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-Land of the Free

Florida man kicked out of school for saluting Lee statue

2017-08-20

[PNJ] A Pensacola student who sparked controversy Tuesday by wearing a Confederate uniform to the site of a violent clash between white nationalists and counterprotesters has been kicked out of Pensacola Christian College, according to a North Carolina media outlet.
Sounds like what we used to call a "dipshit." There's a difference between a dipshit and a knucklehead. I don't know what it is.
WXII News 12 reported that Allen Armentrout, who reportedly splits time living in Pensacola and North Carolina, learned Thursday that PCC staff had decided to terminate his enrollment.

"I have been released from my school and will be unable to return to college to finish my senior year," Armentrout told the TV station. "I'm processing this and making adjustments to my life to compensate for this scrutiny."

Armentrout could not be reached for comment Friday.

In a statement to the News Journal on Friday, Pensacola Christian College wrote that to protect student privacy, the institution would not provide any specific information related to any student's enrollment or history at the college.

The statement continued, "Pensacola Christian College recognizes the dignity and value of all people, and we respect the history of America. We encourage individuals to exercise discernment and seek to build reconciliation, especially during a time of mourning like Charlottesville is experiencing."

Video from Tuesday showed Armentrout — wearing a Confederate uniform and carrying a Confederate flag — standing and saluting a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee at Charlottesville's Emancipation Park. He was surrounded by a crowd that chanted "terrorist go home." Armentrout stood in a motionless salute until he was peaceably escorted away from the scene by police.

Armentrout later told the News Journal he made the trip to Virginia because the KKK, Neo-Nazis and other groups are destroying the history of his ancestors and he wants to share "the true history" of the American South. He said Neo-Nazis have wrongly "latched on" to Confederate history.

"I went up there to represent what I believe is right," he said.

Hundreds of white nationalists gathered in Charlottesville over the weekend to protest the removal of Lee's statue and were met by counterprotesters who condemned their cause. Heather Heyer, a Charlottesville paralegal, was killed when James Alex Fields Jr. allegedly drove a car into a crowd of counter protesters.

Posted by:badanov

#7 Lee for all the anger he attracts from the urban gentry flying their presumptuous virtue flag ignored the man brought an end the deadliest conflict in American history. He could have disbursed his army telling them to continue the fight by other means. By other means, one only has to look at the West and Bleeding Kansas and the Lawrence massacre. It would be Iraq, but over a hundred years earlier, raids and retribution. Quantrill's company included the James brothers, who'd use the lingering animosity of the locals to hide among in the post-Civil War endeavors. We avoided a really nasty large scale guerrilla war by his actions.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-08-20 11:06

#6 He saluted a statue. Not the flag.

Posted by: badanov 2017-08-20 09:18

#5 ...When I attended the funeral services for the crew of the H.L. Hunley in Charleston in 2004, there were several hundred reenactors there, and as they left, most left marching in formation - and a lot of people were saluting the Confederate flag as it went by. I couldn't; it simply wasn't right. I had no problem standing respectfully for these men - they were behaving honorably and in a military fashion. But rendering honors? No.

Sounds like what we used to call a "dipshit." There's a difference between a dipshit and a knucklehead. I don't know what it is.

And clearly neither does this guy.

Mike

PS - FWIW, I've known a bunch of people who have attended PCC, and I am not surprised by the school's reaction. They demand good behavior, and honor to one's country. This clown spit in their face and apparently expected no ill effects.

Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2017-08-20 08:22

#4 Except, with the American left since the last elections it's more "If I can't have it, nobody should have it"

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-08-20 04:12

#3 This is not going to end well for this nation.

Depends on what you trying to achieve - ever heard of divide and rule?

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-08-20 03:56

#2 A lot of people through out the South wear the Confederate Uniform at certain events. The Confederate flag is displayed over the bars along the Ouichita River, while young black men on the other side of the river sling crack in the housing projects. Lake City Florida, near Pensacola has decedents of the confederates host the annual festival of the battle of Olustee.

I have seen them in central Texas.

And one thing I know of these people, if you cross them, you have created for yourself a no-go zone. A white college kid was assaulted by a group of African American students. A few weekends later a black rodeo clown did a great act duaring an intermission and when it was over, instead of the expected applause, there was defining silence from the thousands of the all white crowd in the arena stands. He went out the back of the arena and never came back. This is not going to end well for this nation.

Posted by: Hupeting Sforza8196 2017-08-20 02:28

#1 Knuckleheads are generally benign.

Posted by: Sgt.D.T. 2017-08-20 00:52

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