Greece? The banks are closed. Puerto Rico? "Puerto Rico’s governor, saying he needs to pull the island out of a “death spiral,” has concluded that the commonwealth cannot pay its roughly $72 billion in debts". Has anyone noticed?
Posted on 06/28/2015 9:43:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Who says things can’t change in politics? We just learned, again, that they can — and fast! Ten days ago, you couldn’t find a politician in the South who had anything bad to say about the Confederate battle flag. Today, they’re tripping all over themselves to get rid of it.
To their credit, Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush led the pack. Bush pointed out that as governor of Florida, he’d given orders to take down the flag and consign it to a museum. Calling it a “symbol of racial hatred,” Romney tweeted that South Carolina should remove the flag from the grounds of its state Capitol. Both provided a stark contrast to presidential hopefuls Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Scott Walker and Lindsey Graham, who initially waffled on the flag question.
Then South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley stepped up to the plate. For the last five years, she’d walked away from any debate over the flag, but suddenly she, too, got religion, pulling together all of the Palmetto State’s Republican and Democratic leaders in a dramatic show of unity, demanding that the state legislature take down the Confederate flag. At which point even Rubio, Cruz, Walker and Graham clambered on board.
Overnight, Haley’s initiative sparked an avalanche of efforts nationwide to eradicate almost all traces of the Confederacy. The South Carolina House voted 103-10 to open debate on taking down the flag. Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley beat them to the punch. He simply gave orders to take the flag down from state Capitol grounds immediately. In Mississippi, the Republican speaker of the House called for removing the Confederate battle cross from the upper-left-hand corner of the state flag. And when Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced that he was ending the sale of license plates bearing the Confederate flag, political leaders in Maryland, North Carolina and Tennessee made the same call.
It wasn’t just the flag that fell. In Tennessee, politicians of both parties called for removing a statue of Confederate general and KKK leader Nathan Bedford Forrest from the state Capitol. Even more dramatically, in Kentucky, both the Democratic and Republican candidates for governor announced their support for moving the statue of Jefferson Davis, long-revered president of the Confederate states, out of the Capitol building.
And politicians weren’t the only ones to act. With one voice, major retailers — including Amazon, Wal-Mart, eBay, Sears and Target — announced they would remove all Confederate paraphernalia from their shelves. Valley Forge Flag Co. and Elder Flag Manufacturing Co. said they’d no longer manufacture the Confederate flag. Pretty soon, you’ll find few traces of the Confederacy left.
It’s tragic that it took the murders of nine Charleston churchgoers to bring people to their senses. Nevertheless, it’s still good to see that we, as a nation, are burying the Confederate flag once and for all. There’s only one problem: Nine beautiful people at Charleston’s Mother Emmanuel Church were not killed with a Confederate flag. They were killed with a gun. And not just any gun. A Glock .45, a semiautomatic pistol designed specifically for use by police and the military. A gun which no civilian has any business owning — but which Dylann Roof, as twisted as he was, as full of hatred as he was, was able to walk into a gun store and buy. No questions asked.
And yet, with all the talk about the Confederate flag, there’s zero talk about guns. What a contrast with the response to the massacre of 20 first-graders and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School. In the immediate wake of the Charleston shootings, even from the most outspoken proponents of sensible gun safety legislation in the Senate — Sens. Chuck Schumer, Dianne Feinstein, Joe Manchin, Pat Toomey — there was radio silence on guns. And in his first response to the tragedy at Charleston, President Obama appeared to wave the white flag on gun control. No attack on the NRA. No challenge to Congress. No call for action. Instead, on gun safety, saying only: “At some point, it’s going to be important for the American people to come to grips with it.” At some point? Whatever happened to “the fierce urgency of now?”
So, yes, let’s agree that the Confederate flag is no flag of honor. As the symbol of racial hatred and treason, it should be taken down and locked away. But that’s not enough. There’s one even more urgent priority. First, take care of the flag. Then, take care of the guns.
I believe that you’re right. Confederate flag, our guns...moochelle did say that we would have to change our history.
Wow - bunch of people who mock me, belittle my history, steal my freedom, take my money, pass their laws against me while exempting themselves from such restricts now want to disarm me?
I can’t imagine why.
They are broke. Beyond broke. Their debt makes the debt of Greece look like pocket change. China is still holding some of our debt but stopped buying. So this is all leading up to them taking what they can from us just to keep the charade floating a little longer. They have to come for our assets.
So they have no choice. The jig is up. Think of Obama as the dancing monkey for the organ grinder. His issue is not the issue. Their debt load is the only issue. So they are desperate, taking a gamble and putting millions of lives at risk.
I recently purchased a Confederate flag. If anyone comes for it, I will be knee deep in brass before they get it .
I have never been so fearful for my liberty as to what will come in the next 18 mos.
yeah
Time to Bury your guns(w/ammo) in PVC tubes... and report them stolen..
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I recently got a further education in Greek. Phillip II of Macedonia sent a message to the Spartans. “If I invade Laconia Sparta will fall never to rise again.”. The Spartan response was one word. “If.”
Hence the “ Laconic Phrase”.
I believe Roof was given that pistol by his father.
Incorrect.
On Thursday, June 18th, investigators did a trace of the handgun used in Wednesday's shooting and determined that it was a .45-caliber handgun Roof purchased from a Charleston gun store in April, two law enforcement officials told CNN's Perez and Bruer.
Roof purchased a Glock .45-caliber model 41, which holds 13 rounds, a federal law enforcement source with knowledge of the investigation said. Witnesses have reported that Roof reloaded a number of times.
Aside from being bat**** crazy, Roof did have a felony drug arrest, so it seems background checks are working as well as everything else in the Obama administration.
Greece? The banks are closed. Puerto Rico? "Puerto Rico’s governor, saying he needs to pull the island out of a “death spiral,” has concluded that the commonwealth cannot pay its roughly $72 billion in debts". Has anyone noticed?
This gives Comrade obamatollah a reason to annex PR and redistribute wealth...and get more votes for 2016.
The communists will go go all out to insure their new commie leader wins in 2016.
I’m with you there. Long ago my dad told me “love your country, don’t trust the government. “ It took a few years, but I eventually saw what he was talking about and took it to heart. However, these last few years, with bammy and crew in there... that lack of trust has reached new lows and I also genuinely fear the government and the people running it. I used to wonder how 20th century dictators could rise to power and get people to go along with their fascist policies. ... Not anymore. “Oh, that can’t happen here.” I’m sure if you had asked in 1930s Germany or Italy you’d have gotten the same answer. People are too easily seduced by the message, they don’t see the ugliness behind it - until it is too late.
Has a citizenry as well armed as ours ever been overcome by a tyrannical government?
Good question. I suspect that we're pretty much off the chart in terms of how well-armed we are as citizens. When you factor in the number of veterans - many with recent combat experience - that are part of the picture, it's pretty clear why the government has been... hesitant.
Look for New York to be a test case. With over a million refusing to register their ARs, it will be interesting to see what happens. Frankly I think one or two home invasions looking for weapons might be enough to initiate organized resistance.
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