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<MIDDLE>L</MIDDLE>
<LAST>Foertsch</LAST>
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<ORGANIZATION>Citizen</ORGANIZATION>
<ADDR1>6031 N. Paulina</ADDR1>
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<CITY>Chicago</CITY>
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<SUBJECT>Confederate Flag</SUBJECT>
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While not a resident of South Carolina, I feel the need to comment about your attempts to take down the Confederate Flag. I have never had any feelings for that flag, but I understand the hatred in some that is constantly built up by extremists.

I also understand the very real affiliation some have for that flag and who waved it as South Carolina soldiers died protecting South Carolina's right to be free and not oppressed by Washington. In that sense it is more important now then when soldiers died for it, as our current president constantly leads Congress and the courts in taking away our rights and controlling the citizens of America. I now see it as a sense of free speech as guaranteed by our Constitution and a sense or reasonable, peaceful rebellion to tyranny.

When someone tells me I can't have something that they have decided they don't want me to have, and I see no real harm in it, I want to have it. Free speech and free expression. I might not agree with what you say, but I will fight to the death for you to be able to say it. You are now doing the exact opposite, while hundreds of thousands died to protect that right for South Carolina.

Racism. Slave owners. While many officers in the rebel army might have owned slaves, I can't believe any of those poor foot soldiers marching into sudden death, owned slaves. They were fighting for a free South Carolina.

Please reconsider and don't jump on the populist band wagon, but stand with the right to free expression, especially on the monuments of your fallen soldiers and their graves.
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