Discussion: Minnesota Firefighter Suspended For Flying Confederate Flag On Fire Truck

system1 · July 6, 2015, 1:59pm

Discussion for article #238157

teenlaqueefa · July 6, 2015, 2:30pm

Next step: Gofundme.

fargo116 · July 6, 2015, 2:35pm

Yeah. Because that’s what objecting to a symbol for slaveholding traitors is. ‘Political connectedness.’

misterneutron · July 6, 2015, 2:36pm

Next up in Nielsen’s brave war against PC: he’ll start showing up wearing an SS uniform and carrying a Nazi flag. “It has nothing to do with the Holocaust, or with invading the rest of Europe. I’m just sick of the PC.”

srfromgr · July 6, 2015, 2:37pm

Nielson said that Hartland Fire Chief Trent Wangen suspended him while the department conducts an investigation.

What’s there to investigate? The guy says he did it because he wanted to make a political statement about PC culture…on a taxpayer funded public utility firetruck. Oh, the irony. I’m sure that’s completely lost on him.

misterneutron · July 6, 2015, 2:40pm

He probably just got confused by the postal abbreviation. He thought that Minnesota was MS. I always have trouble with those “M” states, too.

mike817 · July 6, 2015, 2:42pm

He can proudly wave that flag on the unemployment line. lol.

artemisia · July 6, 2015, 2:44pm

And by suspended, we mean “by his unmentionables” and “from a flag pole”…

These are the jokes people…I’ll be here forever…

dnl · July 6, 2015, 2:47pm

More lucrative to ‘form a committee’ to explore running for pResident.

rb639 · July 6, 2015, 2:47pm

The first reason to discount his explanation: He actually possessed a confederate flag that was a s big as the U.S. flag flying off the back of the firetruck. I am guessing that he did not purchase that flag within the last month.

phillydave · July 6, 2015, 2:48pm

Minnesota? I guess he’s working for “Idiots Without Borders”?

dnl · July 6, 2015, 2:48pm

DarWinning! One BattleFlag at a time!

doctora · July 6, 2015, 2:49pm

He flies the Confederate flag and celebrates the THIRD of July. And he calls himself an American?

rb639 · July 6, 2015, 2:50pm

And to think that the Battle of Gettysburg took place in the first few days of July, 1863, and the state of Minnesota contributed many men to the Union army.

inlabsitrust · July 6, 2015, 2:50pm

" ‘It was my decision and I didn’t think it was going to be a big deal, but boy was I wrong," he told the Associated Press’."

I’m guessing this guy is wrong about a lot of things. Hey, maybe he is one of the maybe three in the whole nation “southern heritage” adherents who regularly refers to African-Americans by the n-word, but thinks this is not racist or offensive.

538liberal · July 6, 2015, 2:53pm

Racist hoser gets hosed.

bonvivant · July 6, 2015, 2:57pm

Hailing from Minnesota, I have to wonder if it occurred to this moron that during the Civil War, Minnesotan soldiers fought and died against what that flag stood for. And yet he flies it on the Fourth of July during a parade? Clueless much?

martinheldt · July 6, 2015, 2:57pm

I saw one big confederate flag on a classic car this weekend. It was parading up and down mainstreet with hundreds of other old cars.

glenn414 · July 6, 2015, 2:58pm

2584 Minnesotans died fighting the traitors who marched under that flag…1.5% of the total 1860 population of the state. The equivalent number of deaths today would be around 87,000 Minnnesota citizens. PC my ass.

canary02 · July 6, 2015, 2:58pm

“PC culture?” I think most Americans–well, Northerners, anyhow–are quite sincere in their view that secession from the US should not be celebrated on the very day that marks the birth of the US. Doesn’t “PC” indicate that the views being expressed are insincere, but voiced only to go along with the crowd?