Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh told his listeners on Tuesday that the effort to get rid of the flag is aimed at “destroying the South as a political force”, and he predicted: “The next flag that will come under assault, and it will not be long, is the American flag”.
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A look at the five statutes shows each has provisions to bar efforts to “mutilate, deface, defile, or abuse contemptuously” the flag, emblem, standard, color or ensign of the Confederate States of America.
KALAANI REYNOLDS: Now all of a sudden, everybody’s screaming tear the flag down.
The picture has sparked nationwide outrage, calling for South Carolina to take down the controversial flag that flies over a Confederate monument at the state capitol.
That said, until someone is arrested in one of the five states for Confederate flag burning, the state laws would not seemingly come into play.
The Mississippi state flag – an amalgamation of the First National Confederate Flag and the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia – remained for sale Thursday.
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While Hexwar plans to resubmit its app using a different version of the Confederate flag (and hope Apple doesn’t notice, or care), other developers are throwing up the white flag. He said the big flag companies’ decision was a surprise but probably the right one.
A history, and a symbol many are not ready to let go of.
Most problematic in Rep. Read’s proposal is that the “Magnolia Flag” incorporates a solid blue square with a single white star.
Displaying this flag, assuming the person who set it ablaze did so with the message that the flag won’t be tolerated, hurt themselves and others. “The cross and the Confederate flag can’t co-exist without one setting the other on fire”.
“The Nathan Bedford Forrest statue should have been removed from our state capitol a long time ago”, Mary Mancini, Tennessee Democratic Party Chair said.
Shortly after the governor’s decision, Alabama Speaker of the House Mike Hubbard (R-Auburn) ordered the flag be removed from the Old House Chamber inside the Capitol. Defenders of the flag argue that it’s a symbol of southern pride and they’re entitled to do so in a free country. And in Augusta, talks over the fate of a confederate monument.
Hillary Clinton added her voice to the debate yesterday when she said it was a “symbol of our racist past”.
“We feel like starting from the top is the way to go, and Jefferson Davis was president of the confederacy”, said Joe Deshotel, part of the Travis County Democrats and prominent organizer of the petition. Lindsey Graham was initally defending it, before changing his mind.
But major retailers are getting on board with banning sales of the Confederate flag, like Walmart, Amazon, Ebay, and Sears. After senators voted on Tuesday to hold a debate later this summer on whether to remove the flag, they gathered by Pinckney’s desk, still draped in black, and signed up for 30-minute shifts beside his body so he wouldn’t be alone.
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Target pulled its one obvious Confederate costume from its website after CNBC questioned the retailer about it. A company spokeswoman later said, “Our intention is never to offend”.
