Ashcroft Supports Kentucky Woman in Rebel Flag Flap

[Moloch]

Soon-to-be-former Attorney General John Ashcroft heartily endorsed a lawsuit filed by a 19-year-old Kentucky woman after her school district refused to let her attend her senior prom while wearing a Confederate flag dress.

"This coming year marks the 140th anniversary of the end of the Civil War," Ashcroft said. "Some of us, er, some of the American people just haven't gotten over it yet - nor should they.

"What's the harm in honoring a big part of our country's heritage? It's not as though she wanted to wear a Ku Klux Klan sheet, or dress like some of those tramps on Desperate Housewives, or anything like that.

"It was a very tasteful rebel flag, just like the ones that used to be waved at Ole Miss and high school football games in Georgia and Alabama - until everybody got all politically correct," Ashcroft added.

http://www.deadbrain.com/news/article_2004_12_29_1953.php

[American Renaissance]

1. ugh...

The biggest mistake in American history was not rounding up the confederate traitors and shooting them.

If you showed up at a dance in Germany wearing a nazi flag, you would be arrested.

[7th_Sephiroth]

6. in all honesty

the swastika is illegal because they just want to ignore that part of history, i wonder if we will be outlawing the letter W soon

[Kellanved]

10. in all honesty

That is BS.

[Orangepeel]

2. the sad thing is...

this barely qualifies as satire, it is so realistic.

[Sporadicus]

4. GMTA! n/t

[Moloch]

5. LOL I was about to post it on LBN before I looked at the site...

Ashcroft has previously praised Confederate soldiers as "American Patriots," which is absurd on its face.

[Sporadicus]

3. The Sad Thing About This Story

is that it actually seems plausible.

[Orangepeel]

7. :-)

[kc.ink]

8. he diss'd the Desperate Housewives?

He's gonna be in trouble with a lot of desperate housewives, for sure. . . . . .LOL LOL LMAO

HUH??? "Until everybody got all politically correct????



Which PLANET did he come from???

eom

[JohnKleeb]

9. hah I am so not surprised

:shrug: so if I wanted to wear a CPUSA tux to the prom, Johnny A wouldn't have a problem with it, hey Commies are a part of our history and heritage too.

[Hippo_Tron]

11. This is a touchy subject, I sort of agree with Asscroft but sort of don't

If she wanted to wear a rebel flag shirt to school that would be one thing (so long as other students can wear shirts saying "Bush is a murderer"). Prom is supposed to be a formal occasion and thus I'm not sure that attire with symbols of any kind on it would be appropriate.

Of course, what Asscroft forgets is that most people (err I mean people that have brains) consider the battle flag of a country, whose only practical purpose for existance was to preserve the right to enslave an entire race, to be a racist symbol.

[Forkboy]

12. I agree with you

I dont have a problem with people wearing offensive things.I have t-shirts that say Fuck Everything and Kill Everyone Now...who am I to complain? If we stop her from wearing it they can stop me from wearing mine too.

Of course,it was incredibly tacky looking :)