Posted on 12/07/2013 2:56:25 PM PST by DJ Taylor
The American flag that flies over the Pickens County Sheriff's Office will be raised high tonight despite an order by President Barack Obama that flags across the country be lowered to half-staff to honor the death of iconic South African leader Nelson Mandela.
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."
The flag has flown at half-staff and will continue to during daylight hours today in honor of a Low country law enforcement officer who was killed and in honor of Pearl Harbor Day, Clark said.
However, come tonight, the flag will be raised, he said.
On Thursday, Obama ordered that flags be flown at half-staff on public grounds until sunset Monday.
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To order our flag to half staff by that arrogant pos for a communist is outrageous
“It should have been at half staff for Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day”
You’re right, and back up to full staff on the 8th.
No direct disrespect of Mandella but he’s as American as the imposter is.
That is a completely different situation. Pope John Paul II in 2005, was the Holy Father for all Catholics, not just those in Rome
Why should we lower the American Flag
for a dead KGB Terrorist ?
Do ME a big favor, and explain to me the differences between the bureaucracies that ran Poland then, and the bureaucracies that are in CONTROL of us now.
My words may be more carefully chosen than you can understand.
If you don't understand institutionalization, then you have NO CLUE what is happening to this country now, PATRIOT OR NOT.
That's not an insult, that's an observation.
I've written hundreds of papers on the phenomena of "institutionalization."
You need to study up on what "institutionalization" really is, then you will truly understand what I am talking about.
Again, no insult or diss intended. Study up, get into the real groove about what is going on.
Rant and flame at me all you will, this is the last time I will address you.
Have a really good evening. I mean that.
Churchill was an American and a head of state.
I find the word "despite" surprising. I am completely indifferent to the commands of that hateful communist. I will follow any demand that he has the power to directly and immediately enforce against me personally, to the extent that he and his minions can compel me to act, and ignore the rest. I don't respect him enough to obey out of loyalty to a government that is no longer of the people, by the people, or for the people. I simply ignore those destructive acts that I cannot stop and hope he will fade into a richly deserved oblivion sooner rather than later.
Reagan was wrong and so was Bush and Johnson.
I just got off the phone with the Hampton Inn in Goodyear, AZ where I was staying last week on a business trip. They lowered their flags including the US flag - I told them I was outraged and severely disappointed to see that - especially as a veteran
In this day and age our young people ignore and deny that over the last forty years Communists have slowly crept into and now control much of our government, but when this is brought to their attention they call themselves patriots because of their ignorance and chastise those who attempt to enlighten them.
The other day at the office, one of my young co-workers asked me how it was that I served multiple tours in Vietnam as a combat infantryman and I didn’t get PTSD. My rather flippant answer was “I didn’t get PTSD in Vietnam, I gave it.”
However, this PTSD question made me wonder what PTSD is and what the symptoms are, so I did a little research on the subject and found that I did indeed possess symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) concerning a traumatic and very stressful incident that occurred during my last tour in Vietnam. I was a professional soldier when the traumatic incident occurred and had accumulated over several years in Vietnam engaged occasionally in close combat with a vicious and cunningly capable enemy, but the traumatic event was not as a result of close combat with this enemy.
One day when I was totally focused on closing with and destroying the enemy, something caught my eye, I looked around and found a new enemy had unexpectedly appeared behind me; it was the American people. The same Democrat Party who had originally sent me to Vietnam promising that, “We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and success of liberty,” had now sided with the Communists I was fighting. They were parading in the streets of the United States under a Viet Cong flag, were quoting from Mao’s Red Book, and were spitting on and flinging insults at returning Vietnam Veterans. Then, a Democrat led Congress cut off funding for the Vietnam War, American combat troops were withdrawn and we abandoned a valiant ally to their fate.
I was ordered out of the country in 1972, and when I arrived at Travis Air Force Base, purposely in the dark of the night, I was advised to change out of my uniform and put on civilian clothing to avoid being attacked by the American people when I entered San Francisco.
I wasn't at all surprised when a few decades later these same people elected a Marxist-Communist as President of what was once my country.
Yes, the deep, burning hatred I feel for the Democrat Party to this day could be diagnosed as a symptom of PTSD, and I assure you, every Vietnam Veteran I know feels the same way.
“I think that the state of our mainstream media can be in some careful way compared to the state of the media during late Communism.”
Whatever. The state of South Carolina has 20 of Holder’s racist thugs locked up, facing up to 30 years in prison.
South Carolina has two battalions of state-sponsored militia ready to move into action
I’m wondering why people in other states can’t duplicate what SC is doing.
The Few... The True...
Audit coming.
Johnny boy Effin Kennedy.
His pig brother Teddy, was instrumental in the debacle that was the "Fall of Saigon.
I was sitting in a "fire point" at Danang, on the last day, 1973. The rockets and mortars poured down on us like rain. Right up to 30 seconds to 8.
Oh Boy, did they HUMILIATE us.
In early '75, (April, how could I forget?) I then was "privileged" to serve in the refugee camp in Subic Bay, Grande Island.
You don't know how may times those people looked me in the face and asked: "What happened to 'pay any price?'"
My only response was that Teddy was murdering pig.
You just kicked up a lot of stuff that I have been sitting on for a few years. BOOYA, not your fault.
Yes, the deep, burning hatred I feel for the Democrat Party to this day could be diagnosed as a symptom of PTSD, and I assure you, every Vietnam Veteran I know feels the same way.
Friend, This one KNOWS EXACTLY HOW YOU FEEL.
P.S. Vodka helps.
You’re screaming like a little girl with your caps. Study our Founders and their measured response to the tyranny of King George. I do want you to join our warrior community. Cheers, buddy.
Aww Shux,
Cummon there now Serg, there weren’t THAT MANY screamin caps in that post!
You should see when I REALLY get going.
Have a HAPPY.
I gotta stop now, its WAYY past my bed time.
Sherriff Clark is a hero to me.
Before I would half staff my flag I would take it down.
I decide when my flag goes to half mast, not someone who bows to foreign rulers...I can obviously make better decisions.
“I gotta stop now, its WAYY past my bed time.”
Cool. Enjoy a good night’s sleep, and best wishes to you and yours.
Zzzzzzzzzzzz...
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