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1 posted on 06/12/2016 6:36:57 PM PDT by drewh
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President Barack Obama has ordered the lowering of the flag of the United States of America to half-staff as a mark of respect for the victims in a nightclub shooting in Orlando.

And will be breaking the law in the process?

4 U.S.C. §7. Position and manner of display

(m) The flag, when flown at half-staff, should be first hoisted to the peak for an instant and then lowered to the half-staff position. The flag should be again raised to the peak before it is lowered for the day. On Memorial Day the flag should be displayed at half-staff until noon only, then raised to the top of the staff. By order of the President, the flag shall be flown at half-staff upon the death of principal figures of the United States Government and the Governor of a State, territory, or possession, as a mark of respect to their memory.

Where in the law is he allowed to do this?

45 posted on 06/12/2016 7:15:39 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamiin Franklin)
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Don’t recall such a request after Ft Hood.


48 posted on 06/12/2016 7:18:12 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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Is he going to light up the White House with the rainbow lights again?

Would this have had the same reaction if the nightclub was a hetero one? I was sickened reading about it early this am before learning it was a “gay nightclub” and its being a “gay nightclub” didn’t move me one way or the other. It was a horror no one wants to imagine.


49 posted on 06/12/2016 7:20:10 PM PDT by EDINVA
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BOOJIT ! ! ! ! !

Queers aren't military heros ! ! !

52 posted on 06/12/2016 7:21:39 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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if I had a rainbow flag I would fly it at half-staff


56 posted on 06/12/2016 7:29:51 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse (America First !)
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Since I never fly the flag of the former Unted States, this order is completely irrelevant.


74 posted on 06/12/2016 8:28:27 PM PDT by fwdude (If we keep insisting on the lesser of two evils, that is exactly what they will give us from now on.)
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Soetero said the same damned speech after Ft Hood, Boston, Tennessee, Oregon,San Bernardino, this, and it seems like there have been more. Don’t all his peeches after “these tragedies...” sound almost the same word for word? I found myself listening today and thought is was a tape recorder.
I wonder if anyone can correlate his speeches after the attacks. I’ve a feeling they’re almost the same.
I wonder about just how deep that WH is in the muslim Brotherhood. It has to be a hostile place to work.
I wonder if the muslim B-hood ordered this or CAIR what mosque he was attending and if attending would there be secondary explosions if we blew it to hell.
I wonder if them muslims hate homosexuals so much and Obama loves them so much and since they’re all over the WH then who would Obama point a finger at?
Muslims who notoriously hate yet he said he’d ultimately stand with them and they’d be the first to kill him.?
I wonder who wins in a gun free zone?
Yes this is all rhetorical except the first part about all his speeches sounding the same. Has anyone really compiled all his speeches to show he’s saying the same thing?
I wonder how long they think they can keep spinning this crap and think we’re believing it.
I wonder if anyone at all is listening anymore because all the talking is the same horse%$%^.

Over and over and over again. It has to stop.


77 posted on 06/12/2016 8:56:26 PM PDT by Karliner ( Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28- 8:38"...this is the end of the beginning."WC)
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This half staff flag honor is done so often it has lost all meaning. I don’t think twice when I see a half staff flag as I doubt I would even know who was being honored nor really care. It’s about time this practice be ended or reserved only for significant national figures. With Obama it might be more appropriate to fly the flag upside down


78 posted on 06/12/2016 9:02:45 PM PDT by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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Lowering our zippers to half-staff would be more poignant.


79 posted on 06/12/2016 10:11:43 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (#GuiltyAsHELLary2016 #KimJungHill)
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Yet another PC statement from obama.

This is a direct result of his love affair with moslems and moslem ideology.


81 posted on 06/13/2016 1:51:56 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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Flush this turd!


82 posted on 06/13/2016 3:32:47 AM PDT by Renegade
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Yet it was not ordered for the Military flood victims at Ft Hood or the Blue Angel Pilot that was killed. Many people flew one at Half Mast on their FB pages.


83 posted on 06/13/2016 4:04:14 AM PDT by GailA (A politician that won't keep his word to Veterans/Military won't keep them to You!)
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I don’t lower my flag for filthy sodomites.

It’s sad we have to wait for a terrorist to do what a government ought to be doing but only after following due process of law. Our laws have been corrupted by the homosexualists.


86 posted on 06/13/2016 7:05:57 AM PDT by nonsporting
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What about the soldiers that were killed in Texas last week?????


88 posted on 06/13/2016 8:40:57 AM PDT by 1217Chic
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Terrorists stand down in the face of flags at half staff.

Sorry, don’t want to be insensitive, but flowers, candles, and flags at half staff is as far as the response seems to go with our overlords.


90 posted on 06/13/2016 7:00:25 PM PDT by Chaguito
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