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Confederate Flags Taken Down from Ft. Sumter
WCNC ^ | June 29, 2015 | WCNC

Posted on 06/30/2015 5:21:21 AM PDT by Raebie

Charleston, SC (WLTX) - The historic site where the first shots of the Civil War were fired is no longer flying versions of the Confederate flag above it.

The U.S. National Park Service ordered all flags to be taken down at Ft. Sumter in Charleston except for the American flag.

The banners that were removed are neither the traditional Confederate flag that's most typically displayed by individuals, nor is it the battle flag version that currently flies in front of the South Carolina State House. Instead, the flags were the less frequently seen national flags of the Confederacy.

The park service also took down the South Carolina state flag.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: confederate; dixie; flag
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This is insanity. It's a historical site.
1 posted on 06/30/2015 5:21:21 AM PDT by Raebie
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To: Raebie

And when they came for me there was no one left to...


2 posted on 06/30/2015 5:24:25 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Raebie

Breaking news from 1865.


3 posted on 06/30/2015 5:25:03 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Men need a reason to shop. Women need a place.)
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To: Raebie

Well, thanks to the actions of a majority of voters in 2008 and 2012, the inmates are now running the asylum. At this point in time, as far as degeneracy and perversion goes, the sky is the limit.


4 posted on 06/30/2015 5:26:02 AM PDT by sport
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What's next? Arresting people at historical re-enactments?

I've been thinking. The Confederate flag issue and the Supreme Court decision that forbids unintentional discrimination are about thought crimes. The government can control what you are thinking and what you should be thinking. Which is what Common Core does.

We're lost unless there's some meaningful pushback, and that wouldn't be pretty.

5 posted on 06/30/2015 5:26:51 AM PDT by grania
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To: Raebie

South Carolinians need to start considering secession...again.


6 posted on 06/30/2015 5:27:28 AM PDT by x1stcav (Why does Eleanor Clift always look like her private parts are causing her acute pain?)
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To: Raebie

Insanity? Or just an American version of Sharia?
it reminds me of the soviet Union, removing all images of former officials after they fell out of favor. Or maybe the Taliban blowing up the Buddha statues in the desert.
Or ISIS destroying any and everything they disagree with.

Hang on, it is going to get worse before it gets better.
As for me, I will be locked, loaded and hunkered down.


7 posted on 06/30/2015 5:28:28 AM PDT by Tupelo (I fell more like Phillip Nolan every day.)
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To: sport
At this point in time, as far as degeneracy and perversion goes, the sky is the limit.

Or the abyss...

8 posted on 06/30/2015 5:29:09 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: Raebie
These orders are coming from Obama. The director of the NPS is the same one that locked out the veterans from the WWII Memorial on Obama’s directive.
9 posted on 06/30/2015 5:30:07 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: grania
We're lost unless there's some meaningful pushback, and that wouldn't be pretty.

This is a nation of herbivores. There will be no pushback that the Left cannot handle.

10 posted on 06/30/2015 5:30:36 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: Raebie

Gov. sends yet another shot across the bow...letting the serfs know who’s in charge.


11 posted on 06/30/2015 5:32:29 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo
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“South Carolinians need to start considering secession...again.”

First step—fire on Ft Sumter—again.


12 posted on 06/30/2015 5:33:03 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: sport
Have they hoisted the butt-pirate rainbow flag yet? Does a tour of the fort feature continuous showings of Brokeback Mountain?

Obama Adminstration Spikes the Ball

13 posted on 06/30/2015 5:33:33 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Men need a reason to shop. Women need a place.)
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To: Raebie

They’ll replace it with the Rainbow Flag.


14 posted on 06/30/2015 5:38:03 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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South Carolinians need to start considering secession...again.

"South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum." - James Petigru, 1860

15 posted on 06/30/2015 5:40:10 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Raebie

Are we rapidly approaching our 19 April, 1775 moment?

I believe we are.

Gear up, people.


16 posted on 06/30/2015 5:41:23 AM PDT by Howie66 ("Tone down the tagline please." - Admin Moderator)
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To: Tupelo
Insanity? Or just an American version of Sharia?

A bit of both it looks like.

17 posted on 06/30/2015 5:41:47 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Old Sarge

You, as always, are correct. Our Forefathers were shooting before now.


18 posted on 06/30/2015 6:02:04 AM PDT by sport
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To: Raebie

Are we gonna have to shell the darn place into submission AGAIN?


19 posted on 06/30/2015 6:03:10 AM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: Howie66

I was thinking more on the lines of March 5th, 1770...


20 posted on 06/30/2015 6:04:58 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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