Posted on 06/22/2015 11:48:57 AM PDT by ghost of stonewall jackson
Edited on 06/22/2015 12:13:58 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
During a press conference on Monday, Gov. Nikki Haley will ask that the Confederate flag on the grounds of South Carolina's capitol be removed, according to the Post and Courier. The move from the popular governor (reelected last year by 15 points and with 79 percent approval last April) will almost certainly help encourage the state legislature to vote for removal. As it stands, the legislature needs a two-thirds vote to make that happen -- a high bar.
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The Confederate flag issue is being used as a red herring to distract from the real causes of this tragedy. The people who want it removed from the state capitol, have wanted it removed before. They are just using this incident as an opportunity to further that agenda to justify taking the flag down. Much like Obama uses all incidents involving blacks as evidence of racism. Or Obama using violent crimes as an excuse to try and take our guns away from us. Or Obama using the cops-killed-the-poor-innocent-gentle-giant-black-kid to try and federalize law enforcement throughout the nation.
I'm pretty sure that there are not.
I am happy to be called a jackal or jackass. Which of the two are you for, slavery or secession?
Remember the old saying, “Save your Confederate money, Boys, THE SOUTH SHALL RISE AGAIN!”
lol. I bet many still are keeping that close to the chest. Handing it down generation after generation.....no this time we mean it, it will be worth millions....no really.....we are there. HAHAHAHA.
I don’t have it handy but the official U.S. Army figures show just about a two to one ratio.
I even wrote a letter to the editor of the Tulsa paper around 1974, correcting a story they printed. They acknowledged that I was correct.
approximately 365,000 federals died and 260,000 confederates, for an appoximately 1 1/2 to 1 ratio
And a lot of them were Irish immigrants hussled off one boat and on to another bound for US Army training camps, lured with a promise of a new suit of clothes and a pittance pay.
When you have nothing but the clothes on your back and poor as a rock, must have seemed a good deal, until that is, they were marched into battlefields as cannon fodder.
She must be thrilled to get good press from the commies at the WP.
The GOP is dead, they just don’t know it yet.
Will other Southern States be compelled to follow South Carolina’s lead?
Lordy, [stuff] just got real
Do you still beat you wife?
Actually I am for secession and think it was totally legal.
Do you agree with Lee or Grant about slavery?
Sometimes you have to rattle the cage to get some to realize that they need to wake up to reality.
let them take it down at the capitol , fly it in more & more front yards
Maybe old HK can show up and do his presentation of
I Am Their Flag on the SC capitol steps as they lower
it for the last time .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp3pRiw9aQk
I will write and ask him
If she caves to this she is destroying the first amendment. Also she is allowing the media to shift from a non-story of a drug using nutcase to a non-discussion about the flag. Damn can’t people just LEAVE MY WORLD ALONE !!! Every time I tun around, some Lib has taken another piece out of my world. My church, my diet, my taxes going ro pay for extravagant vacations and Prince concerts...now they mess it’s which flag I can fly.
she wants someone to pick her as VP nominee.
Who here still supports segregation? That is why this flag went up in the first place
She is a coward, and a traitor to her people.
just wait until the government wants to get involved in your medicare, fellow patriot
It had nothing to do with the Confederate flag, but the brand has been tarnished (or destroyed) by him, so to speak.
I think in a lot of ways supporters of the Confederate flag as a non-racist “localist” symbol should have been more vigilant and outspoken in preventing loonies from adopting it. Roof wasn’t attracted by the flag, but by a group of racist loonies who appealed to his insanity and who unfortunately were often shown with Confederate flags.
The way it is now, however, after these shootings, nobody will be able to look at that flag again without having seriously negative thoughts, and it shouldn’t fly over official buildings.
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