Posted on 10/10/2019 6:30:06 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Philadelphia raised the flag of China at city hall last week to honor the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China.
Mayor Jim Kenney announced last Tuesday the observation of “The People’s Republic of China Flag-raising Day,” according to Xinhua, China’s official state-run press agency.
The City of Philadelphia released photos of the event, showing a small crowd of attendees watching as the flag of China is raised.
The Epoch Times reported that local community groups had strongly opposed the raising of the Chinese flag, viewing it as an endorsement of the communist nation’s oppressive regime.
“Raising this flag, a symbol of the birth of the Chinese Communist Party on October 1, 1949 is only celebrating tyranny, repression, and death,” said one local resident in an email to Kenney, who like a large majority of the Philadelphia City Council is a Democrat.
The mayor’s office told The Epoch Times in an emailed statement that “the flag raisings are not a sign of support for any specific government, political party, or movement.”
“Rather, they are an opportunity … for people with shared heritage to celebrate their backgrounds and experiences,” the office said.
In an opinion article published in The Philadelphia Inquirer, columnist Christine M. Flowers criticized the city’s justification for raising China’s flag “as part of a program devoted to multiculturalism and diversity.”
“Raising the flag of a brutal totalitarian regime does not honor the immigrants whose parents and grandparents were brutalized by the government it represents,” Flowers wrote. “Raising that flag does not honor the humanity of those Chinese refugees, prisoners of conscience, and victims of persecution who I have met in my capacity as an asylum advocate. Raising that flag is an abomination.”
Flowers said she’d written the mayor’s office to protest the event.
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“Congratulations to President Xi and the Chinese people on the 70th Anniversary of the People’s Republic of China!”
The woke folks are letting us know their plans for us—a boot in our face—forever.
Mao and the Chinese Communists made Hitler look like an amateur. Are they going to raise a swastika?
Congratulations to the PRC for figuring out how to control your people and dispose of your enemies with ruthless efficiency. We in the democrat party could learn much from you and are endeavoring to progress in the spirit of your shining example. Hey PRC and you devilshly clever Chicoms, this Bud’s for you and all that you do.
This is the same mayor that condemned a Philadelphia firefighter for holding a Confederate flag in a social media post.
Yet the flag of Communist China is not only acceptable to him, but it is to be celebrated by raising it over City Hall!!
Despicable.
There’s a new Mystery show on Hallmark that features Danica McKeller and takes place in Philadelphia.
Big Mistake. There is NO PHILADELPHIA that is what it once was. Born there and experience the wonderful “better than New York” splendor that existed back in the day.
You Can’t Go Home Again.
Farewell Philadelphia.
In PHILADELPHIA, no less.......................Would somebody please remove the Liberty Bell and take it to a safe place?.............Independence Hall we can move later....................
We have been infiltrated by Communists for decades.. They are teachers, reporters, government officials.. Just wait what they have in store for us when they gain full power again.
My sis lives there and calls it “City of Brotherly Shove”.
The only flags that should be flown at Government buildings is the American Flag and/or the flag of the State the building is located. Foreign flags should only be flown below the American Flag when appropriate.
Maybe one day Philly will recover.
The left envies the power of totalitarian regimes. It’s what they aspire to; the ability to jail and kill people who disagree.
I vote for a Confederation of Free States. How bout Richmond as our capitol. lol
Seriously though....Let's pick a conservative town as our capitol. Let's say....New Braunfels, Texas or Anderson, Texas. That ought to do it.
No other flag but the Texas flag should be flown at the same level as the American flag.
And yet no one with any testicular fortitude walked over and cut it down.
The Chinese flag represents zero diversity of thought or speech.
A few years back, I read or heard in a video that the left’s and Soros’ preferred model of communism for the New World Order would be of the Chinese variety.
I’m thinking that may be so.
Hitler’s was an ethnic pogrom. Mao just did a little ‘internal bureaucratic reorganization’, ya know.
So the leaders can live in luxury
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