The Bexar County Commissioners Court voted Tuesday to have 2 Confederate symbols removed from county bldgs. Is this ever going to stop??

I understand his statement perfectly. It doesn't belong on any Government Facility. It was a symbol against our accepted form of Government. You can call it Treason. You can call it a desire to Negate the Ideals of the Constitution and Return to the Articles of Confederation that we had in place after the Declaration of Independence and before the Constitution. You can call it Rebellion against a Duely elected Republican President. Whatever. It has no place on any Government Building. It demonstrates an Unwillingness to accept the Rights of Others.

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel - The CIVIL WAR was not a war against slavery. The CIVIL WAR was one of many reasons. The symbol of the civil war should not be shunned and hidden and put away in hopes that all will be forgotten...and those who are saying it hurts them....need to get out a history book to read about the civil war and the many real reasons for it.

With all due respect, Sgt Kelli Mays, you need to pick up the documents upon which the CSA was formed and give them a good read. If it wasn't about slavery, as you claim, then slavery should only be mentioned in a very small minority or as footnotes.

Except, it wasn't left like that; slavery was cited as a major cause for a good majority of them.

TSgt (Join to see) - I did. I read my history...and didn't just pick out one thing and dwell on it and have it stick out like a sore thumb. Slavery made up a part of the disagreement, but the main argument was that the Confederates felt that each state should be allowed to govern itself as if it were a sovereign nation. The Confederates wanted to be a part of the united states only to pool resources for military purposes to defend against foreign invaders, and to engage in free trade. The Union however, believed that the Federal government should be able to impose law on all states, as it is today. The Confederate southern states rebelled against what they felt was oppression by out of state lawmakers, and in turn sparked the civil war. Abolition of slavery was a key Federal law that sparked anti unionism amongst confederates. The South didn't like being told what to do by a bunch of Yankees living 1000 miles away in Washington. A way to sum it up in a modern day version would be if all the governors of west coast states got together under Arnold Schwarzenegger and told Washington DC that they aren't taking orders anymore, and that they'll make their own laws from now on. Then Bush sends in the Marines to restore order, the Governors of the west coast states order the local police forces to fight them, and all hell breaks loose. That's how you get a civil war. Also, there were actually many slave owners from the North...if you read enough and through the history books you would know all of this to be true. IT WAS NOT BECAUSE of Slavery...slavery was a small part of the civil war...

he CIVIL WAR was not a war against slavery. The CIVIL WAR was one of many reasons. The symbol of the civil war should not be shunned and hidden and put away in hopes that all will be forgotten...and those who are saying it hurts them....need to get out a history book to read about the civil war and the many real reasons for it.

Sgt Kelli Mays The civil war was very much a war about slavery, why people make the argument that it wasnt goes beyond me because every peace of documentation from then says that it was.If you read South Carolina's declaration of Separation it points out the the reason they are breaking off is because of the non-slave holding states "increasing hostility to the institution of slavery".

Also youre second sentence makes no sense "The CIVIL WAR was one of many reasons". Many reasons of what? Are you trying to say was fought for many reasons?

And Im not saying it should be hidden or shunned, as I said it belongs in a museum and history books but it shouldn't be a symbol of pride or displayed above government grounds, it'd be no different than having a British flag waving around after the revolutionary war. The Confederacy was an ENEMY of the United States.