SC Sheriff Refuses To Lower Flag For Nelson Mandela

The Greenville News ^ | December 7, 2013 | Eric Connor

[DJ Taylor]

Our country is according one of its highest honors to Nelson Mandela, a man who was nothing more than a Communist terrorist with the blood of countless innocents on his hands, and the only reason he didn’t succeed in turning South Africa into a “Killing Field” that would have rivaled Pol Pot’s, Mao Tse Tung’s and Stalin’s Killing Fields was that he was captured and imprisoned before he could complete his Communist Revolution.

[Mamzelle]

Leave it to SC.

;'>

[Cicero]

I must say, it never occurred to me to half-staff my flag.

[trisham]

Sheriff Rick Clark told The Greenville News that he has ordered the flag be raised at the end of today because he said the honor of lowering flags to half-staff should be reserved for Americans.

"The flag at half-staff is for Americans' ultimate sacrifice for our country," Clark said. "We should never stray away from that."

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God bless him.

[BenLurkin]

It would have made more sense to lower for Margaret Thatcher — and even then I’m not sure it would be appropriate.

[DoodleDawg]

Sheriff Rick Clark told The Greenville News that he has ordered the flag be raised at the end of today because he said the honor of lowering flags to half-staff should be reserved for Americans.

I admit that I can't remember a time where it was lowered for a foreign head of state.

[dfwgator]

President George W. Bush ordered flags to fly at half-staff at the passing of Pope John Paul II in 2005, President Bill Clinton did so for Yitzhak Rabin (1995) and King Hussein of Jordan (1999), and President Ronald Reagan honored Anwar Sadat in 1981, but the historical precedent most often cited is President Lyndon Johnson’s bestowal of the honor in recognition of the passing of Winston Churchill in 1965.

[MV=PY]

Good for Sheriff Clark. He is correct.

[combat_boots]

Thank you.

[Yaelle]

I love SC.

[Argus]

We’d better be prepared to defend this man from all the usual crap that’s headed his way.

Sheriff Clark For President.

[Dalberg-Acton]

This from an article posted earlier:
MANDELA MANIA by Reed Irvine in 1990.

[Kickass Conservative]

Margaret Thatcher was more of an American that Obama or his lovely “all this for a damn flag” Wife.

[who knows what evil?]

Good to see that there still a few men in positions of authority that will stand for America!

[Irenic]

dittos

[RS_Rider]

I was proud to see that the flag in my borough was flying proud at full mast this morning. Our mayor is a self proclaimed progressive democrat so I doubt it will stay that way. We did good for one day at least.

[Former Fetus]

Me too! That’s why I live here!

[GeronL]

probably because its Pearl Harbor Day too

[wideawake]

Wait, there are rules? We can't just do whatever we feel like doing?

In lieu of lowering the American flag to mourn a South African citizen, maybe the Sheriff should have tweeted a picture of himself watching a news report about Mandela like the President did.

[DJ Taylor]

"We’d better be prepared to defend this man from all the usual crap that’s headed his way."

Yes, in a Communist block country, which ours now is, disobedience of your Communist Dictator could result in severe consequences.