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Two arrested removing Confederate flag at (SC) Statehouse
GoUpstate.com ^ | Saturday, June 27, 2015 at 11:21 a.m. | From Staff Reports

Posted on 06/27/2015 4:21:43 PM PDT by Resettozero

Two people were arrested at the Confederate memorial on the S.C. Statehouse grounds Saturday morning. Authorities say they were taking the Confederate battle flag down from the flagpole.

According to a report by the SC Department of Public Safety officers who were monitoring the flag notified a Bureau of Protective Services officer that a woman was climbing the flagpole about 6:15 a.m.

The officer found the woman on the flagpole in climbing gear. When he asked her to come down, she refused to come down until she took down the flag, according to the report. The officer arrested her and a man who had been helping her.

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1 posted on 06/27/2015 4:21:43 PM PDT by Resettozero
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To: Resettozero

How long before such acts are met with a White House invitation?/no sarc


2 posted on 06/27/2015 4:23:03 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
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To: Resettozero

An electrified pole should do the trick.


3 posted on 06/27/2015 4:23:36 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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To: Resettozero

Crosses on steeples are next.


4 posted on 06/27/2015 4:26:02 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: Resettozero

About what you expected - http://www.wral.com/woman-removes-confederate-flag-in-front-of-sc-statehouse/14741784/


5 posted on 06/27/2015 4:27:27 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Oh yeah.

People shouldn’t get too riled up that this is about the south or the confederacy. This is about the destruction of the nation as a whole.


6 posted on 06/27/2015 4:28:36 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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To: Red in Blue PA
How long before such acts are met with a White House invitation?/no sarc

I wonder if the Obungler will say the police acted stupidly?

7 posted on 06/27/2015 4:28:39 PM PDT by Mark17 (Lonely people live in every city, men who face a dark and lonely grave. Lonely voices do I hear)
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To: Resettozero
woman on the flagpole in climbing gear

She probably has a bike-riding outfit as well.

8 posted on 06/27/2015 4:29:01 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: cripplecreek

Ab-so-lutely.


9 posted on 06/27/2015 4:29:37 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: Resettozero

“The officer found the woman on the flagpole in climbing gear.”

Check her papers. She’s probably an obuma racist Nazi.


10 posted on 06/27/2015 4:31:19 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: RightGeek

Ping for this account.


11 posted on 06/27/2015 4:31:34 PM PDT by Resettozero
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To: Resettozero

Leftist fanatics who up until a few days ago didn’t give an F about that flag, now cant restrain themselves from acting out. These people are dangerous.


12 posted on 06/27/2015 4:31:34 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Things are only going to get worse.)
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To: Resettozero

Well, they should have greased the pole behind her. :)


13 posted on 06/27/2015 4:31:52 PM PDT by ZULU (Roberts, Kennedy, Boehner and McConnell are Obama's Strumpets.)
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To: Resettozero

Like it matters you axxhole.


14 posted on 06/27/2015 4:31:54 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

Just grease the pole.


15 posted on 06/27/2015 4:32:37 PM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: Resettozero

It was an act of civil disobedience- something conservatives only read about.


16 posted on 06/27/2015 4:33:09 PM PDT by Canedawg (Liberalism is a mental disorder.)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude
Leftist fanatics who up until a few days ago didn’t give an F about that flag, now cant restrain themselves from acting out. These people are dangerous.

There are many churchgoers who have been inundated with non-Christian, anti-American propaganda relentlessly spouted incoherently from pulpits in certain type churches in the South, year after year.
17 posted on 06/27/2015 4:37:44 PM PDT by Resettozero
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To: Georgia Girl 2
Like it matters you axxhole.

Whaaaa...?
18 posted on 06/27/2015 4:38:55 PM PDT by Resettozero
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To: Canedawg
It was an act of civil disobedience- something conservatives only read about.

Don't disagree with you.
19 posted on 06/27/2015 4:41:05 PM PDT by Resettozero
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To: Resettozero

Talkin bout the article not you. :-)


20 posted on 06/27/2015 4:42:21 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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