rights he was campaigning for "Segregation Today, Segregation Tomorrow and Segregation Forever." You damn fools can't keep your mouths shut so whose fault is that?
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  39. Actually Republicans seem to be the Party defending free speech today. However both Parties defend it so long as it gives them an advantage over the other Party. Only the working class will consistently defend free speech and the rest of the bill of rights and the civil war amendments. For the ruling class and middle class free speech and the other rights mentioned are only defended when it helps them in their quest to save the capitalist system.
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  40. He could put up a sign denouncing the Son's and Daughters of Veterans of the Confederacy in a statement like, "The Civil war was over in 1865 but some people like the Sons of the Confederate Veterans, owners of the adjacent land, flag and flag pole refuse to accept its outcome and continue to rub salt in the nation's wounds."
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  41. Let's hold a trial for every Confederate officer at their statute for seditious conspiracy. The KKK can send in a few of their dunce cap lawyers and after the vote of the people assembled the saute will be destroyed by US Marines.
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  42. Black Live's Matter is a movement against police brutality and use of excessive force by police against black people. It has it leaders and organizations but it is not a specific group with a membership list. In most states both the Democratic and Republican Parties require that you check a box to be a member. Just because someone has checked that box and later does something bad or illegal doesn't mean a whole party can be blamed for the actions of just one person.
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  43. Put that flag in front of you house so we will know where the Canadian Bacon Maple Leaf fascist lives. While you're at it raise the flags of your friends the Imperial Empire of Japan, the Third Reich, the British Empire, Ottoman Empire, the Roman Empire and the American Empire.
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  44. That battle flag has a meaning dripping in blood first in the civil war itself and then through the segregation era that followed reconstruction. We do not have a separate southern culture or heritage except in the minds of the bigot in the North or South. UK is a nation CSA is not nor did it get international recognition from any other government. Go fly your flag in your front yard that way we will all know that only bigots should approach. It does not belong in front of any government building but it's fine for a museum piece. Nor do we need all these confederate office memorials. Most of them should go away like the Saddam Hussein statues. Send out a marine contingent to pull them down, send them to the landfill or use them for recycled material.
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  45. The UK is a recognized government not a never recognized 'government' organized by a seditious acting Plantation slave owning class that refused to recognized a democratically elected government. Besides every racist supporter of the CSA terrorist criminals can fly their flag on their property letting all who pass by know that they oppose government of the people, for the people and by the people.
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  46. The civil war killed more Americans than a total of all Americans killed in wars since then. It's considered the first modern war because of the industrial methods of death. Gatling gun, artillery shells, Howitzers, rifled muskets (1861 Springfield rifle), telegraph communication, supplies and men move by railroad, trench warfare.
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  47. First to those who say it's not about slavery I say read the justification for Secession by the State of Mississippi and other states. It's all about justifying secession and the right to own slaves. A's early as 1852 South Carolina held a convention to start the process and specifically cried about the plight of the slave owner. Mississippi said they would lose 4 billion dollars worth of slaves. Even the CSA money had pictures of slaves working on plantations. Anybody who says it was about Southern pride and Northern aggression is either a fool or liar.
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  48. I have to disagree slavery and the associated slave economy was the root of the differences and led to the war. Lincoln didn't make slavery the issue at first because he was committed to holding the country together. Karl Marx wrote Lincoln and urged him to free the slaves as a way to win the war. Whether that influenced Lincoln or not I don't know. Most people thought it would be a short war. A few musket volleys and canons shot off before an agreement was reached. The war dragged on and Lincoln decided to issue the emancipation proclamation as a way help crush the current rebellion in those areas in rebellion only. That changed the essential character of the war from one of just holding the union together to one of a social revolution. It also resulted in putting 100,000 black men under arms in union uniformers. We are left wondering what Lincoln would have done had he not been murdered and vice president Andrew Johnson from Texas not taken over.
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  49. What about those black POW flags. Aren't they the symbolic flags of a defeated army/military?
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  50. Throughout history in Europe the Jew as always been said to the enemy of a declining Empire and Absolute Monarchy alike. No doubt the scholarship of Karl Marx and the revolutionary fervor and writings of Leon Trotsky (Leon Bronstein) who lead a red Army made up of defeated troops of the Russian monarchy strike terror into the hearts of Capitalist and there corrupt spokesman and diplomats everywhere.
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  51. One can actually read the actual articles of successions passed by at least some of the 11 states and see that the slavery and the slave economy was the real issue. Nowhere in the constitution does it allow for states to leave the union. The right to secede was window dressing and ideological reasoning for succession while the real issue of slavery. Mississippi in her article of succession estimated the value of slaves to be 4 billion dollars. https://www.civilwar.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states
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  52. I think it would be better if you were allowed to fly the NAZI flag on your property that way everyone knows you stand for the Hitler regime and white supremacy. In this situation the confederate flag is flying on the technicality of a small piece of property but appears to be flying on the property on the property of the nearby business. Also note that this is on Calhoun St. Which is no doubt named after the famous South Carolina politician US senator, and vice President John Calhoun a stanch advocate for slavery before the civil war.
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  53. Sorry I'm not German so I can't do much about it. Nevertheless the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) once had a no extremists law which forbade both Communist and Nazi parties.
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