Posted on 06/24/2015 5:39:52 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Matthew 5:9 says “Blessed are the peacemakers” and it would appear Pastor Clementa Pinckney was definitely one of those.
While the mainstream media is decrying the fact that the Charleston shooting victim’s body was carried past a Confederate flag today, the good pastor may not have found it all that offensive.
In 2000, during his first term in the South Carolina State Senate, Pinckney actually voted in favor of H5028, the May 2000 compromise which placed the flag at its current location.
H5028 related to THE PERMANENT PLACEMENT OF THE UNITED STATES FLAG, THE SOUTH CAROLINA STATE FLAG, AND THE SOUTH CAROLINA INFANTRY BATTLE FLAG OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA
You can see here that Pinckney’s name is among the “93 yeas.”
A reader sent me an email asking:
Shouldn’t someone ask the cowardly Republicans and the race hustlers how it is they know better than Pinckney? In my mind, the 2000 compromise created good will – but the left can never keep an agreement, so good will only lasts until the next political opportunity arises. Then it becomes a simple matter of intimidation and raw political power.
Seems to me Pinckney’s vote adds to his reputation as a peacemaker.
Sage words indeed. Again, as Col. West opined today, don’t we have larger issues to worry about? And as Rush Limbaugh warned yesterday, is the next big target of the left our American flag itself?
I am not a daughter of the South, so I have no emotional investment in the flag. But I do find it strange that the actions of one sociopath should mar the reputations of millions, as if the flag itself pulled the trigger.
[Note: this article was written by Michele Hickford, Editor-in-Chief]
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The Civil War was won and Lincoln freed the slaves. Yet the race pimps continue on today. When will real Americans get fed up with professional racism and victimization?????
Lincoln’s EO concerning slavery did not free one slave.
Actually, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation immediately freed 50k to 75k slaves in territories under Union control but not specifically excluded from the EP. These were mostly in the Mississippi Valley and along the coast.
As the Union armies advanced, more and more slaves were freed. By the end of the war, something well over 3M slaves had been freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
Those are the facts, no matter how much you dislike them.
The battle Flag had as much to do with the Charleston Murders as the Golds Gym tee shirt he was wearing...
yeh- would like to see a scan of the real article....
Because they weren’t states in a state of rebellion you nit.
Yea except that Lincoln never freed one slave. He only promised slaves in the areas of the south he had no control over that they were free. For instance he made a point in the speech that in VA except Portsmouth etc were to be freed. Weird how those areas he mentioned were not freed and he had control over.
Screw that he didn’t want to free any slaves it was a political stunt. So another agitator joins the fray. I guess you took a break from celebrating.
I’m sick of pointing that fact out
Always just ignoring is easier.
Also MO, WV and parts of LA.
Because those areas weren’t in rebellion and thus he had no war powers to confiscate property.
Look, you really do need to get your story straight. You simply can’t logically blame Lincoln for ignoring the Constitution and then criticize him for respecting it in the EP.
The Lincoln Coven flexing their muscles.
LOL, muscles are like knots on cotton. I’m scared.
Lincoln wasn’t gay. Those are liberal and homos lies that want to proclaim nearly everybody important in history was gay. I read the books about that garbage and it’s laughable at the attempts to draw out conclusions that he was
The Emancipation Joke was meant to stir up a slave rebellion. That is is all. It went over up in Yankeeland like a fart in church. Draft riots in the first summer of discontent.
cva is a lost cause true-believer. If it is confederate mythology he’s buying it. My daddy taught me “Don’t try to reason a feller out of a position he was never reasoned into”.
It’s enough to correct him and move on ;’)
You ain’t correctin’ squat.
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