S.C. state rep vows bill to remove Confederate flag

CBS News ^ | June 22, 2015 | CBS

[ScottWalkerForPresident2016]

From Charleston, South Carolina, to the statehouse steps in Columbia, there is anger over the Confederate flag and all it represents. The mass shooting at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston has reignited the debate over whether officials should remove the Confederate flag from state property.

Republican state Rep. Doug Brannon plans to introduce a bill to remove the flag, which he acknowledges will likely cost him re-election, reports CBS News' Adriana Diaz.

[ScottWalkerForPresident2016]

This clown is now a darling of the media. He (Brannon) went on MSNBC yesterday to pander to the current Leftist meme. He needs a GOP primary challenger, he's proved himself out-of-touch with his conservative constituency.

He also can't even pre-file the bill until December. Does he think the American public, which has the attention span of a gnat, is going to be focused on this a half year from now? Cause I think the presidential primaries will be all the Internet activists care about at that time.

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

Now that definitely would have prevented the mass shooting last week in Charleston.

If only they had acted sooner!

[scbison]

Republicans are complete morons. they could at least put Dems on defensive by using Margaet Sanger against and her racist eugenics. We’ll take down flag when Dems condemn Margaret Sanger for racist views that helped lead to holocaust and wanted to eliminate the black race.

[caprock]

I believe the flag under attack is actually the Virginia Battle Flag.

[Yogafist]

he acknowledges will likely cost him re-election

What a brave guy. Wouldn't it be neat to see a Republican risk his seat actually defending America?

[Buckeye McFrog]

Absolutely no evidence that the mass-murdering madman was inspired by the Confederate Flag.

There is some evidence that he was inspired by his girl dumping him to go with a black guy.

Perhaps this Rep wants to intro a bill banning inter-racial dating.

Didn’t think so.

[odawg]

It is not about the flag; it has never been. It is all about outlawing anything involving the heritage of this country. “Our strength lies in our diversity.” How many times have we heard that? Just as long as anything American is ruled out. It is white and racist.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I’m “outraged” and “offended” by the homosexual “rainbow” flag. It has absolutely NO HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE. When is that crap going to be taken down and banned? It’s nothing but a billboard advertising sicko porn and a recruiting tool for a sicko culture.

[miss marmelstein]

Good! That will end all massacres in the USA.

[Dilbert San Diego]

The mass shooting at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston has reignited the debate over whether officials should remove the Confederate flag from state property.

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Can I ask a stupid question? What exactly does the ongoing debate about this flag have to do with a nutcase and a mass shooting???? Why are these 2 issues being conflated? Why is it that before last Wednesday, nobody was talking about the Confederate flag in South Carolina, and now it’s a hot issue again??? Because of a mass shooting??? What is the connection? Is it now an issue because media types and liberals, or “journ-o-list” types decided it is now an issue again???

[Old Sarge]

It is all about outlawing anything involving the heritage of this country.

Exactly right - any version of the Stars and Bars has been hijacked by the race grievance industry and, by extension, the Left.

[Boomer One]

An attack on the Confederate flag is an attack on States Rights. Wish the Republicans could get that in their heads.

[Yosemitest]

Booker T. Washington nailed the truth about them long ago.

Take a look at Booker T. Washington on Black Victimhood.
This is a very important fact THAT IS NOT BEING TAUGHT TODAY !

A number of black “leaders” (e.g., Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton) have made their living by promoting black victimhood and white guilt.
Jesse Jackson has been shaking down corporations with the scam for decades.
Booker T. Washington (1865–1915) warned of such people within the black community in his 1911 book My Larger Education.
He described them as “problem profiteers”:

“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.
Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs
– partly because they want sympathy
and partly because it pays.
Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances,
because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
(p. 118)



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[Don Corleone]

Keep the flag. Remove Brannon!

[sport]

Their main target is the American Flag [Stars and Stripes]. But they know that they will have to get the Confederate Flag [it was the easiest to demonize]first. But once they get the Confederate Flag, they will employ the same argument against the Stars and Stripes. After that comes the “Star Spangled Banner”. They won’t stop until they are stopped. You can believe that or not believe it.

[sport]

Amen to that!

[Old Sarge]

once they get the Confederate Flag, they will employ the same argument against the Stars and Stripes.

[mac_truck]

How can Brannon’s action be construed as an “attack” on State’s rights when he is in fact a State representative?

[sport]

No, the Republicans are far from morons. If there is any moroning going on, it is on the voter end. It is the voters that continue to elect and re-elect them. The Republicans and Democrats have the same goal lines. They just differ on how to get there.

[yoe]

Rep. Doug Brannon is carrying on the myth of that flag.....Presently it is flying over a memorial to the War of Northern Aggression a place where it should be as the Confederate Flag is a battle flag

"The Army of Northern Virginia battle flag was square, of various sizes for the different branches of the service: 52 inches (130 cm) square for the infantry, 38 inches (97 cm) for the artillery, and 32 inches (81 cm) for the cavalry. It was used in battle beginning in December 1861 until the fall of the Confederacy. The blue color on the saltire in the battle flag was navy blue, as opposed to the much lighter blue of the Naval Jack.

"The flag's stars represented the number of states in the Confederacy. The distance between the stars decreased as the number of states increased, reaching thirteen when the secessionist factions of Kentucky and Missouri joined in late 1861.[21]

"The Battle Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia At the First Battle of Manassas, near Manassas, Virginia, the similarity between the "Stars and Bars" and the "Stars and Stripes" caused confusion and military problems. Regiments carried flags to help commanders observe and assess battles in the warfare of the era. At a distance, the two national flags were hard to tell apart.[22] In addition, Confederate regiments carried many other flags, which added to the possibility of confusion. After the battle, General P. G. T. Beauregard wrote that he was "resolved then to have [our flag] changed if possible, or to adopt for my command a 'Battle flag', which would be Entirely different from any State or Federal flag."[15] He turned to his aide, who happened to be William Porcher Miles, the former chairman of the Confederate Congress's "Committee on the Flag and Seal". Miles described his rejected national flag design to Beauregard. Miles also told the Committee on the Flag and Seal about the general's complaints and request for the national flag to be changed. The committee rejected this idea by a four to one vote, after which Beauregard proposed the idea of having two flags. He described the idea in a letter to his commanding General Joseph E. Johnston: "I wrote to [Miles] that we should have "two" flags—a peace or parade flag, and a war flag to be used only on the field of battle—but congress having adjourned no action will be taken on the matter—How would it do us to address the War Dept. on the subject of Regimental or badge flags made of red with two blue bars crossing each other diagonally on which shall be introduced the stars, ... We would then on the field of battle know our friends from our Enemies."[