Posted on 03/02/2002 3:19:35 AM PST by shuckmaster
COLUMBIA - The NAACP plans to begin "border patrols" today to discourage visitors from spending money in South Carolina, part of an ongoing protest over the Confederate flag flying on Statehouse grounds.
The civil rights organization plans to picket the eight welcome centers along the state's borders with North Carolina and Georgia. Volunteers also will hand out leaflets urging travelers to keep their money in their pockets.
"We're prepared at all of the centers. We won't be surprised if they're at North Augusta," Marion Edmonds, spokesman for the South Carolina Parks, Recreation & Tourism Department, said Friday.
The department's employees staff the state's nine welcome centers, which are Department of Transportation property.
"I don't think there will be any activity that will block people from using the centers like they normally do," Mr. Edmonds said. "And our employees are not going to get involved with any discussion of the issue. Our role is not to be a commentator."
He said, to his knowledge, the protests on the state welcome centers' grounds are a first.
Attorney General Charlie Condon has said he will sue the NAACP if the patrols go forward and law enforcement officials will be out in full force when the three-hour protests begin.
"The governor is disappointed in this effort," said Cortney Owings, spokeswoman for Democratic Gov. Jim Hodges. "If it is successful, it could end up hurting African-American businesses in South Carolina."
The national NAACP boycott began in January 2000 when the Confederate flag still flew atop the Statehouse dome.
In July of that year, a compromise among lawmakers removed that flag and others that flew in the House and Senate chambers, putting a similar banner up at the Confederate Soldier Monument on Statehouse grounds.
While the compromise satisfied many groups, the NAACP continued its boycott, saying the flag still flew in a position of sovereignty.
Mr. Edmonds said the boycott had a definite impact on the tourism industry when it began, but that has changed.
Dwight James, the executive director of the South Carolina NAACP, has said the organization was not involved in that compromise. He said the compromise didn't satisfy the group's requirements.
In the case of the United States, one's people are the people of the whole United States. The sovereigntyt of this country rests on all the people. There was no doubt of that in Washington's time. It was after Washington's generation had passed away that the lies began.
Walt
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
He has admitted it on this forum.
Also be advised that you are dealing with a liberal who regularly trolls FR. Proof in his own words below. The "hot" link takes you directly to where he admitted it. I hope he plans to stay away from South Carolina; he would not like it here. I am glad you are here. If you have any more of the intellectual and moral heirs of Sam Adams and the old Yankee patriots in your sphere please tell them about SC and get them down here to counter the Boobettes and Garthettes who are moving in off Woodruff Rd. Good Northern people have told me that Massachusetts is a fine place to leave.
To: Leesylvanian
Keep in mind when dealing with WP that you're dealing with a man who favors the government's rights/authority over those of the people. He voted for Clinton twice. 'Nuff said!
Well, I've never said I voted for Clinton twice, so I am glad you will be glad to post a retraction. What I said was that I had never voted for a Republican presidential candidate. I voted for John Anderson in 1980. In '84 I voted Democratic. Same in '88. In '92 I DID vote for Clinton, although I was for Perot until he went batty. In'96 I didn't vote. In '00, I did vote for Al Gore.
Walt
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