Posted on 06/28/2015 3:40:40 PM PDT by grundle
BLOCKBUSTER PROOF: Slain South Carolina Pastor Voted FOR Confederate Flag
June 27, 2015
Look at the evidence quickly before it is scrubbed by the powers that be…
His death was quickly used by the Mainstream Media and the Obama White House as a tool by which they could call for the outright banning of a historical image sacred to many who proudly declare their Southern heritage. And yet, the facts of Pastor Clementa Pinckney’s actual vote to locate the Confederate flag during his first term as a South Carolina senator have been willfully ignored by those same figures.
Senator Pinckney SUPPORTED placing the Confederate flag at the very state-house location the Mainstream Media and the Obama administration are demanding it be torn down from. And just as they tear down that flag, so too do they tear down the truth of who Clementa Punckney really was – a man of honor who did not participate in the race-baiting politics of Barack Obama and those like him.
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
The vote took place in May of 2000 and Senator Pinckney was among the 93 who voted in favor of the compromise bill.
You can access proof of his vote HERE – scroll down to H5028 (about a third of the way down) and then find his last name listed among the names who supported the bill. A copy of the bill and vote was copied and pasted below:
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The following House Resolution was taken up:
H. 5028 (Word version) — Rules Committee: A HOUSE RESOLUTION TO SET BY SPECIAL ORDER S.1266, RELATING 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, FOR SECOND READING OR OTHER CONSIDERATION ON TUESDAY, MAY 9, 2000, IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING CONSIDERATION OF SENATE AMENDMENTS AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE CONTINUING SPECIAL ORDER CONSIDERATION OF S.1266 BEGINNING ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 2000, IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE CALL OF THE ROLL OF THE HOUSE UNTIL THIRD READING OR OTHER DISPOSITION.
Be it resolved by the House of Representatives:
That S. 1266 relating 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, is set by special order for second reading or other consideration on Tuesday, May 9, 2000, immediately following consideration of Senate amendments and continuing each legislative day thereafter immediately following the call of the roll of the House beginning with
Printed Page 3643 . . . . . Wednesday, May 3, 2000
Wednesday, May 10, 2000, until S. 1266 is given third reading or it is otherwise disposed of.
Rep. D. SMITH explained the Resolution.
Reps. KNOTTS, FLEMING and COOPER proposed the following Amendment No. 2 (Doc Name GJK\AMEND\21332SD00), which was tabled: Amend the resolution, as and if amended, by striking /Wednesday, May 10, 2000/ on line 34, page 1, and inserting /Thursday, May 11, 2000/. Renumber sections to conform. Amend totals and title to conform.
Rep. KNOTTS explained the amendment.
Rep. QUINN moved to table the amendment.
Rep. FLEMING demanded the yeas and nays which were taken, resulting as follows:
Yeas 93; Nays 19 Those who voted in the affirmative are:
Allen Allison Altman Bailey Bales Barfield Barrett Battle Bowers Breeland Brown, G. Brown, H. Brown, J. Campsen Canty Carnell Chellis Clyburn Cobb-Hunter Cotty Dantzler Easterday Edge Emory Gamble Gilham Gourdine Govan Hamilton Harrell Harrison Haskins Hawkins Hayes Hines, J. Hinson Howard Huggins Jennings Keegan Kelley Klauber Law Leach Lee Limehouse Littlejohn Lloyd Lourie Lucas Mack Maddox McCraw McGee
Printed Page 3644 . . . . . Wednesday, May 3, 2000
McKay McLeod, M. McLeod, W. McMahand Miller Moody-Lawrence Neal, J.H. Neal, J.M. Neilson Ott Parks Perry Phillips Pinckney Quinn Rhoad Rodgers Rutherford Sandifer Scott Seithel Sheheen Smith, D. Smith, F. Smith, J. Smith, R. Stille Stuart Taylor Vaughn Walker Webb Whatley Whipper Wilder Wilkins Witherspoon Woodrum Young-Brickell _________
In his eulogy at the Pinckney memorial yesterday, Barack Obama said nothing of Senator Punckney’s vote to place the Confederate Flag at the South Carolina statehouse. Instead, Mr. Obama once again demeaned the history of the United States, of the South, pitted Americans of one race against the other, and even went so far as to suggest his political agenda was actually the will of God Himself:
Obama Tells Nation HE Now Speaks For God’s Will Regarding America’s Future
Clementa Pinckney was by all accounts a good and honorable man whose legacy of peaceful compromise did not deserve the divisive political rhetoric of a graceless president whose legacy has been one of self-serving demagoguery that continues to further diminish and weaken America.
We've always been at war with Eastasia.
They were opposed just enough to have it removed from the Capitol roof.
I see your point. Likely they thought they would not have the votes to remove it fully and saw this as a compromise or a method to lower the visibility. That is a valid POV
My thought is that if it was as important to Pinkney then, as it has now become, then the vote may have been different and an abstention may have been more appropriate in 2000.
“I suspect that the Senator, as well as all the Leg, were smart enough to understand that, and that it would have “permanent placement”, and “that it would have the force of law [the last two subject to a 2/3 vote to change).”
I thought that was the case . . . just seeking confirmation.
“I thought that was the case . . . just seeking confirmation.”
To suggest otherwise just make one intellectually dishonest.
It’s pretty tiresome dealing with crackpot cr4p from the left; even more so from our brethren who ought to know better.
“I see your point. Likely they thought they would not have the votes to remove it fully and saw this as a compromise or a method to lower the visibility. That is a valid POV”
They obviously did not have the votes.
Even the original blogger admitted that it was a ‘compromise bill”. although that didn’t stop them from claiming [that] “Senator Pinckney SUPPORTED placing the Confederate flag at the very state-house location” while failing to mention what the compromise was.
The big question is, when will it all end? When will the cultural cleansing end? Are all the historical statues and memories destined to be deemed racist? Will we keep any heritage at all?
Mat the presumptuous medias comeuppance continue unabated
I guess maybe I'm not clear about the point after all. Is anyone contending that the Senator consented to vote for the compromise through coercion or deceit and that consent through coercion or deceit is not consent at all?
More likely, the Senator voted for the compromise knowing the terms and conditions of the bill and believing he was receiving the benefit of the bargain for his constituency. After all, he was a STATE legislator. Only federal legislators vote for legislation they have never read.
The New York Times is not going to pick up this story...
Certainly hope not, it’s bogus.
If they note that FR is giving it credence, some will look like raving fools.
Clementa Pinckney was by all accounts a good and honorable man whose legacy of peaceful compromise did not deserve the divisive political rhetoric of a graceless president whose legacy has been one of self-serving demagoguery that continues to further diminish and weaken America.
Neither did the victims family’s expressions of forgiveness deserve a few buttholes coming to Charleston calling for a race war.
Good grief, even Sharpton told that idiot Shabazz to get out of Charleston.
Part of me thinks, never.
This is a nation of herbivores - and they will gravitate to the loudest bell they hear.
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