Posted on 07/09/2015 9:38:54 AM PDT by Enlightened1
A spokesman for Gov. Nikki Haley says the Confederate flag will be removed from the South Carolina Statehouse grounds on Friday morning.
Spokesman Chaney Adams says the flag will come down in a ceremony scheduled for 10 a.m. Friday. He did not give any other details.
Haley has said she will sign the bill to remove the flag at 4 p.m. Thursday. The House passed the bill early Thursday. The measure says the flag must be removed within 24 hours of her signature.
The Confederate flag has flown on the Statehouse grounds for 54 years since being put up as a protest of the Civil Rights movement.
Haley and other conservatives didn't begin a push to remove the flag until nine black churchgoers were killed in a church shooting in Charleston by a gunman who police say was motivated by racial hatred.
11:05 a.m.
The House is about to put its members on record on whether Confederate flags can decorate rebel graves in historic federal cemeteries and if their sale should be banned in national park gift shops.
The vote comes after Southern lawmakers complained that they were sandbagged two nights ago when the House voted -- without a recorded tally -- to ban the display of Confederate flags at historic federal cemeteries and strengthen Park Service policy against its sale in gift shops.
It's unclear how the vote will turn out, but momentum against the flag's display on public land has skyrocketed after last month's tragic slaughter at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina. Early Thursday, the state legislature finalized a bill to remove the flag from Statehouse grounds. Gov. Nikki Haley says she'll sign it Thursday afternoon. It must be removed 24 hours after her signature.
10:25 a.m.
Gov. Nikki Haley says she will sign the bill removing the Confederate flag from the South Carolina Statehouse grounds at 4 p.m. Thursday.
Haley's office didn't immediately say when the flag would be removed, but the bill requires it to happen within 24 hours of her signature.
Moments after Lt. Gov. Henry McMaster ratified the bill, Haley made the announcement that she would sign it in the Statehouse lobby that afternoon. The bill passed the state House at 1 a.m. Thursday.
The Confederate flag has flown on the Statehouse grounds for 54 years since being put up as a protest of the Civil Rights movement.
Haley and other conservatives didn't begin a push to remove the flag until nine black churchgoers were killed in a church shooting in Charleston by a gunman who police say was motivated by racial hatred.
Gone like a freight train - gone like yesterday!
Now that they have finally taken down the flag that was causing all of their problems, there will be no more acts of violence or racial animosity taking place within the boundaries of the state. Everyone can finally bask in the warm glow of common humanity and the overwhelming love and admiration for each other's differences. South Carolina can now be on it's way to becoming a perfect utopia of diversity and love and pride and unicorns and puppies and bunny rabbits.
It's truly wonderful news that nothing bad will ever again happen in the South Carolina, and it's people have now finally achieved a perfect state of bliss.
... for as long as it takes...
Jeb’s running mate.
That’s right. Down the old memory hole with four years of American history, burned away.
Mission accomplished, thoughtcrime purged! We have always been at war with _________.
Flag dont kill people, people kill people...
But most important of all is that the flag will be stopped before it kills again.
Of course she is. She has no value for American heritage.
She is such a disappointment.
A person down there should print out 365 flags on paper, laminate them, and then place one there everyday, all year.
Every time it is taken off, place another.
I am Republican and conservative and, like my friends and everyone I know, I am very happy to see that flag taken down. It is a flag of treason flown by people who killed loyal Americans, who fought to destroy the U.S.; later and more recently it is the flag of white supremacy in the South to fight integration and civil rights; it is the flag that represents all of this. These are not good Republican, conservative, or American values. I did not serve in the Navy to have someone fly that flag in my face, nor will I defend it. Putting it in a museum is a charitable compromise. Else dump it in the nearest trash receptacle.
And except for addressing this with racists and bigots, I am really surprised that it even is a point to be debated. Unless that is who is defending it.
Part of me says to just drop this topic here on Freerepublic but I cannot. It bothers me that people might think and associate Republicans and conservatives with the hate, racism, and bigotry that the Confederate flag represents. I suspect and hope that most at Freerepublic also don't want that association.
I will work night and day against that ticket.
Yep.
They put up cameras to catch 'em? Stake out the area, find the cameras and bag'em.
The stand up guards? Have one runner with a flag (distraction) for the guard to chase while another raises a new flag.
Bum ditch.
Godwin’s law...you lose.
This ping is just to let you know Nikki caved.
IMHO, the Confederate Flag had NOTHING to do with the murders in Charleston.
So along with the hard Left you are one of the Confederacy haters. Thanks for the clarification.
“Of course she is. She has no value for American heritage.”
Well it’s not important you know, compared with the history of the Indian Subcontinent. At least to Nikki Haley.
Anyone notice something different lately?
Sarah Palin, who I believe endorsed Haley has not weighed in on this issue. Things that make you go hmmm....
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