Ed Hansen, West St. Paul City Council member, flies Confederate flag at home

• get FUCKING over yourself

• Someone "liked" that?  Wow?

• That "many... freed blacks" fought for the Confederacy is a myth.  It's simply not true.

• Oh!  Oops!  I just realized that you are not a white-guilt libtard, but that you are actually black. My sincere condolences.

• Move to Detroit or Camden New Jersey or East St. Louis, you sanctimonious white-guilt libtard hypocrite.

• Jesus loves you, Sam! (and He was black)

• I testified at the City of West Saint Paul Council meeting on 2/13/12 about the obnoxiousness of Ed Hansen's display of the Confederate States of America's (CSA) battle flag known as the Stars and Bars.  I pointed out that as a Symbol - the Stars and Bars battle flag represents a cause to overthrow the Government of the United States of American with Force and Violence - which is a clear violation of the Alien Registration Act of 1940, also known as the Smith Act of 1940. This Symbol - representing the overthrow of the American Government - by force and violence – is responsible for the deaths of about 650,000 innocent Americans - which is more American deaths than ALL of the other wars that America has been involved in since 1776 !!!! I asked that 4 actions come out of my testimony - 1.) That Mr. Hansen remove the display of the CSA battle flag; 2.) That Mr. Hansen issue a public apology to the residents of West Saint Paul; 3.) That the City Council begin censorship procedures against Mr. Hansen; and 4.) That the City Council begin a Grand Jury investigation into any and all Subversive Activities that Mr. Hansen may be involved in. I consider that Mr. Hansen's pride in the display of the CSA battle flag - is a clear symbolic act of advocating the overthrow of the American Government by force and violence - a subversive act - that is also a violation of the Smith Act of 1940. About 215 subversive Communists, Trotskyites, and Fascists have been convicted under the Smith act - and these subversive folk have paid fines and gone to prison for these subversive activities.  Mr. Hansen's subversive activities need a full investigation !!! Robert Allen - a resident in Ward 1 of West Saint Paul, Mn - the ward that Mr. Hansen does a so-called job of representing !!

• Outvoted?  Wait till November, Nigger.....your class will be DONE!!  Book a trip to Kenya.....enjoy your time there with Obama and his baboon wife and niglets!!!!!

• And the "average" black male is already in prison.

• Black men don't need to 'take' anything that's readily given to them.  The average Minnesotan black male is more 'eligible' at 50 than you were at 20.  And that's if you were good looking...which, given your lack of any identifiable photo, we'd sorely doubt. Cue outdated wailing about the only white woman who'd want an N-word blah blah blubber but just keep talking while the few who 'think' like you are outnumbered, outvoted, outbred and fade slowly into extinction.  You and the dinosaur bones at any Science Museum will have a lot in common.  Toodles!

• The Confederate Flag has nothing to do with slavery.....Blacks and Whites fly it here in the South if they want. Yes it belongs in a museum.... It flys in the South , romanticized as a symbol of a time passed , neither bad or good.

• I can't believe THE Michelle Bachman posted the above ignorant remarks.

• They wont move there because the blacks will rape their woman and steal their property.

• You must be so stupid and naive that you don't even realize that Abe Lincoln was an EVIL RACIST who did not live to see the completion of his plan to deport/repatriate the blacks back to Africa.  It is a huge shame that he did not get to complete his plan, nothing has damaged the USA more than blacks have.

• All naive white-guilt libtard "progressives", move immediately to Detroit or Gary Indiana or Camden New Jersey and shut the fuck up.

• Im an old man. I grew up in Georgia and I tell you the confederate flag meant HATE big time in my life. Not just against black people)Thats not what we called them) but also yankee scum. We hated yankees, despised them and this guy IS one.

• Americans are sick of "diversity".  "Diversity" has destroyed our nation. When Slavery was legal in this country, how many times did you hear about drive-by shootings and drug deals "gone wrong"?  Never.  Because these would-be criminals were kept "contained".  Now that they are "free", all they do is destroy this nation.  The sad part?  Us "whiteys" are not victims of their crimes.  They are killing their own people.  They are destroying their own race.  The black man is only being brought down....by the black man himself.

• O wow...quick to play the "racist" card, arent you. "Oh my hes got a Confederate flag and that means hes a racist and a bigot and didnt vote for oblammo and hates black people and is a redneck and listens to country music and has a cousin for a wife and likes hitler and is a dirty republican who hates america and wants to stop women from having "choice" and hes probably one of those christians who want to shove their religiosity down our throats and he should have his business boycotted for using his 1st Amendments rights because i dont agree with him and bush lied and haliburton and obango is the best president ever and why cant we be more like europe and OWS is really about free speech even though this guy with the flag isint allowed any cause i dont like him and i dont even know him and i think banks are evil and it dosent matter that they were the major contributors to obunghole's campaign and you dont understand oblango because youre a stupid conservative and you should have to pay for contraception even though its against your religion because your religion is evil even though its main message is "be kind to others and believe that I died for your sins" and that is just like a republican to try to balance the budget even though derpocrats havent proposed one in over 90 months even thought its thier job and israel is evil even thought they are fighting for their lives every second of every minute of every hour of every day and free palestine from the dirty jews and communism works on paper so why cant conservatives just let us do it and the founding fathers were terrorists and we need more chevy volts and GE should not have to pay on their income and we need more than 99 months of unemployment checks to get the economy going again and its bush's fault were 14 trillion in the hole and obungalunga had nothing to do with it..." Shut your cum-dumpster you commie faggot... 

• Both sides are right.

• This article is giving Rocco's pizza in Little Canada A LOT of advertising.  I stopped in tonight and the place was PACKED.  Try the deep dish 'Za.  Its friggin' awesome!!  

• If we were to enact slavery again, crime would go down and we would save hundreds of millions of dollars a year not having to pay out Welfare benefits. Just Sayin'.

• So, does his raising the "stars and bars" mean he wants to succeed from the union, or does he want to re-constitute slavery. There are only two options here.  I think if you want to succeed from the union, you should probably just go back to where you came from, Germany, Norway? That is what people say about other Americans who have an  anti-American sentiment, isn't it?  If all you want is to re-establish slavery, than just say so. I'm sure there are people out there who will really appreciate your honesty. A true rebel would never hide behind a flag.

• Had Obama not been elected, a lot of people would have played the race card. Since he DID get elected, many of those same people tried to say that means we're living in a "post-racial" society. In both cases, they're simple-minded idiots.

• I'm waiting for Kirk the Conservative Jerk to chime in on this one. Where is he when he's actually needed? Lol.

• You could say the same about flying the British flag, am I wrong?

• That's the single dumbest thing I've ever read.

• And it's not treason when collectively act on a right which the Constitution affords you.

• If you find the flag offensive, fine -- I won't tell you that you shouldn't. But don't jump to conclusions that everyone should see it that way and that everyone who doesn't is a racist. That's just stupid.

• This is true but it's not the whole truth or the whole history. I'm not saying people have no right to be offended, I'm just saying ignorant jackasses like the poster should watch what the fuck they say. Stereotyping is harmful no matter who you're doing it to. Not everyone who waves the flag is a racist. If you think they are you should try getting your history from somewhere other than the Al Sharptons of America. Case in point... I had a black buddy in college who was from Texas. He said his neighbors flew the flag high and proud, and they NEVER had a problem between them -- he said they were one of the nicest families he knew.

• That said, I don't think it's wise to fly it publicly simply BECAUSE people's views of the flag and the rebellion have been distorted unfairly because history is written by the winners. But to characterize those who died fighting for what they perceived as right and moral (no, not slavery --  the constitutional right to address the government with your grievances and to rise up when your problems are not addressed!) is extremely offensive to the thousands and thousands that died. And don't go acting like the North were 100% good guys. Ever heard of Sherman's march? Or any number of Union generals and officers who would go on to slaughter thousands of Native American women and children? History is not black and white, my friend -- no pun intended.

• The Confederate Battle Flag was a standard for a nation that was born so that it could enshrine the right for one person to own another into its constitution. Later, it was resurrected by southern politicians as a symbol of their desire to resist integration and the civil rights movement. These days it's waved by hicks, neo-Nazis, and the Klan.

• Yer god damn right. At least the South had the balls to do something about it, while these occupy hippies sit in their tents and smoke pot. (For the record, I support them too, but they're not going to get anything done by being pacifists)

• Sorry, you and I have agreed in many posts in the past but in this one your ignorance encroaches on idiocy, and I find your bigoted stereotyping extremely offensive. You say brave veterans gave their lives fighting the assholes who flew this flag. What about the brave assholes who had the balls to say enough's enough? Are they not brave veterans? I am descended from brave southern Americans who had the gall to stand up to their government. Most of these people were not slave owners, and many Native Americans and freed blacks fought against the north as well. Anyone who associates the flag as necessarily representative of racism, hate or bigotry is sadly ignorant. Just because a whole bunch of stupid fucking hicks decided to co-opt it as a symbol of their hatred doesn't make it inherently so. You ever listen to Pantera? Then I guess you're a fucking racist too. No, you don't listen to Pantera? Even worse.

• Wha, wha, wahhhhhhhhh.  Of course when he tries selling his hovel he is gonna bitch bitch bitch about any neighbor who doesn't do everything possible to beautify the hood and raise property values.  But naturally he doesn't have any such obligations to his neighbors.  As others have said..what total douchebag.  Glad he's not my neighbor.  

• He was born in Sphincter City in the great state of Asshole.  

• You probably have a communist flag on your deck, moon bat. Some of these guys think the confederate flag is a symbol that means "I listen to K102".  I think it's lame but I'm not going to get all worked up about it and bring up Hitler.

• City Pages wouldn't post my comment with a link to the PiPress article on Hansen, but if you go to the Pioneer Press and search for "Ed Hansen" you'll find the article and the very heated comment debate. Interestingly, most of Hansen's defenders seem to be from South Carolina and Texas, and have very interesting interpretations of why we had a Civil War: 1) Lincoln was a racist, 2) U.S. Grant owned a slave, 3) Yankees are all racist scum. Very enlightening stuff, including trolls who dare criticize Hansen's critics as being part of the crowd that promotes OWS and defends GLBT students in Anoka-Hennepin. 

• You're an idiot.  You say that the author is horrific yet you do not give an example of how that is so.  This is a blog, mind you.  I don' think that it ever said it wasn't.  You should worry more about your spelling errors than what this author thinks. (rediculous???!!!)

• Then they should do it already. What, 150 years isn't enough??

• He gets to display his flag, and we get to call him a douche for doing it.  That's how free expression works.

• This IS a blog, dear.  Look at the header on this page "CityPages Blogs".  Look at the domain name blogs.citypages.com.

•  But she "could care less".  ;)

• asshat.....

• You have obviously gone through and pasted this post into every article the man has written. Do know that this makes you look like a lunatic, as you have said this same post verbatim on utterly normal articles. Next time you want to spam your views everywhere, make sure your keyboard is unplugged.

• piece of shit, yes. but no one can make him take it down. that's exactly the type of thing they want you to say.

• The South shall rise again.

• The city should make him take down that deck!  What a piece of shit.

• I sure hope he is enjoying his fifteen minutes of fame.  When it is done he will go back to whatever it was he was doing before hand.  In the meantime, the rest of us are working to make the world a better place for all.  We don't need to fly a flag from our decks to prove our worth.

• When being critical someone else's writing, it would probably be a good idea to edit your own first. "Rediculous" is actually spelled "ridiculous" and "aritcle" is "article". And you are suppose to capitalize Washington Post, City Pages, and I. Just saying.

• "This guy is free to fly is flag, and we're free to call him an ignorant racist asshole."  Once the politically correct crowd sees that he will not bow down to the racist card, then the demands will commence.

• Go Ed! Treason forever!

• The Star Tribune (Red Star?) refuses to publish a story about this as Ed Hansen is a major embarrassment to the knuckle-dragging right. http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_19940491 Read the Pioneer Press's story, then scroll through all the comments, many of which are coming from "patriots" in South Carolina and Texas who aren't shy about "educating" us Yankee scum as to the noble Confederate cause which they claim had nothing to do with slavery and everything to do with 1) Lincoln being a racist, 2) U.S. Grant owning slaves, 3) the Yankee war of aggression against the poor, poor pitiful Southern states who never did nuthin' to nobody.

• I would like City Pages to know I find this author to be horrific.  Is there no editorial oversight on this blog?  While i am not opposed to the interjection of humor or wit into an article, this author in particular writes his articles like they are posts to his own personal blog.  I would appreciate more reporting of the facts and perhaps even the point of view or comments of community members or the relevant people in the aritcle, but i could care less about his point of view and find his remarks in all his articles to be juvenile and sometimes even insulting.  I know the city pages isnt the washington post, but this is a bit rediculous.

• I would like City Pages to know I find this author to be horrific.  Is there no editorial oversight on this blog?  While i am not opposed to the interjection of humor or wit into an article, this author in particular writes his articles like they are posts to his own personal blog.  I would appreciate more reporting of the facts and perhaps even the point of view or comments of community members or the relevant people in the aritcle, but i could care less about his point of view and find his remarks in all his articles to be juvenile and sometimes even insulting.  I know the city pages isnt the washington post, but this is a bit rediculous.

• A confederate flag is the only thing that could make that hideous deck uglier. Obviously this guy's poor taste extends to architecture.

• Nobody has demanded that he remove his flag (if you read the article, you'd see that the mayor "asked" him to remove it and then dropped the issue after that). We're just expressing our opinions, a principle which you claim to be in favor of. Freedom of speech means being able to say what you want without fear of being locked up, but it doesn't mean you're protected from the court of public opinion. This guy is free to fly is flag, and we're free to call him an ignorant racist asshole.

• 10 will get you 20 he's not from the south or has any connection with it.

• It all boils down to one thing. Freedom of Expression.  Deal with it St. Paul, this is America.  I guess you want him to stop exercising free religion as well.  The thing is, in order to be able to express yourself freely and openly, you must learn to accept others open a free expression.  If you dont like it, move to China.  I bet you would love how they handle people with free thought over there.  GET OVER IT!!!!!  Find something worth while to complain about, like the economy...

• This guy needs to get a history lesson on the 1st Minnesota Infantry and their charge at Gettysburg. Seriously, anyone who feels they have the right (which I admit that they do) to fly the confederate flag should learn about the 1st Minnesota. But then, I think we all should know about them. http://www.firstminnesota.org/

•   You expect to see that sort of symbolism in certain parts of the Country and from those belonging to the various citizen groups and political organizations, but there's a reason you don't see those 'symbols' around here and particularly from those holding elective office.      The Councilman from West St. Paul may complain about others playing the race card, but he's the one that dealt the cards and invited us into the game.

• A friend in high school had a sticker regarding the Confederate Flag that said 'You Lost. GET OVER IT!' LOL

• " "I'm not a racist, and I don't think it's racist," he told the PiPress, adding that "people like to play the race card, though, when they don't get their way.""  "Race card" is a term only used by racist people. 

• This man is an embarassment to Minnesota and to the United States.

• It's a symbol of "individual liberty" as long as that individual is white. Seriously, does the American flag not suffice as a symbol of pride and liberty? Or has it been sullied by our brown socialist president? Personally, I don't mind people displaying confederate flags; it makes it easier to know who to avoid. To be clear, though, this shit-stain is well within his rights to display the flag, and I'm happy he's able to. But for real, fuck him and his ilk.

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