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Senator Tim Scott to Call for the Removal of the Confederate Battle Flag from the Statehouse Grounds
National Review Online ^ | June 22, 2015 | Charles C.W. Cooke

Posted on 06/22/2015 12:43:25 PM PDT by C19fan

All three statewide-elected politicians in South Carolina have now called from the Confederate Battle Flag to be taken down. The Post and Courier reports:

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: charleston; confederacy; confederate; confederateflag; csa; southcarolina
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To: jsanders2001
“And once that’s yanked down and another redneck shoots someone what next?”

You don't get it :o): take down the confederate battle flag and no one will shoot anyone ever again.

Because I believe that so strongly :o), this morning I ordered a Confederate Flag, a Don't Tread On Me flag with the coiled snake, the Goliad Texas Flag “Come and Take It” with pic. of cannon on it; and the present Texas flag.

I figure once they take down that Confederate Flag, they won't stop and will go after other flags that represent some fact of history, and try to get them all banned from sale.

I'll keep these historical flags I just ordered and give them to my grown son as a Christmas present for him to keep in order to preserve history.

21 posted on 06/22/2015 12:56:11 PM PDT by Marcella (TED CRUZ Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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To: Iron Munro
They've gotta make room for this one...
22 posted on 06/22/2015 12:56:13 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: C19fan

Tim Scott too?

That is a disappointment fer sho.


23 posted on 06/22/2015 12:56:15 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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To: C19fan

The Rebels is coming The Rebels is coming!!

OH wait. Is Rev Al or Je$$e sitting on the dais too?

Symbology is a curse to man’s psyche and its stability.

Mass induced psychosis..

Nothing new.


24 posted on 06/22/2015 12:56:31 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: cotton1706
Also unmentioned is that the Clinton used to celebrate Confederate Flag Day in Arkansas back when old Loose Morals Willie was governator. But now Hillary thinks the Confederate flag should be banned?
25 posted on 06/22/2015 12:56:51 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: uptowngirl

no. they only respond to the offenses that align with their agenda


26 posted on 06/22/2015 12:59:53 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: cotton1706

So seeing as a racist democrat had it put up, I assume you’re fully in support of taking it down


27 posted on 06/22/2015 1:00:31 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: C19fan
So, considering the recent black-on-white crime wave, and also the decades-old black-on-black crime wave in the major cities controlled by black Democrats (but I repeat myself), I call for the repeal of the Martin Luther King holiday. It clearly didn't work, and is a symbol of violence and oppression.

Then we should repeal every single Federal law that has contributed to the destruction of the black (and white) family. That would cut the Federal budget by 90 percent. We could have an excellent and well-funded military with the remaining 10 percent.

The crime rate would also fall by about 75 percent. The economy would boom. Wages of black men would rise by about 300 percent within 5 years. You can thank me later.

28 posted on 06/22/2015 1:03:28 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: bigdaddy45

“So seeing as a racist democrat had it put up, I assume you’re fully in support of taking it down”

No, it makes no diffrence to me. I live in Massachusetts, the opposite pole of those long ago political battles. I’m just tired of the republicans constantly being tarred with the confederate flag when it was the democrats who made it a racist symbol, with their lynchings and their Klu Klux Klan and their Civil Rights filibusters, and their hoses, and their Jim Crow laws, etc.


29 posted on 06/22/2015 1:05:55 PM PDT by cotton1706
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To: Sarah Barracuda

The flags are absolutely out of control in this country!


30 posted on 06/22/2015 1:08:59 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: C19fan

The `angry black me’ crowd wants to take down the Confederate flag on the State House grounds because of the evil act of a lone loser, and now they are interested in attacking the statue of Pitchfork Ben Tillman on the same grounds just a few yards away.

Truth told, Tillman was a real racist both as governor and U.S. senator. He later met with Woodrow Wilson who seemed to be an admirer (Wilson was born in Columbia, SC).

Just looked it up - the movement to take down the flag is now adopting removal of the Tillman statue which has stood on the State House grounds since 1940.

“Never let a good crisis go to waste.”


31 posted on 06/22/2015 1:10:41 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: C19fan

32 posted on 06/22/2015 1:11:22 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: miss marmelstein

And next will be the American Flag you know its coming..the murdering schmuck also stomped on the American Flag(As did Bill Ayers) so you know next the American Flag will be blamed for mass shootings


33 posted on 06/22/2015 1:13:47 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: jsanders2001

I’m not sure I would call this guy a redneck...just a loser dopehead.


34 posted on 06/22/2015 1:14:11 PM PDT by lacrew
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To: Altura Ct.

Well then, why don’t you go start that white political party you were calling for in the other thread?


35 posted on 06/22/2015 1:15:10 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Marcella
> I figure once they take down that Confederate Flag, they won't stop and will go after other flags that represent some fact of history, and try to get them all banned from sale. Either they're working on removing the U.S flag or redesigiing because ole red and white stripes just aren' "diverse" enough. Look for the homonaziis to try replacing it with this one soon. Of course it won't last long because ISIS will be giving them flight tests:


36 posted on 06/22/2015 1:16:45 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: uptowngirl

Will they take it down in ARKANSAS?

Bill clintoon a signed a proclamation allowing it to fly at their capital in 1987—did the demoRATS complain then?


37 posted on 06/22/2015 1:19:32 PM PDT by Chainsawj (Killing is my business and business is good.)
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To: C19fan

Let us be honest the BDS movement is scaring the bejeezus out of some of the Right’s opinion makers and this is merely throwing the mob off the scent of what they really care about. I’m talking Goldman and Drudge, not these political idiots they merely are stupid morons given a script to read. It won’t work


38 posted on 06/22/2015 1:20:33 PM PDT by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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To: armydawg505

If it was as talked about in the press as this is he probably would have been leading the charge.


39 posted on 06/22/2015 1:20:35 PM PDT by Chainsawj (Killing is my business and business is good.)
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To: Altura Ct.

No unity with a party that is deader than dead!

Weak, lame, and easily led by the MSM propaganda.


40 posted on 06/22/2015 1:21:09 PM PDT by roses of sharon ("Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise." Luke 23:43)
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