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SC Sheriff Refuses To Lower Flag For Nelson Mandela
The Greenville News ^ | December 7, 2013 | Eric Connor

Posted on 12/07/2013 2:56:25 PM PST by DJ Taylor

The American flag that flies over the Pickens County Sheriff's Office will be raised high tonight despite an order by President Barack Obama that flags across the country be lowered to half-staff to honor the death of iconic South African leader Nelson Mandela.

Sheriff Rick Clark told The Greenville News that he has ordered the flag be raised at the end of today because he said the honor of lowering flags to half-staff should be reserved for Americans.

"The flag at half-staff is for Americans' ultimate sacrifice for our country," Clark said. "We should never stray away from that."

The flag has flown at half-staff and will continue to during daylight hours today in honor of a Low country law enforcement officer who was killed and in honor of Pearl Harbor Day, Clark said.

However, come tonight, the flag will be raised, he said.

On Thursday, Obama ordered that flags be flown at half-staff on public grounds until sunset Monday.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: bho44; leo; mandela; niet; oldglory; rickclark
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To: Dalberg-Acton

Thanks!

“In April 1986, Winnie Mandela publicly endorsed “neck lacing,” telling a Soweto mob, “With our necklaces we will liberate this country.” Mrs. Mandela was also implicated in January 1989 in the abduction of three young black men and a boy from a Methodist Church shelter. Mrs. Mandela’s bodyguards, known as the “Mandela United Football Club,” snatched them and took them to Mrs. Mandela’s home where they were beaten, whipped and subjected to other forms of torture. The object was to get them to say that the Methodist minister, who is white, had abused them sexually. Two of them did so but later recanted. A third escaped. The boy, 14-year-old Mokhetsi “Stempie” Seipei, did not give in and was beaten into unconsciousness. On January 7, 1989, his battered body was found in a field with his throat slit. Stempie was famous as an anti-apartheid activist, having been arrested for his activities when he was only 10.”


41 posted on 12/07/2013 3:35:14 PM PST by kcvl
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To: DJ Taylor
"The flag at half-staff is for Americans' ultimate sacrifice for our country," Clark said. "We should never stray away from that."

phuquin' A ... you GO, sherriff.

42 posted on 12/07/2013 3:35:21 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: DJ Taylor

My kinda sheriff. May the commie America-hating Nelson Mandela roast in hell for his crimes.


43 posted on 12/07/2013 3:35:58 PM PST by backwoods-engineer (Blog: www.BackwoodsEngineer.com)
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To: DJ Taylor; 2A Patriot; 2nd amendment mama; 4everontheRight; 77Jimmy; A Strict Constructionist; ...
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44 posted on 12/07/2013 3:38:25 PM PST by upchuck (I can't stand people that don't know the difference between 'than' and 'then.' Their so stupid...)
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To: DoodleDawg

Jeanette Jerome, the mother of Winston Churchill, was from Brooklyn.


45 posted on 12/07/2013 3:47:46 PM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: DJ Taylor

Wasn’t Mandela sent to prison for shooting up a bus full of kids?


46 posted on 12/07/2013 3:50:55 PM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: DJ Taylor

Flags are lowered for heros killed for their country. Politicians use it for their personal agenda.
Let’s go back to its original purpose.


47 posted on 12/07/2013 3:52:59 PM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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To: I want the USA back

Amen.


48 posted on 12/07/2013 3:54:35 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: reg45
Jeanette Jerome, the mother of Winston Churchill, was from Brooklyn.

But under the laws in place at the time that did not grant U.S. citizenship to her son. He was given honorary citizenship in 1963.

49 posted on 12/07/2013 3:56:05 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: RS_Rider

It should have been at half staff for Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.


50 posted on 12/07/2013 3:58:06 PM PST by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: Cicero

We flew our flag at home - at full staff - for Pearl Harbor Day! Father-in-law, God rest his soul, was a World War Two vet.


51 posted on 12/07/2013 4:08:08 PM PST by NEWwoman (God Bless America)
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To: DJ Taylor

“Yes, in a Communist block country, which ours now is...”

Oh, please, spare me your stupid surrender monkey hyperbole.


52 posted on 12/07/2013 4:11:14 PM PST by sergeantdave
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To: dfwgator

Well now Gator baby, we can ALWAYS count on you to be historically accurate.

And as far as I can remember, (and the shame of it is that I can because I was around back then) you hit the nail on the head.

OTH, I opposed ALL of those incidents, because I believed then as I believe now, that the American Flag, is for Americans only.

I’ll get the usual boo hoos about that stance, but what the heck.

I’m just a podunk who thinks our flag means things. (Not saying you don’t, I don’t know where you stand on the issue, and that’s your choice. Just expressing MY opinion, biased as it is.)

Again, thanks for the reminders.


53 posted on 12/07/2013 4:15:50 PM PST by ConradofMontferrat ( According to mudslimz, my handle is a HATE CRIME. And I HOPE they don't like it.)
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To: ConradofMontferrat

The only one I could agree with is Churchill.


54 posted on 12/07/2013 4:19:33 PM PST by dfwgator (Fire Muschamp. Go Michigan State!)
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To: sergeantdave

Hey, Serg,

Maybe you and I read two different posts, but I don’t see the “surrender monkey” you did in Taylor’s post.

Did I miss something?

I think he made a good point that the USSA has become what us old cold warriors tried to defeat.

??Just asking.


55 posted on 12/07/2013 4:21:16 PM PST by ConradofMontferrat ( According to mudslimz, my handle is a HATE CRIME. And I HOPE they don't like it.)
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To: DJ Taylor

We lower the flag altogether too much. When I drive through several towns, I am bound to find one where flags are lowered — and I have to ask for whom. Sometimes it is just for some local resident. Come on! That is not enough.
When I die, I hope that the flags will not be lowered anywhere.


56 posted on 12/07/2013 4:26:22 PM PST by docbnj
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To: DJ Taylor

God bless him! (the Pickens County Sheriff, NOT mandela!)


57 posted on 12/07/2013 4:27:00 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: dfwgator

Good Point.

And I agree. That man fired up a whole bunch of people.

Mostly in the Commonwealth countries, the U.S., Canada, Australia and on and on.

He did speak for all of us.

He was about the only one who deserved such an honor from us.

OTH, I somehow don’t consider him a foreigner. Kinda like Ben Franklin, a son of two countries.

But, as a PURIST......

Oh Hell, I’ll let it go now.

Have a good night.


58 posted on 12/07/2013 4:27:42 PM PST by ConradofMontferrat ( According to mudslimz, my handle is a HATE CRIME. And I HOPE they don't like it.)
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To: ConradofMontferrat; DJ Taylor

DJ Taylor equated America to a 1980’s soviet bloc country like Poland, which is total BS.

If you and DJ Taylor think that America is equivalent to Poland in the 1980s, then you have no idea what Russian communism was like under that prick Brezhnev.

Do us patriots a favor and choose your words more carefully.


59 posted on 12/07/2013 4:38:24 PM PST by sergeantdave
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To: sergeantdave

I think that the state of our mainstream media can be in some careful way compared to the state of the media during late Communism.


60 posted on 12/07/2013 4:40:12 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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