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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsApparently South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley can not lower the confederate flag over the capital.
Amazing, absolutely amazing. It is protected, she has no jurisdiction over it, only the General Assembly does.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/charleston-church-shooting/south-carolinas-confederate-flag-not-lowered-half-mast-after-church-n378316
A state press secretary confirmed that detail to the online magazine Slate.
"In South Carolina, the governor does not have legal authority to alter the flag," the press secretary said. "Only the General Assembly can do that."
Lilith Rising
(184 posts)should get it's shit together and take it down.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)backscatter712
(26,355 posts)...you'd think they'd be right on it.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)I don't think any one person in state government should have the authority to say what stays and what goes.
Can you imagine what some teabagger stooge like Rayond LePage of Maine would do with unbridled authority?
Put the pressure on the S.C. General Assembly where it belongs, if anywhere.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)She walks right out there and takes it down. I am sure she could get back up from a few thousand members of various AME churches in SC. What are they going to do? Shoot the governor? Arrest her? And if they do any of those things, how will that help their cause?
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,843 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)It belongs in a museum as an artifact, but not flying over a capitol like a badge of honor.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,843 posts)I'm just saying any politician who thinks otherwise, especially in the light of this most recent tragedy, should be forced to go on record with it.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)I wish I were kidding, but it's not on a lanyard; it's bolted to the flagpole.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)something like this:
Recursion
(56,582 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)before"? I am paraphrasing, but it's something like that. F**k the General Assembly. Take it down, damn it.
MineralMan
(146,320 posts)She is the commander of her state's National Guard. She can make one phone call and have them remove the flag, pole and all, forthwith. All she has to do is declare an emergency and deem the flag a threat to public safety.
She can do it, but she will not. It would cost her the next election. She likes her phony-baloney job too much.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)consequences.
LordGlenconner
(1,348 posts)What a disgusting human being that witch is.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)These people have ZERO ethical/moral depth.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)cement what they are really about, TPTB in S.C.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)and they worship that flag.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)Harrumph!!
JI7
(89,259 posts)and give her position on the issue.
tritsofme
(17,387 posts)Pressure should be put on the responsible party to act, not on the governor to ignore the law.
taught_me_patience
(5,477 posts)She's too much of a coward, though.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)That's a no-no.
h/t geek tragedy for "Dixie Swastika"
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)They can fly it over Fort Sumter if they like.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)it should not be above either our flag or any state flag.
Am I correct - is the flag on the dome of their capital also the confederate flag? If so they have always been flying it above the US flag. So much for the gop meme about flag and country.
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)it looks like it's already lower even flying at full mast, so that rule wouldn't apply
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/06/19/why-south-carolinas-confederate-flag-isnt-at-half-mast-after-church-shooting/
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)brooklynite
(94,657 posts)@nikkihaley says lowering Confederate Battle Flag in honor of #Charleston massacre requires action by Gen Assembly; has she asked for any?
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)harrose
(380 posts)... sometimes you just have to do the right thing, whether it's legal or not.
Stupid Repuke racists.
moondust
(20,001 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Call in the National Guard to take it down....it is hate symbol.
olddots
(10,237 posts)their swastika and their desperate attempt to live in a past that has to be put in perspective as being against all they say they say they stand for.
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)Okay, I'm being facetious, but consider: that's not the Confederate States of America's national flag, it's the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia. Might not raising an enemy battle flag be considered a warlike act? Again, I'm just joking here, but I think this distinction between flags just points up what a complete dick move flying that flag is in the first place (to say nothing of not taking it down or flying it at half mast after an atrocity like the one in Charleston).