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Summum ius summa iniuria--More law, less justice
--Cicero.

09 November 2010

Battle flag flying in Poland...Ideals of the Cause begin to proliferate


November 8, 2010

Polish Stars and Bars

When I traveled to Krakow, Poland a couple of weeks ago to attend an economics conference sponsored by Polish libertarians, the young man who picked me up at the airport had a Confederate flag magnet on the dashboard of his car.  He told me that he got it when visiting Richmond, Virginia, where he also purchased a Confederate flag.
Politically-Correct Interpretation:  Obviously, this young libertarian, whose parents were slaves of socialism,  is a racist who reveres nineteenth-century American slave owners and would probably like to introduce slavery to Poland.
More Realistic Interpretation:  This young Polish libertarian, who has not been brainwashed by American government schools, and who has never attended a Claremont Institute seminar, naturally thought of the Confederate flag as a symbol of opposition to a hated centralized governmental tyranny.

--From yesterday afternoon post on Lewrockwell.com/blog



"There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come."

- Victor Hugo

3 comments:

  1. DiLorenzo is one of my favorite authors.

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  2. There are quite a few in Poland. A friend, Eric, lives there and passes Battle Flags out to the truckers and flies many at his home. A couple of old links below.

    Looking For Colonel Heros von Borcke's Grave
    http://www.namsouth.com/viewtopic.php?t=698&highlight=heros+von+borcke

    Report From Poland On Colonel Heros von Borcke's Ceremony
    http://www.namsouth.com/viewtopic.php?t=1741&highlight=heros+von+borcke

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  3. Burke Davis relied heavily on Von Borcke's diary in his book "JEB Stuart, the Last Cavalier".

    Von Borcke was a great man.

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