{"id":102360,"date":"2020-07-18T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=102360"},"modified":"2020-07-17T13:46:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T17:46:58","slug":"confederate-flags-banned-on-military-installations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=102360","title":{"rendered":"Confederate Flags Banned on Military Installations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What’s it called when someone condemns the Confederate flag because of its racist past, but support the Democratic Party despite its racist past? (The Donald Win)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Defense Secretary Mark Esper signed a memorandum authorizing flags that could be flown on military installations. The American flag, state flags, territorial flakes, flags for each of the services, and the POW\/MIA flag. So far so good. However, for those who want to display the “Confederate flag”, it did not make the Defense Secretary’s list.<\/p>\n

From Fox News<\/span><\/p>\n

Confederate flags, monuments and military base names have become a point of controversy for protesters and activists in the weeks since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n

In many parts of the country, state officials have taken down Confederate monuments and symbols over the Confederacy’s legacy of slavery. But many activists have since moved on to targeting past figures and symbols of U.S. history in general.<\/p>\n

Trump has rejected the idea of changing base names, and has defending the flying of the flag as a freedom of speech issue.<\/p>\n

“I know people that like the Confederate flag, and they’re not thinking about slavery,” Trump said in an interview with CBS News. “I look at NASCAR. You go to NASCAR. You had those flags all over the place. They stopped it. I just think it’s freedom of speech, whether it’s Confederate flags or Black Lives Matter or anything else you want to talk about. It’s freedom of speech.”<\/p>\n

Esper’s memo says that the display of unauthorized flags — such as the Confederate banner carried during the Civil War — is acceptable in museums, historical exhibits, works of art or other educational programs.<\/p>\n

The Marine Corps has already banned the Confederate flag. Gen. David Berger, the commandant of the Marine Corps, directed his commanders in early June to remove public displays of the Confederate battle flag. That flag, which some embrace as a symbol of heritage, “carries the power to inflame feelings of division” and can weaken the unit cohesion that combat requires, Berger said.<\/p>\n

The other three military services were all moving to enact similar bans, but they paused when Esper made it known he wanted a consistent policy across the whole department.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fox News has more of the article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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