Posted on 07/03/2015 5:03:19 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
Confederate flags have been removed from South Carolina’s Fort Sumter per a National Park Service directive barring Confederate flags in “units of the National Park system and related sites” with few exceptions.
The Civil War began on April 12, 1861, when South Carolinians fired on federals stationed in Fort Sumter.
According to the Washington Examiner, National Park Service director Jonathan Jarvis sent the following directive relating to the Confederate flag:
Confederate flags shall not be flown in units of the National Park system and related sites with the exception of specific circumstances where the flags provide historic context. … All superintendents and program managers should evaluate how Confederate flags are used … and remove the flags where appropriate.
Of all the texts contained in the directive, only the words “shall not be flown” are in bold.
Because of the historicity of the site–the fact it was where the first shots of the Civil War were fired–many have argued that the necessary “historic context” for the Confederate flag is clear. But WMBF reports that the National Park Service has yet to concur. Rather, “a spokesperson at Fort Sumter said the site doesn’t meet the exception for the flag to be flown right now.”
On June 26 Breitbart News reported that the Gettysburg National Military Park bookstore pulled all items “featuring the Confederate flag” from its shelves. The bookstore’s actions were prompted by a National Park Service request, wherein “concessionaries” were asked to quit selling the Confederate flag following the attack on Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Carolina
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We are on sick society!
Goddamn NAZIs.
Washington and Jefferson had slaves. Their monuments must come down. Obama’s ancestors had slaves. He must be put in prison. Hey, works for me.
This is DISGUSTING!!!!
By the way, I can no longer pray for the President and other U.S. public officials in Divine Liturgy. That’s just like my Serbian Orthodox priest!!!!
I WILL pray for the safety of U.S. armed forces, however, especially since they are sent to places they don’t belong by the warmongering obama administration!!!!
AMERICA is gone.
Except for the 50 state US flag ALL flags have been removed from Ft Sumter. The two Confederate national flags (first and second, neither of which are he flags the Proggies consider offensive), the two Civil War US flags and the SC state flag.
A friend of mine there says the fort looks like an antenae farm with all the bare flagpoles.
Sick!
My kin would give the order to fire again...
The left own social media and internet companies. Big problem.
Morons.
What a slap in the face insult.
They cannot take away our Southern heritage or our Southern pride.
Afraid so! It was gone the day King Obama was first elected. He is a communists black Muslim and entities like the communists MSM, Hollywood, and most of the politicians in Washing and around the Country just needed a leader to put the nail in America's coffin.
All these idiots make a living thru line items in a government budget, zero it out and in this time of coming leanness we hold the advantage.
No historic context for the confederate flag at Ft Sumter??
I have no words for this——just much head shaking.
Thank God I’m old-—I’ve lived through the best of it.
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And the Confederate flag flying at Fort Sumter doesn't provide historic context? Maybe they're trying to erase the fact that Major Anderson surrendered the fort to the CSA, and that the Confederate flag actually flew there through the war. Rewriting history, one day at a time.
Hell Obama’s kin SDLD slaves to Indonesia. Any Kenyon that was not sold to Indonesia was a slave trader. Until the Industrial Revolution, much of North had slaves.
Isn’t that one of the stupidest things liberal minds could conceive - censoring and removing an historical object from an historical site after 150-plus years have passed.
Slavery existed for thousands of years before the confederate flag ever flew over Fort Sumter. The flag does not represent slavery, but instead represents a confederation of states who believed they could secede from the union and form a new country - the C.S.A. The war was fought over states rights, not the issue of slavery. The abolition of slavery was an issue before and during the Civil War but did not directly cause the war.
Many southerners fought for and died for the confederacy. Have these people no respect for the confederate dead and our southern heritage. I hope they can take what they give because its going to be cold day in hell before we apologize for this flag and it’s true meaning. Hiding behind racism and slavery, it is that true meaning they fear the most. Screw’em and the donkey they rode in on.
here’s a picture from bing, of a Confederate flag over fort sumter.
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