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.
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I correct you with every post.
LOL, you are leftist fool.
Perhaps in your twisted little ferret brain. In the real world I’m just a conservative.
I’m pretty sure that you yourself wouldn’t have wanted to mess with him. Ask Jack Armstrong.
So how did the slaves get free...magic?
In no way are you against the current purging of the Rebel Flag from the public “square”. If you deny it you are just a liar. Those are your conservative bona fidas.
Amazing, but the fact is that truth doesn’t matter to the media, the government, the internet twitterverse, or the bulk of public school numbed “graduates” out there.
Is Beyonce doing okay?
When will the new iPhone come out?
Did you see the latest cat video on youtube?
These are the questions on the minds of America.
The day of judgement comes, and many will shake their fists at God in anger instead of repenting in dust and ashes.
Lord, have mercy on me a sinner.
Don’t buy into the stupid, ahistorical Log Cabin idiots’ point of view.
See, there’s that pitiful little ferret brain of yours trying to do your thinking for you. That little almond-sized orb simply lacks the requisite mental horsepower to decouple the disgust I have for the slaver scoundrels who started a civil war that killed off over 650,000 of our best and the morons who are agitating to banish the CBF. You can’t believe me when I state unambiguously that I stand opposed to banning the CBF because a guy like you - you know, someone with an IQ that matches his shoe size - can’t separate and balance even one concept at a time, much less multiple concepts.
It’s that same rodent brain of yours that slanders me by daring to compare me to a libtard who shout out his hatred of southern soldiers (not unlike you routinely do with regard to union soldiers). Oh BTW: where’s those links general?
The delicious irony is that you’re slavishly willing to believe that a black man, and and democrat felt the same way about banning the CBF - so long as it furthers your idiotic agenda.
Does it hurt when you try to cypher?
That’s not nice.
What’s not nice?
Lincoln’s wife’s family owned slaves in MD.
Why yes they did.
“Yea except that Lincoln never freed one slave.....”
Yes, and no. See details of the Emancipation Proclamation. But this is not what my post was really about. Bottom line is that I am sick and tired of corrupt politicians and their race-pimp thugs STILL creating problems with, and supporting, these people that should be acting like respectable American citizens and not victims, lazy have-nots, etc, that do not want to be a contributing part of America, but just supported by it. Need say no more.
The 13th amendment was ratified by the states on December 6, 1865.
So till dec 6 1865... zero slaves were freed?... that would include the entire south that at that point was under Union Army occupation.....the Union Army was enforcing slaver as the law in the occupied southern states till Dec 6 1865?
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