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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:

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: charleston; confederacy; confederate; confederateflag; csa; southcarolina
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1 posted on 06/22/2015 12:43:25 PM PDT by C19fan
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And once that’s yanked down and another redneck shoots someone what next?


2 posted on 06/22/2015 12:44:24 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: C19fan

Ye gods.


3 posted on 06/22/2015 12:44:55 PM PDT by beelzepug (liberalism is not...a political philosophy. It is a stage of arrested emotional development.)
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4 posted on 06/22/2015 12:47:00 PM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. – Robert Heinlein)
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So when someone complains that taking the flag down offends them will they put it back up? This is starting to get ridiculous.


5 posted on 06/22/2015 12:48:12 PM PDT by uptowngirl
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Fly it upside down. Oh wait, it’s symmetrical.


6 posted on 06/22/2015 12:49:21 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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Just wondering if the Mexican flag is flown in public areas and if so, removed just like the Confederate flag.
7 posted on 06/22/2015 12:49:37 PM PDT by dhs12345
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I wish Tim Scott and Nikki Haly would mention the racist DEMOCRAT that put the confederate flag atop the statehouse in the first place, Governor then long-time senator Fritz Hollings!


8 posted on 06/22/2015 12:51:50 PM PDT by cotton1706
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Did he call for removing the US flag after Newtown and Columbine?


9 posted on 06/22/2015 12:52:02 PM PDT by armydawg505
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They should ban 32oz soft drinks while they’re at it.


10 posted on 06/22/2015 12:52:11 PM PDT by samtheman
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I'm actually kind of surprised that the Bars and Stars Confederate flag symbol was still even allowed in the state flag of a number of states even AFTER the Civil War ended in 1865. And even more so after the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
11 posted on 06/22/2015 12:52:43 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: cotton1706

True, and then Republican David Beasely moved it off the top of the capitol to just a spot on the grounds. It is part of SC history, it deserves a spot on the grounds.


12 posted on 06/22/2015 12:52:45 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright
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I Am Their Flag , by Mr. H.K. Edgerton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp3pRiw9aQk

https://www.facebook.com/hk.edgerton


13 posted on 06/22/2015 12:52:48 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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Still waiting for the Maryland and Illinois flag to be taken down..Maryland had 43 murders in May, obviously caused by a flag


14 posted on 06/22/2015 12:53:16 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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America is hamstrung by the tyranny of minorities.

It’s all about power, not principle.

Barack Obama can say NI**ER but if a white person says it in the same context he/she will be destroyed by the grievance industry led by the government and the press.


15 posted on 06/22/2015 12:53:29 PM PDT by Iron Munro (We may be paranoid but that doesn't mean they aren't really after us)
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To: jsanders2001

Probably the removal of all Confederate monuments.

But then again, haven’t we already seen instances in which schools with high populations of illegals are forcing the removal of the American flag from their flagpoles? Because of how the flag supposedly reflects minority oppression and offends them? All that micro-agression, you know.

End result, the ONLY flag that will likely be flying across America is the homo “rainbow” flag. And somehow, by that time it will seem a strangely appropriate symbol of what America has become. A nation of cowards and faggots.


16 posted on 06/22/2015 12:53:39 PM PDT by greene66
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The battle flag it isn’t, that flag had a red bar on the right.


17 posted on 06/22/2015 12:53:41 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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Unity in the GOP is a myth.


18 posted on 06/22/2015 12:54:11 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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What wusses. The liberals will just find something else to complain about like sports names. Oh wait....


19 posted on 06/22/2015 12:54:27 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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Ah, finally an idiotic liberal idea RINOs can leap on board with. Watch the stampede to see who can get to the TV cameras first. Never mind the 1st Amendment freedom of expression. I'd like one of these idiots to explain HOW the banning of a 150-year-old flag would have stopped the mass murder of innocent people by a drug-addled creep?

Interesting how they never seem to have an issue with the ISIS flag.

20 posted on 06/22/2015 12:54:35 PM PDT by ponygirl (Put. A. Bird. On. It.)
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