# Confederate patriot bombs Wal-Mart because it stopped selling Confederate flags **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 3, 2015, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confederate-patriot-bombs-wal-mart-because-it-stopped-selling-confederate-flags/736482 "2015-11-03T00:48:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2015, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confederate-patriot-bombs-wal-mart-because-it-stopped-selling-confederate-flags/736482/21 "2015-11-03T20:31:14Z")
_sigh_ The ancestor worhippers are turing into a cult. ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2015, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confederate-patriot-bombs-wal-mart-because-it-stopped-selling-confederate-flags/736482/22 "2015-11-03T20:48:18Z")
> [@digs](#): > > So not wearing a flag pin is really just devout dedication to the letter of the law. Glad I’m such a patriot in my everyday fashion choices. I wish Obama had said that when people dissed him for not wearing a pin during his first campaign. ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2015, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confederate-patriot-bombs-wal-mart-because-it-stopped-selling-confederate-flags/736482/23 "2015-11-03T20:49:18Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > You think Walmart has nice things? It does by Mississippi standards. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2015, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confederate-patriot-bombs-wal-mart-because-it-stopped-selling-confederate-flags/736482/24 "2015-11-03T21:49:45Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Another false flag operation. Thanks, old bomber! Someone will be around to collect you shortly. Limit yourself to one pun per post, please. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2015, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confederate-patriot-bombs-wal-mart-because-it-stopped-selling-confederate-flags/736482/25 "2015-11-03T23:12:44Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > Is there something in the air in the South? Are there increasing numbers of these crazy incidents, or are we simply hearing about them more? I can’t wrap my pea brain around someone bombing a store because it no longer sells a flag. How about someone bombing an abortion clinic and potentially killing someone because they are trying, theoretically, to protect a fetus? It’s all the same crazy. As to increased numbers, I doubt it…there are always a certain percentage of the population that are nuts and only takes having their pet issue trifled with to set them off. This Confederate flag thingy has been brewing for a while, but it’s only recently really come to a head, and obviously that was the trigger to set this nut off. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2015, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confederate-patriot-bombs-wal-mart-because-it-stopped-selling-confederate-flags/736482/26 "2015-11-03T23:55:09Z")
> [@Zakalwe](#): > > It may say that, but it is unconstitutional and unenforceable. See United States v. Eichman. What does that have to do with anything? Pretty much every kind of desecration is legal. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confederate-patriot-bombs-wal-mart-because-it-stopped-selling-confederate-flags/736482/27 "2015-11-04T00:26:18Z")
> [@XT](#): > > How about someone bombing an abortion clinic and potentially killing someone because they are trying, theoretically, to protect a fetus? It’s all the same crazy. Nah, that’s like killing Hitler if you had the chance. One murderer’s life to stop many murders. ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confederate-patriot-bombs-wal-mart-because-it-stopped-selling-confederate-flags/736482/28 "2015-11-04T03:06:54Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > Nah, that’s like killing Hitler if you had the chance. One murderer’s life to stop many murders. But not if you have a time machine and Hitler is a fetus. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confederate-patriot-bombs-wal-mart-because-it-stopped-selling-confederate-flags/736482/29 "2015-11-04T03:41:27Z")
That’s the funniest damn thing I’ve heard all day. “I shall now calmly and rationally explain my position on the confederate flaBOOM” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confederate-patriot-bombs-wal-mart-because-it-stopped-selling-confederate-flags/736482/30 "2015-11-04T05:34:36Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > I am not sure which is more pit-worthy, that he bombed the Wal-Mart or that wearing a Confederate flag is considered desecration by these crazies. The former, and you **are** sure, but you shouldn’t be. ---
**Author:** ![Abe\_Babe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Abe\_Babe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abe_Babe)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confederate-patriot-bombs-wal-mart-because-it-stopped-selling-confederate-flags/736482/31 "2015-11-04T14:07:45Z")
Can we sent him to Guantanamo? ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confederate-patriot-bombs-wal-mart-because-it-stopped-selling-confederate-flags/736482/32 "2015-11-04T21:05:48Z")
I read this far into this thread and I’m extremely disappointed no one has made a quarry joke here. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confederate-patriot-bombs-wal-mart-because-it-stopped-selling-confederate-flags/736482/33 "2015-11-05T17:21:32Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > I read this far into this thread and I’m extremely disappointed no one has made a quarry joke here. He went after his quarry and threw a bomb in there? ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confederate-patriot-bombs-wal-mart-because-it-stopped-selling-confederate-flags/736482/34 "2015-11-05T19:49:41Z")
How many quarries does it take to screw in a light bulb? ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confederate-patriot-bombs-wal-mart-because-it-stopped-selling-confederate-flags/736482/35 "2015-11-05T21:45:24Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > I find the image of him driving around with a big-ass flag running red lights is really hilarious. Sadly, we have MANY such psychos in NJ who drive with big-assed flags mounted on the back of their red pick-up trucks. Sometimes it looks like they are covering the rust spots with “Kill Obama!” and “NRA” stickers. I saw one the other day with “Country Boy” stenciled into the darkened glass of the truck’s windshield… along with chrome leg-iron chains attached to its front bumper. Hate speech just takes on new forms, but it is as prevalent as cheap cigarettes (and the low-class people who smoke them). ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2015, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confederate-patriot-bombs-wal-mart-because-it-stopped-selling-confederate-flags/736482/36 "2015-11-06T01:07:28Z")
> [@lance\_strongarm](#): > > How many quarries does it take to screw in a light bulb? Why did the chicken go out to the quarry and throw stuff down there? ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2015, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confederate-patriot-bombs-wal-mart-because-it-stopped-selling-confederate-flags/736482/37 "2015-11-06T02:00:03Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Why did the chicken go out to the quarry and throw stuff down there? To eventually fill it up and get to the other side! ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2015, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confederate-patriot-bombs-wal-mart-because-it-stopped-selling-confederate-flags/736482/38 "2015-11-06T19:49:27Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Well, the breakaway nation was the Confederate States _of America_, and its constitution was a slightly-tweaked ( **and in some small cases, improved** ) version of the U.S. constitution, so it’s fair for a hardcore neo-Confederate to be pro-American, just not pro-USA, though I’m sure some of them manage to pull it off. Bolding mine. I’m not trying to be provocative, but I’m generally curious of how the Confederate constitution improved upon the U.S. Constitution. Can you please offer an example? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confederate-patriot-bombs-wal-mart-because-it-stopped-selling-confederate-flags/736482.md?page=1)