Try as it might, South Carolina simply cannot escape the Confederate flag.
The latest drama surrounding the controversial banner took place on the campus of The Citadel – South Carolina’s government-subsidized military college.
The Citadel’s board of visitors voted 9-3 last year to remove the banner, but they can’t take the flag down unless the S.C. General Assembly amends the so-called “Heritage Act,” which protects historical displays and monuments.
After removing the flag from the grounds of the S.C. State House last July, lawmakers have shown absolutely no appetite to amend that law further.
Last week someone took matters into his own hands … or tried to.
According to our sources, Charleston County sheriff’s deputies apprehended a middle-aged black man for attempting to remove the flag from the Citadel chapel. We’re working to confirm details of the arrest, but sources tell us the incident took place on Friday, March 4.
Developing …
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How about we replace that terrible flag with a regular American flag?
What next? A regular American flag is a terrible flag?
I have never called the American flag terrible. I call the Confederate flag terrible because what it represented was terrible. I think America is great, unlike Trump supporters.
Flip I want you to take this in the right context. Is there a Cross on the church you attend?
I am the REAL Flip.Cheating your boss again today?
LMAO!!! If you are the REAL Flip isn’t that what you do?
My question is, is that cross on fire?
Yes, Jesus died on the cross to pay for our sins, naturally the cross is a symbol of that sacrifice.
And? Crusades? Inquisition? My point is arguing about symbols and the context in which they were used is basically a debate sinkhole. No matter how hard you scream “Hey! Redneck assholes, quit using a symbol I love!” it won’t help. Stupid is as stupid does.-Mama Gump.
I bet your kids are really fucked up.
Are they mixed?
Disgusting that you would bring someone’s kids into this. I will pray for you.
People have done horrible things in the name of Christ however the symbol originated from Jesus dying on the cross. The origins of the confederate flag are plagued with racist mentality, just read the cornerstone speech if you don’t think so.
I can see how people would be offended at the confederate flag, just as I can see how people are offended at the swastika flag. Freedom of speech means government can’t stop people from flying their own flag however it does not stop government from eradicating instances where it is flying the flag itself.
The American flag is terrible, America did away with slavery. Why do you think the south seceded in the first place? Didn’t you read any of the speeches?
Caught me.Our real goal is removing the American flag as we Bernie supporting communists hate America.
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan said Wednesday that the American flag should be taken down instead of the Confederate flag.
I support him.
You need to seek Christ young man, there is still time to repent.
put his butt under the jail and throw away the key.
I’d like to post his bail.
Signed,
A Real American
Not surprised.We love law breakers,don’t we?BEEERRRRNIIIEEEEE!
pogo, you can use your real name, bring those tiny little hands over. I’ll make you feel better.
As you seem to have flipped out, your name does seem appropriate.
You mean the flag?
Put him in my butt! LMAO!!!
The so-called Heritage Act is nothing more than a legal veil for White Supremacists. A flag representing an enemy of the United States has no business flying on any military or quasi-military institution in this country.
With you.Hate America just like you do.We just had a traitor in the wHite House for 8 years.We need a communist to finish the job he started of destroying America,GO BERN!
I love America. I regret that it has become one of the most ignorant nations in the developed world, with right-wing nut cases attempting to turn it into a theocracy of morons.
Donald is supported by David Duke so I support him naturally, he will make America great (and white) again!
Actually some good points.
LoL, Pogo, what part of President Donald J. Trump saying he disavowed D. Duke did you not understand? What a race bating troll you are! Agent Provocateur, are you working for the FEDS or CIA?
Duke still supports him and I support Duke!
It is already that!
You hate America just like I do.
Your hatred for Obama because he’s black gives us a lot in common! Want to join forces?
Obama is a loser like me.Spot on.
I do not hate Obama but you can rest assured he has done more to destroy the moral fabric of America than all the Presidents we have had. He is inept,hates police and white folks and has no idea how to do anything but stir up trouble.I am to old probably to live long enough to see it but America is on a downward spiral it will never recover from. The only thing that can save us is a real Revolution and I am not to sure that would work at this late stage.
Obama saved America from the likes of George Bush and Dick Cheney, god bless Obama. Not a perfect president but we are so much better off now than 8 years ago.
And another thing.As a flaming pervert and homosexual and dog lover I am one step closer to marrying Fido with the SCOTUS ruling allowing us perps legal marital bliss.
If there was any doubt who this Imposter Flip is, here are a few of his previous aliases:
Dem A. Knotzi, Hank ‘flip’ Geepers, Flip Coscoe, CENSORED at Fits U, Duzlie Fartin, nchuckler, Nick Chucker, The Great Awakening 2016, TARevolution, pogo (guest), Hispan Sllutzze, deportdemZwetZbachs, Rockie Veranalspic, Rockie Veranalspicsterheimer, Clemson +2 Buckeyes + 16, Rocky Verdunce, R. Dudley Verputz, Ms. Rocky Verdud, Dabotard’s Family Reunion, Jethroe Bodine Verdad, KoRan DemaThumper, rockyverdadsuglyclan, Flip R. Morals Sr., rockyverdadsuglylies, rockyverdadeadbeattaxcheat, Flip R. Morals, and: Rockysuglylies (flagged for copying another’s avatar: lasted mere minutes)
If there was any doubt who tomstickler is , here are a few of his nicknames from Buckeye Land:
anus – butt
arse – butt
arsehole – butt
ass – butt
ass-hat – idiot
ass-jabber
ass-pirate
assbag – idiot
assbandit
assbite – idiot
assclown – butt
asscock – idiot
asscracker – butt
asses – butts
assface – butt
asshat – butt
asshead – idiot
asshole – jerk
asslick – idiot
asslicker – Buttlicker
assmonkey – idiot
assmunch – idiot
assmuncher – butt
assshit – idiot
assshole – butt
asssucker – idiot
asswad – butt
asswipe – butt
you are a fucking idiot. while it has no place to call people White Supremacists means you are a BLM racist moron
Kiss my ass, scumbag.
Pogo is a sad little man with no life.
blow me you little racist BLM dipshit
Calm down, honey. Sorry you lost your job. Daddy will kiss it and make it all better., I don’t mind your sweet petite hands XOXOXO
Bless your heart
You yankee cocksucker, go back north !!
Why? I’m about to be President!
You are the racist Sir, plain and simple. So, you are saying white people can have no heritage, no ancestry? Why is it other colors of people can be proud of their race, but God forbid a white person is proud of their race, suddenly they are racist. Hypocritical to say the least. And for your education on history, the Confederacy was and is fought for by ALL colors, White, Black, Red, Yellow, both natural born and immigrant, free men and slave. And don’t for a second think that blacks were the only slaves, Irish, Chinese, whites, blacks, were all slaves! Also be aware the south NEVER imported ANY slaves! The north imported and pushed the slave trade on the South! Explain the Corwin amendment offered by the War Criminal Lincoln if you think I’m wrong. Deo Vindice and God bless.
Also be reminded Confederate soldiers ARE American soldiers and deemed by Congress as U.S. veterans, protecting monuments, burial sites, etc, which also includes the Southern Cross, which is protected by not only the First amendment of our Constitution AND Congressional ACTS and LAWS!
Nah, just a bunch of sissy losers. So fucking whiny too. Always crying and moaning, but getting nothing done. Poor babies.
sounds more like you are the fucking loser trying to cry your way into getting shit others earned. lol how are you going to keep getting your food stamps when you have to work for them now?
They are not “US veterans”, read the law. Simply are referred to as ‘veterans’. Why would you misrepresent this? What’s your goal? The first slaves came here through Virginia. That’s ‘the south’, no? The reason secesh didn’t sign on to the Corwin Amendment is because it did not allow for slavery’s expansion. That’s why the slavers weren’t behind it. They could have kept slavery as it was but that wasn’t enough. Thanks for the cornucopia of lost cause nonsense.
Yes, heritage of calling black people inferior and intended by the creator to be our slaves. Great heritage there!
more like a face on the Port-ah-john and shit for brains!!!
“Tear down” black history month. See how much the Left likes that.
The Confederate flag is one of 57 flags hanging in the Citadel’s chapel. There needs to be a lot of research done to study all those flags. Some would say they shouldn’t even have a chapel.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/law-keeping-confederate-flag-s-c-statehouse-keeps-citadel-chapel-elsewhere/
Some would be right.
Our Government was founded on laws and Zero Religion
Southerners are always so confused. Beginning of course, in South Carolina.
Time you finally read the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights, LoL, yeah, Zero religion (sarcastic implication). BTW, the Southern Cross IS a Christian Flag. Southeron are far from confused, unlike Northern immoral, Godless, Anti-Constitutional Lincolnites.
Like Trump? You poor confused little bigot. Just like me! Are you gay too?
Spoken like a true southern Klansman. We southerners justified slavery of Africans as Biblical slavery.
How disgraceful. Kind of like when pogo and I make sweet gay love on our Battle Flag. Confederate Fags for life!
why does everything with you have gay queer not gay haha in it. jus sayin
*pops a beer and… some popcorn.*
* Settles in for ensueing comments*
Senators Bright, Verdin and Peeler had the guts to honor patriots and Southern heritage by voting to KEEP the flag
And there are 20 House members with steadfast loyalty whom Tea WILL support and about whom we can brag
Those patriot House members are Bedingfield, Burns, Chumley, Corley, Delleney, Hardee, Hill, Johnson and Kennedy
Then Loftis—Moss (both D.C. and V.S.), Nanney, Putnam, Simrill, Spires, Stringer, Taylor, Thaylor—and let’s see
White makes twenty and that is plenty of reason to get out and vote this year and beyond that let us just say
Legislators’ names YOU DON’T SEE HERE—let us make it crystal clear—need to be UNELECTED on election day !!!
Unelected? Damn, you goobers are morons.
tonto (NO relation to Tonto) thought calling patriots morons would get him somewhere
But when President Trump busted tonto for SNAP fraud…tonto was NO longer there !!!
An ignorant racist, but certainly not a patriot…that would be Lame Ranger. Since you are historically and chronically on the side of losers, I’m not too concerned with your endorsement of Trump. Besides, Trump publically denounced you racists idiots like David Puke and the KKK queers.
tonto (NO relation to Tonto) was sorely depressed by the certainty of President Trump
And when HONEST Trump DAs busted Section 8 fraud…tonto was looking for his rump !!!
You mean the same Trump who allows rich Chinese to fraudulently invest in his buildings to obtain visas and citizenship through the EB-5 program? The sam Trump who passed over hundreds of applications of US citizens to bring in cheap foreign labor? The same Trump that willingly used undocumented workers on his building projects? The same Trump that agreed that the racist battle flag needed to come down? Strange, I wouldn’t take you for the type to suck up to an Orange Yankee Liberal with tiny hands, but nobody ever accused a confederate of being very bright. That remains a fact.
tonto (NO relation to Tonto) was always a loner with only OTHER freeloading friends
He kept about Trump but was dumb as a stump and it was too late to make amends !!!
Lone Ranger supports a liberal Yankee who is against the battle flag. Just because he said racist things to sucker a bunch of uneducated crackers into voting for him. In reality he’s good buddies with the Clintons and Al Sharpton. Just think, Lone Ranger wants Al Sharpton to have influence over the White House. Dumb people can ge very entertaining!
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/423337/trumps-pal-al-sharpton
tonto (NO relation to Tonto) lamented Trump was continually winning and sadly kept lamely explaining
I think ignorance is gum so I keep chewing me some saying…dumb people can “ge (???)” entertaining !!!
Apparently you know nothing of the Confederacy or even what the term Confederacy is defined as nor have you read the Confederate Constitution, otherwise you would have realized the ignorance of your comment.
You’re right. I don’t give a flying shit about racist losers from the late 1800’s. Or their pussy ass descendants.
great , go buckeyes. no really, go. shoo
is that you Frog Horn Legg Horn?
Just curious but why do you feel like a Virginia battle flag that wasn’t put on top of the State House dome until the 60’s represents South Carolina’s fight in the Confederacy? I’m all for honoring our state’s military history, especially during the Revolutionary War where our contributions are often over looked, and during the Civil War since 20% of fighting age males were killed and USC had to close because the nearly whole student body enlisted, but a flag that was put up in defiance of the Civil Rights Act doesn’t seem like the one to do it. Maybe one of the many Confederate national flags or maybe a battle flag from a South Carolina regiment, which Rep. Pitts introduced an amendment during the debate to do that, but not a flag from another state, that whether you want to admit it our not was hijacked by the KKK during the 1920s. (look at any of their marches on Washington during that period and you will see that). I understand that we should not bow down to the cowardice of Dylan Roof and that the nostalgia around that flag has only grown since the 60’s and 70’s and grown to be a symbol of “southern heritage” (just think Lynyrd Skynyrd and .38 special) but don’t you think if it is on official state house grounds on a monument it should be historically accurate to our state? Just curious as to your opinion on the subject not looking to start a fact less debate
Senators Bright, Verdin and Peeler had the guts to honor patriots and Southern heritage by voting to KEEP the flag
And there are 20 House members with steadfast loyalty whom Tea WILL support and about whom we can brag
Those patriot House members are Bedingfield, Burns, Chumley, Corley, Delleney, Hardee, Hill, Johnson and Kennedy
Then Loftis—Moss (both D.C. and V.S.), Nanney, Putnam, Simrill, Spires, Stringer, Taylor, Thaylor—and let’s see
White makes twenty and that is plenty of reason to get out and vote this year and beyond that let us just say
Legislators’ names YOU DON’T SEE HERE—let us make it crystal clear—need to be UNELECTED on election day !!!
You didn’t answer my question but okay
Rev. E. Slave Jr.???
Hey is it just me, or did we never get a Will story on Friday’s job report?
I am a while,64 year old male, born and raised on the banks of the Reedy, 45 year construction UNION electrician(IBEW), and have NEVER owned a Confederate Battle Flag…………………UNTIL………………….NIMRATA pulled her political stunt with the flag at the State House..
OWN 2 4ft X 6ft, from that flag supplier in Alabama.
DANG, them thangs wuz expensive.
Taking the flag down is much more honorable than whatever it is that Folks’ protege/Trump Campaigner/Del First Female is doing with her “friend” in this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEPMGZe6KWs
Scare at Oconee Nuclear Station. Big Fire..
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/08/us/nuclear-power-plant-in-south-carolina-partially-shut-after-fire.html?_r=0
http://southernfriedcommonsense.blogspot.com/2015/03/why-hatred-of-confederate-flag-is-pro.html
If you spit on the confederate flag – is it worse than spitting on America itself?
ha ultimate fail
No follow-up of the “developing” story? Here is a bit more detail: http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20160209/PC1603/160209346/1005&source=RSS