Showing posts with label Charleston. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Charleston. Show all posts

Thursday, July 9, 2015

A Pressing National Issue? Really?

A Pressing National Issue? Really?

July 09, 2015 Boehner , Cemeteries 0 Comments

Confederate Flag Battle Erupts In Congress amid Unexpected debate Over Displays In Cemeteries

By Paul Kane and Abby Phillip, July 9, 2015, Washington Post

Three weeks after a racially motivated massacre in a black church in Charleston, S.C., the Confederate battle flag will no longer fly on the grounds of the South Carolina State House, following a bitter debate over its role as a symbol of racism and hate.

The shooting that left nine dead at Emanuel AME Church and subsequent images of the alleged gunman holding the battle flag set off a national debate about the flag’s meaning and history. On Thursday, Gov. Nikki Haley (R) signed legislation to remove the flag, which has flown over the capitol’s dome or on its grounds since 1961.

The furor over the flag rippled through the halls of Congress on Thursday when House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) called for a review of Confederate symbols and memorabilia, which is likely to include those on display in the Capitol.

Boehner was forced to halt consideration of a government funding measure after it became engulfed by the Confederate flag controversy and whether it was appropriate to display the flags at national cemeteries where Confederate soldiers are buried.
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"There Were Words Exchanged Between Both Sides"

"There Were Words Exchanged Between Both Sides"

July 09, 2015 Charleston , Confederate Flag 0 Comments

Emotions Run High During Confederate Flag Rally At State House

By Harve Jacobs, July 9, 2015, 19 Action News

COLUMBIA, SC (WCSC/WIS) -
Emotions ran high during a Confederate Flag rally at the state house Monday afternoon.

In comparison to a similar rally last week, this time more folks turned out who support the flag staying on the State House grounds. There were words exchanged between both sides.

"We won't let you repeat the history of that flag, that hateful flag that lynched people," state National Action Network president Elder James Johnson yelled to a flag supporter.

Between verbal jousting, flag opponents made repeated calls for the flag to come down.

One of those calling for it to be moved was the granddaughter of late US Senator Strom Thurmond.

In the early part of his political career, Thurmond was an avowed segregationist.

"It promotes all negative things, hatred and all the things that have happened that kept our ancestors in bondage," Wanda Bailey said.

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Wednesday, July 1, 2015

If Republicans resist, they'll be called "racist"

July 01, 2015 Charleston , Racist Terrorism 0 Comments
Democrats Push For Senate Probe Of Racist Terrorism In U.S. 

By S.A. Miller, June 30, 2015, The Washington Times 

Senate Democrats on Tuesday demanded a probe of racist domestic terrorism in response the the deadly shooting this month at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina.

“What we saw in South Carolina is about hate, and it is about evil. We must address the reality of domestic terrorism spurred by racial hatred head on,” six Democratic senators said in a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley, Iowa Republican.

The senators, led by Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Judiciary Committee ranking member Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, said the church shooting appeared to also fit the U.S. Code’s definition of a terrorist attack, which describes terrorism as a criminal act dangerous to human life that is intended to “intimidate or coerce a civilian population” or “to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction [or] assassination.”

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Saturday, June 27, 2015

Was it the flag--or the shorts?

June 27, 2015 Charleston , Confederate Flag 0 Comments
Officer Fired After Posting Photo Of Himself In Confederate Flag Boxer Shorts On Facebook 

By CBS Atlanta, Jun. 25, 2015


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Friday, June 26, 2015

Larry Elder: Lone Racist Killer Has Been Politicized By Left

June 26, 2015 Articles by Larry Elder , Charleston 0 Comments
By Larry Elder, Jun. 24, 2015, IBD

Right after a white killer gunned down nine black worshippers at a historic church in Charleston, S.C., out came the politics.

On the Capitol grounds in Columbia flies the battlefield flag of Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, often erroneously called the "Confederate flag." Right after the shooting, calls came for the flag's removal.

Gov. Nikki Haley, until now, had defended the compromise that moved the flag in 2000 from the Capitol dome, where it had flown since 1962, to a nearby Confederate soldier memorial on the statehouse grounds.

The killer didn't pull out a Confederate flag and use it to kill people. He used a .45. He also had flags of apartheid South Africa and separatist Rhodesia. Ban them, too?

President Obama took the opportunity to make the case for additional gun-control legislation. "We don't have all the facts," he said, "but we do know that once again, innocent people were killed in part because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting their hands on a gun."

OK, now that Obama mentions it, suppose one or more of the churchgoers had been armed? South Carolina is one of 40 states that allow citizens to carry a concealed weapon on a "shall issue" basis, meaning that as long as you pass basic qualification requirements — age, training, no criminal history, etc. — the state will not deny you a permit to carry a concealed weapon.

Permit holders, however, can't bring a firearm to a "house of worship." Whether Dylann Roof, who's reportedly confessed to being the Charleston killer, knew this, we don't know.

We do know that one of Roof's friends said he wanted to attack a local college. But, according to the friend, Roof switched targets because of the security around the school. If the school's security deterred Roof, might allowing concealed carry in a "house of worship" have a similar effect?

How about we spend a little time on whether someone could have and should have said something to someone? Roof apparently told people of his intentions to start a "race war" — and at at least some friends knew he possessed a .45.

Obama said the tragedy reminds us "we've got a lot of work to do." He spoke of the 1963 church bombing in Birmingham, Ala., where four black girls were killed and nearly two dozen people wounded. But the differences between Birmingham in 1963 and Charleston in 2015 are staggering.

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