Gov. Nikki Haley Calls For Removal Of Confederate Flag From Capitol Grounds

[Ravi]

I say she's flailing after her stupidity about not flying the con flag at half mast. But if she is sincere, kudos to her.

She couldn't fly it at half mast.
there is no mechanism to lower it to half mast.
It has 2 positions, up, and down.

It takes a 2/3s vote by the General Assembly to move it from one position to the other.

All the governor can do is REQUEST they take that vote.

And she didn't even do that. Personally I would have gone out and lit it on fire if I were her and taken my lumps.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Gov. Nikki Haley Calls For Removal Of Confederate Flag From Capitol Grounds


Will the GILF tear down that flag?

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) said on Monday that the Confederate flag must come down from the grounds of the state capitol.

Haley's call came after a massacre last week at a historic black church in Charleston, S.C. The suspect, Dylan Roof, appeared to have white supremacist ties and was often pictured with the flag.

Haley said Roof had a "sick and twisted view of the flag" and noted that most South Carolinians who support the flag view it as a "symbol of respect, integrity and duty" and as a way to memorialize and honor ancestors. For others, she noted, the flag is a “deeply offensive symbol of a brutally oppressive past.”

During the news conference, Haley said the "heart and soul of South Carolina" was "starting to mend” following the shooting and noted that the removal of the flag from the state capitol was a step in this healing process.

“My hope is that by removing a symbol that divides us, we can move forward as a state in harmony and we can honor the nine blessed souls who are now in heaven,” she said.

Haley said she would use her authority as governor to force the General Assembly back into session if they did not have a debate over the removal of the flag.

I think she is full of shit about how "most South Carolinians" view the flag.

Duty? WTF is she even talking about.

Just tear it down, already!!

Someone should remove her.

Your southern avatar offends me.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Gov. Nikki Haley Calls For Removal Of Confederate Flag From Capitol Grounds


Will the GILF tear down that flag?

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) said on Monday that the Confederate flag must come down from the grounds of the state capitol.

Haley's call came after a massacre last week at a historic black church in Charleston, S.C. The suspect, Dylan Roof, appeared to have white supremacist ties and was often pictured with the flag.

Haley said Roof had a "sick and twisted view of the flag" and noted that most South Carolinians who support the flag view it as a "symbol of respect, integrity and duty" and as a way to memorialize and honor ancestors. For others, she noted, the flag is a “deeply offensive symbol of a brutally oppressive past.”

During the news conference, Haley said the "heart and soul of South Carolina" was "starting to mend” following the shooting and noted that the removal of the flag from the state capitol was a step in this healing process.

“My hope is that by removing a symbol that divides us, we can move forward as a state in harmony and we can honor the nine blessed souls who are now in heaven,” she said.

Haley said she would use her authority as governor to force the General Assembly back into session if they did not have a debate over the removal of the flag.

I think she is full of shit about how "most South Carolinians" view the flag.

Duty? WTF is she even talking about.

Just tear it down, already!!

The lefts criticism of Haley from the very start of this entire tragic story, has been uncalled for and absurd.
She has shown nothing but class from the start.

 

[Sonny Clark]

Gov. Nikki Haley Calls For Removal Of Confederate Flag From Capitol Grounds


Will the GILF tear down that flag?

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) said on Monday that the Confederate flag must come down from the grounds of the state capitol.

Haley's call came after a massacre last week at a historic black church in Charleston, S.C. The suspect, Dylan Roof, appeared to have white supremacist ties and was often pictured with the flag.

Haley said Roof had a "sick and twisted view of the flag" and noted that most South Carolinians who support the flag view it as a "symbol of respect, integrity and duty" and as a way to memorialize and honor ancestors. For others, she noted, the flag is a “deeply offensive symbol of a brutally oppressive past.”

During the news conference, Haley said the "heart and soul of South Carolina" was "starting to mend” following the shooting and noted that the removal of the flag from the state capitol was a step in this healing process.

“My hope is that by removing a symbol that divides us, we can move forward as a state in harmony and we can honor the nine blessed souls who are now in heaven,” she said.

Haley said she would use her authority as governor to force the General Assembly back into session if they did not have a debate over the removal of the flag.

I think she is full of shit about how "most South Carolinians" view the flag.

Duty? WTF is she even talking about.

Just tear it down, already!!

Someone should remove her.

Your southern avatar offends me.

Well, do you want an apology, or what? Offend easily, do ya? Remember, you can please some of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time. I'm sure that you'll get over it and survive. Take two aspirins and relax for awhile. You'll feel better afterwards. If you don't mind me asking, "how heavy is that chip on your shoulder?"

 

[rightwinger]

Gov. Nikki Haley Calls For Removal Of Confederate Flag From Capitol Grounds


Will the GILF tear down that flag?

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) said on Monday that the Confederate flag must come down from the grounds of the state capitol.

Haley's call came after a massacre last week at a historic black church in Charleston, S.C. The suspect, Dylan Roof, appeared to have white supremacist ties and was often pictured with the flag.

Haley said Roof had a "sick and twisted view of the flag" and noted that most South Carolinians who support the flag view it as a "symbol of respect, integrity and duty" and as a way to memorialize and honor ancestors. For others, she noted, the flag is a “deeply offensive symbol of a brutally oppressive past.”

During the news conference, Haley said the "heart and soul of South Carolina" was "starting to mend” following the shooting and noted that the removal of the flag from the state capitol was a step in this healing process.

“My hope is that by removing a symbol that divides us, we can move forward as a state in harmony and we can honor the nine blessed souls who are now in heaven,” she said.

Haley said she would use her authority as governor to force the General Assembly back into session if they did not have a debate over the removal of the flag.

I think she is full of shit about how "most South Carolinians" view the flag.

Duty? WTF is she even talking about.

Just tear it down, already!!

The lefts criticism of Haley from the very start of this entire tragic story, has been uncalled for and absurd.
She has shown nothing but class from the start.

I agree

Nikki Haley has been very good in this crisis

 

[Katzndogz]

Haley has made an error of monumental proportions. She said, whether she believes it or not, that removing the flag would promote unity. She can pretend unity. She won't really get unity. The only thing removing the flag will promote is another fissure of resentment.

 

[Ravi]

The only thing removing the flag will promote is another fissure of resentment.

That's true. The retards will keep pretending it doesn't mean what it means and probably kill some more black people because of it. But it still needs to go. The traitors should have never been encouraged to continue flying it after they were defeated.

 

[Katzndogz]

As Roof posted photographs of himself wearing a GoldsGym tshirt shouldn't we be banning GoldsGym?

 

[Katzndogz]

The only thing removing the flag will promote is another fissure of resentment.

That's true. The retards will keep pretending it doesn't mean what it means and probably kill some more black people because of it. But it still needs to go. The traitors should have never been encouraged to continue flying it after they were defeated.

No black people were killed because of the Confederate flag. Dylaan Roof had more affection for Rhodesia than the Confederacy.

I see this morning that the KKK blanketed Fullerton with recruitment flyers. No doubt this incident will increase their numbers. The flag goes beyond South Carolina.

 

[Stephanie]

As Roof posted photographs of himself wearing a GoldsGym tshirt shouldn't we be banning GoldsGym?

I would say yes.

 

[Ravi]

As Roof posted photographs of himself wearing a GoldsGym tshirt shouldn't we be banning GoldsGym?

Is someone flying it on state property?

 

[Auld Phart]

I say she's flailing after her stupidity about not flying the con flag at half mast. But if she is sincere, kudos to her.

She couldn't fly it at half mast.
there is no mechanism to lower it to half mast.
It has 2 positions, up, and down.

It takes a 2/3s vote by the General Assembly to move it from one position to the other.

All the governor can do is REQUEST they take that vote.

And she didn't even do that. Personally I would have gone out and lit it on fire if I were her and taken my lumps.

Legislatively, her hands are tied.

Why do fools wants to flaunt the laws?

 

[rightwinger]

I say she's flailing after her stupidity about not flying the con flag at half mast. But if she is sincere, kudos to her.

She couldn't fly it at half mast.
there is no mechanism to lower it to half mast.
It has 2 positions, up, and down.

It takes a 2/3s vote by the General Assembly to move it from one position to the other.

All the governor can do is REQUEST they take that vote.

And she didn't even do that. Personally I would have gone out and lit it on fire if I were her and taken my lumps.

Legislatively, her hands are tied.

Why do fools wants to flaunt the laws?

Legislatively, she will call for a vote

The pressure is on the state legislators...I bet they fold

 

[Ravi]

I say she's flailing after her stupidity about not flying the con flag at half mast. But if she is sincere, kudos to her.

She couldn't fly it at half mast.
there is no mechanism to lower it to half mast.
It has 2 positions, up, and down.

It takes a 2/3s vote by the General Assembly to move it from one position to the other.

All the governor can do is REQUEST they take that vote.

And she didn't even do that. Personally I would have gone out and lit it on fire if I were her and taken my lumps.

Legislatively, her hands are tied.

Why do fools wants to flaunt the laws?

She couldn't open her mouth and say hey, why don't you people get off your asses and take that flag down?

 

[rightwinger]

The best justification for tearing it down is to think about how much it will piss off Dylann Root

 

[Auld Phart]

I say she's flailing after her stupidity about not flying the con flag at half mast. But if she is sincere, kudos to her.

She couldn't fly it at half mast.
there is no mechanism to lower it to half mast.
It has 2 positions, up, and down.

It takes a 2/3s vote by the General Assembly to move it from one position to the other.

All the governor can do is REQUEST they take that vote.

And she didn't even do that. Personally I would have gone out and lit it on fire if I were her and taken my lumps.

Legislatively, her hands are tied.

Why do fools wants to flaunt the laws?

She couldn't open her mouth and say hey, why don't you people get off your asses and take that flag down?

Seriously?

You don't pay attention to the subject you mouth off on?

The General Assembly is in the midst of budget deliberations that have to be finished before any other matter can be considered.

She's a Governor, not an Empress and has to fo9llow protocol.

(Put down the Archie comic book, and watch the news for a change)

 

[rightwinger]

I think Ronald Reagan said it best..

"Nikki Haley, Tear down that flag!"

 

[Gadawg73]

Another freedom lost to liberal PC nonsense. ......

A little history lesson on the flying of the Confederate Battle Flag at South Carolina State Capitol, first flown as the Battle Flag of the Army of Northern of Virginia.
1 South Carolina seceded in 1860 with a declaration drafted by Christopher Memminger due "to increasing hostility on the part of non slave holding states to the institution of slavery"
2. South Carolinian secessionist Edmund Ruffin fired the first shot of the Civil War in Charleston, South Carolina
3. The Stars and Bars was flown as the rallying cry of Confederate troops.
3. The Civil War ended June 17, 1865 and Ruffin wrapped himself in the Confederate Battle Flag and blew his brains out.
4. The flags were folded up and kept in the closet and appropriately used at memorials or cemeteries for the brave men the pansy ass plantation owners sent to be slaughtered, the majority by hunger and disease and not battle.
5. There was no need to fly the flag for the next 70 years as Jim Crow reigned unchallenged. African Americans that challenged Jim Crow hung by nooses from tall trees
6. In the late 1940s the Dixiecrats revolted against Harry Truman when he desegregated the armed forces and supported anti lynching bills. The flag was once again waved at their opposition rallies. At the Democratic convention in July 1948 9 southern states backed our Senator Richard Russell over Truman and Confederate Battle Flags were waving to the sound of Dixie. Later in Birmingham Alabama they nominated Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. Sales of the Battle Flag exploded in the south.
7. Over the next decade the flag was a staple of Klan rallies.
8. In 1961 South Carolina in defiance to being forced to integrate their schools took out the Confederate Battle Flag that had not flown on state property in 79 years and flew it to show their support of segregation and separate but equal.

What in the hell is wrong with allowing black kids to go to white schools and end segregation? That is why the flag was flown after 79 years and that is why it should be taken down. I have no problems with memorials and cemetery respect for the Confederate soldiers that fell and were abandoned by the wealthy plantation class that ran an entire economic system on slave labor.

You just demonstrated the bigoted selective reference of bastardized use of the flag while disregarding its actual heritage.

Uh, the thread is the flying of the flag at SC State Capitol which has nothing to do with heritage.
If it had anything to do with heritage how come SC never flew that flag from 1865-1961.
I am as southern as it gets, born and raised in deep south and lived here for all of my 60+ years.
Your bunk about the flying of the stars and bars at SC State Capitol because of heritage is steaming Bull Shit.
Heritage is when we bring the flag out for ceremonies at memorials and cemeteries for our fallen who the Confederate leaders, not their military, sent to starve to death and die of disease.
I know heritage and also know South Carolina brought it back in 1961 after 96 years because of their opposition to integration.
Claiming that was heritage is selective bastardized use of what really happened.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Gov. Nikki Haley Calls For Removal Of Confederate Flag From Capitol Grounds


Will the GILF tear down that flag?

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) said on Monday that the Confederate flag must come down from the grounds of the state capitol.

Haley's call came after a massacre last week at a historic black church in Charleston, S.C. The suspect, Dylan Roof, appeared to have white supremacist ties and was often pictured with the flag.

Haley said Roof had a "sick and twisted view of the flag" and noted that most South Carolinians who support the flag view it as a "symbol of respect, integrity and duty" and as a way to memorialize and honor ancestors. For others, she noted, the flag is a “deeply offensive symbol of a brutally oppressive past.”

During the news conference, Haley said the "heart and soul of South Carolina" was "starting to mend” following the shooting and noted that the removal of the flag from the state capitol was a step in this healing process.

“My hope is that by removing a symbol that divides us, we can move forward as a state in harmony and we can honor the nine blessed souls who are now in heaven,” she said.

Haley said she would use her authority as governor to force the General Assembly back into session if they did not have a debate over the removal of the flag.

I think she is full of shit about how "most South Carolinians" view the flag.

Duty? WTF is she even talking about.

Just tear it down, already!!

Someone should remove her.

Your southern avatar offends me.

Well, do you want an apology, or what? Offend easily, do ya? Remember, you can please some of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time. I'm sure that you'll get over it and survive. Take two aspirins and relax for awhile. You'll feel better afterwards. If you don't mind me asking, "how heavy is that chip on your shoulder?"

I was being sarcastic.

 

[Sunni Man]

People act like the Confederate flag drove Dylann Roof to murder.

The guy is a mentally ill psychopath.

He would have committed the same senseless act even if the flag never existed. ......