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Breaking: US Congress Explodes Amid Confederate Flag Battle as S. Carolina Gov. Signs Bill

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In the United States Congress this afternoon, the Confederate flag battle unexpectedly erupted during a discussion as South Carolina signed bill to bring it down after a powerful historic speech. Late last night, House Republicans rallied to keep the flag flying in national parks. Some say this is beyond outrageous, after yesterday South Carolina’s legislature voted to take down the Confederate Flag.

During a US congressional discussion, emotions erupted amid an unexpected debate on the display of the southern “Battle Flag” in federal cemeteries for veterans. Shouting, and chanting were wild among congressional leaders.

 

The Washington Post reports:

“House Democrats accused Republicans of catering to the large bloc of southern conservatives in initially promoting an amendment that some viewed as pro-Confederate. Republicans accused Democrats of trying to exploit the tragedy of the mass killing inside a Charleston church last month and the subsequent decision by South Carolina leaders to remove the controversial flag from their state capitol”

Hours after South Carolina legislature voted to take down the flag, Republicans in Congress, in the dead of night, tried to sneak through an effort to let the Confederate Flag fly at national parks

Today, Speaker Boehner was forced to pull a bill off the floor due to his Southern Republicans demanding that the Confederate Flag continue to be displayed.

Civil rights defenders say the Confederate Flag is a historic symbol of slavery and racial hatred. It has become the symbol used by the KKK and other white supreme groups. That’s why Walmart, eBay, Amazon and Sears have all banned its sales.

“We simply can’t believe that some House Republicans are still trying to defend it,” says the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). DCCC is trying to obtain 100,000 grassroots Democrats to denounce the Republicans on a petition website.

Today, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley signed the bill to put the Confederate Flag to rest, after a moving and meaningful historic speech.

Tomorrow at 10:00 am, the Confederate Flag will come down in a respectful way, according to the governor.

Pathological patriotism is a severe condition reflected in American flag waving. In the US, the condition has been seen to be equally severe if not more so regarding the Confederate flag. Sinclair Lewis’ 1935 quote is apropos here: “Fascism will come wrapped in a flag and carrying a Bible.”

 



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    • Deborah Dupre

      Oh, if only citizens were as passionate about US military atrocities.

    • Pink Slime

      Some say the Confederate flag actually represents being AGAINST FEDERAL TYRANNY. A battle cry flag for that! Not about Negroes.

      So, Negroes actually get it wrong time and time again and why they are SO useful to Democraps!

      • Eaglefeather

        Hey don’t forget to include the “US Flag” on that list. If these trendy Lemmings actually wanted to address slavery, mass murder or injustice how about millions of Americans working for free in prisons for some non-violent fictitious criminal charge. Debt slavery working for food stamps & sleeping under a bridge. cops violently batter or kill more people in a month than any plantation owner ever did in over 100 years. We wont even talk about murdering millions of people in illegal wars of aggression, just like when the North attacked the South some things never change. Flying that rebel flag was & is a symbol of resistance to Tyranny and for those uneducated lemmings who don’t like it & for all the wrong reasons, its our 1st Amendment right and that’s all you need to know. If Gay Militants can fly a rainbow flag & paint the White house with it, we can place that rebel flag on our war memorials to honor the men who died for it. It is an American flag held by the American people and that’s a fact.

    • Theron

      Can we rip down the Washington Monument? It represents the penis of Osiris and it offends me.
      How about the statue of Albert Pike? Illuminati Globalist scum deserve no edifice on our National Mall. :idea:

    • hansom

      What’s the big deal with flags ? Are people so bereft of imagination and self expression, that they feel the need carry some symbolic artifact to show what kind of jerk/decent person they are ?

    • Everette

      The flag actually stands for Israel united under their (X) Messiah . To prove my point look at the union jack . It also has an X and a cross . Signs of their Messiah being taken from the Hebrew . Now for more proof . America is Ephraim the youngest of Josephs sons with his number 13 . Our seal contains 13s our flag contains13 . The blessing given to Ephraim in Genesis 48-49 by Jacob gives Ephraim the greatest blessing of the 13 tribes of Israel . Count them and see in Genesis 48 and 49 that there is 13 instead of 12 . Now their we’re only 11 colonies at the time , so why 13 stars on the rebel flag . Because Judea living in the south had all tribes united under the X or Messiah and their kingship . But Ephraim in the north would not except this and want them united under their flag and kingship . In Israel they fought all the time . This is why God removed Ephraim and his brothers 2700 years ago because they would not adhere to Judeas kingship given to them by God . Ephraim was blessed with the greatest blessing but they also started worshipping other gods . Just like they are doing today . Oh by the way Manasseh owns the other flag ( union jack ) . This is Josephs oldest son . Jacob through God told him he would be great but not as great as his younger brother Ephraim . This is why he calls his land Great Britain . The other brothers live among them and also in Europe and America . Israel and Judea are the white type A blood type ( Caucasian ) living in the world today . This can be traced back to Adam that came in 5900 years ago in chapter 2 of Genesis . The man created in chapter 1 of Genesis is O blood type and white also . Blacks came in with Hams son that Noah cursed because Ham had either sodomized him or castrated him . Because it says when he awaken he knew what had been done to him . And Hams son left and went into Ethopia and Afrrica . But the type O blood type were here first . And Adams son Cain and Seth married one of them . Check out how old Adam (325) was when they married . Then see that much later at 800 years old he has more children until then only Cain , Able and Seth . . Then God tells the descendants of Adam not to marry the tribes of the earth but keep your blood line pure , but they dint listen . Science has type O blood type on earth 150,000 years . So there was tribes running around . The X is Adams son of man symbol or the Hebrews Messiah . Just like the movie Narnia , the lion , the witch and the wardrobe . They were called the sons and daughters of Adam . Adam was white type A blood type that science says came in about 5900 years ago . About the same time Adam was born and the bible begins . So this Rebel flag was given the name rebel by Ephraim ( north ) as a resistance to Judeas kingship of America . Because like in the home land Ephraim did not want to submit to Judea . 13 stars represent the 13 tribes described in Genesis 48-49 . Today our Muslim chief or Ishmael the muslim , Abrahams other son that God rejected from kingship now wants Israel destroyed . Then the beast king can come from them . And Esau the Vatican also the false prophet wants to reign as wold religion . Together these defy Gods rulership of this world . This is why The NWO , Vatican , Esau wants the new world order . The Vatican and the Muslims are holding hands . Watch the news Obama and the Pope are buddies . Is this the beast and the prophet of 666 ? It is said the pope wares a neckless that has inscribed vascar son of god 666 . These are the ones pushing for the flag removal , because they know what it truly stands for . Plus they hope to start a racial war so Marshall law can begin . And he just signed it into law that once started it is forever . Then all guns will be removed so that they can round up those they deem undesirable and elemanate them . Now you know why the push to remove the rebl flag . It offends the Muslims and the Vatican , because both were rejected by God as holding kingship . So they are going to start their
      own rule of kingship . This is called the war of the sons of light ( Israel ) against the sons of darkness ( Ishmael and Esau ) Muslims and Vatican , UN and NWO .

    • Everette

      Sweetheart they are . Some have bought tickets to go fight Isis on their own . But your Muslim chief is dropping the Army numbers yet again . We are now in world war 1 numbers , what numbers will we be innext ? And Russia is threatening to kick our asses almost daily now . He has dismantled many of our warships . Drop off productions of our planes . Set up FEMA camps for citizens . Sign executive orders to bring in 15,000 Russian troops in May 2012 to surround himself to protect him from the American people . He has open up our boarders for the enemy to come in .. Allow Russian bombers to land in South Carolina . And today Russian troops number in 100,000 and are staying on our army bases . Not to mention he has just sent 4500 of our troops back over seas . Sounds kind of like he is giving us over to Russua doesn’t it . Not to mention he told Putin after his election he would deal with the Americas. Nukes . And he did . Claiming some of them MIGHT have cheated on their testes . Now his groupies are setting at the nuke control centers probably readjusting the sights of the intended targets maybe for your home town . I m not a racist , one of my friends is black . But if God wanted everyone one color then He would have made us all the same color . Yes we should get along . But stay pure to your race or we will all look like red bones one day . A race of people that are beautiful but no one really excepts them as their race . To each race they are half breeds . Just like your chief who really had a white dad and a black mom . He has A ( White ) B ( Asian ) and negative blood type . His dad could not have been black with O blood type and made him . He gets his color from his mom . This was all staged . Just like michell is Michael Robinson the football player . And his children are adopted . He is gay himself . He was married to man previously from Pakistan . This has all been a front . And almost everyone in America has bought into his bag of tricks . Wait till he pulls the Russian out of his hat and he has the EMP that shuts off every Americans lights and power . Then no one will be able to tell you the Russians are coming . Unless you got a powerful horse that can ride like the wind . Thanksgiving 2013 he showed China our power grid and how to shut it down . Not to mention he has borrowed so much from them that it will never be repaid . So to act as payment our choice foods , metal , lumber , coal and so forth has been shipp to them . And we buy back their second and thirds for our people . He has allow Monsanto and codex to poison our foods with aluminum and titanium . And sweeteners like aspartame and asuflame one akin to arsenic and the other a nerve agent . This man is evil and has intentions on insighting a racial war for us to destroy each other . Then what is left the Russian will come and get . I wish people would do their home work before spouting off . I love this country , but this man has done much to divide it .

    • DIgnified

      Oh no!!!! 100000 democrat slacktivist thought-police denouncing a symbol – an inanimate object – they themselves created and people they wouldn’t vote for anyway? Im sure the republicans care.

    • Deborah Dupre

      Eaglefeather –

      I get your anger, but must ask you: Why do American KKK members and Nazis often – not “a few times” as you say, wave the Confederate flag?

      I, too, grew up in the deep south. In fact, I graduated from Robert E Lee High School, Baton Rouge. I know through personal experiences the racism there and its association with the Confederate flag. Racist hatred and that flag are now too hard to separate. As part of the human family, as tough as it is, we’re in our greatness when we learn from history and correct wrongs in the present as best we can. Your bitterness and anger are troublesome. Your threat of violence is even more so. It is much appreciated that you express it here so people can read violence associated with the Confederate flag.

    • Eaglefeather

      A very simple answer if you actually did any real research on the matter instead of being a chirping chickadee. It is a “Fact” that the KKK & most so called “Nazi” or “Hate” groups are funded by the FBI. Ever hear of Operation Mockingbird or Cointel pro? Who the hell do you think is staging all of these resent false flags & is manufacturing these race baiting issues that you participate in hook line & sinker. You show me a KKK stirring up problems or a pole monkey ripping down a flag that has flown there for a hundred years and I will show you an Agent provoker on a government payroll or an FBI Patsy.

    • DK

      Someone is bearing someone else’s cross again, banning white racism only means non whites can be racist. :roll:

    • Everette

      I’m not angry . I guess you are speaking of me . The tensions of losing the war brought about hate . But God allowed this to happen because He saw that as He wanted in Israel the states would be united . But like in everything , you have a good and a bad . The racial groups picked up on the rebel part and used it for their purposes . Satanist also use the cross as their symbol but thy turn it upside down . Bad apples in the bunch spoil the whole bag . And this is what has happened here . The majority is being punished for the actions of the few . This happens so the factions that are trying to rule can tighten the noose around the necks of everyone tighter and tighter . Kind of like insurance companies . One law leads to another and another . Soon you have no freedom of anything . Like I stated this flag is Israel’s flag with 13 tribes represented by 13 stars and an X as their Messiah .

    • Deborah Dupre

      hmmm. I get the agents’ involvement. I know too many hard core racists who use the flag out of hate, too. It’s offensive to too many people, so why continue waving it? Racism equates with inequality, in direct opposition to human rights, so why foster it with a symbol?

      I’ve often pondered racism being promoted for the purpose of dividing the citizenry – and have written about this. Therefore, please don’t lump me in flocks of chirping chickadees, although I’m sure they have unique merit, too. :-)

    • Deborah Dupre

      Here’s an interesting Raw Story – Ed Sebesta interview below. Raw Story says about Sebesta that he:

      “is a private citizen with no academic position who has dedicated much of his life to researching and challenging the neo-Confederates. Sebesta provided me with the research that allowed me to expose the relationship former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and ex-Virginia Sen. George Allen struck up with the Council of Conservative Citizens, a neo-Confederate group Dylann Roof credited with his radicalization. Sebesta was the source who supplied journalists with the Ron Paul reports that exposed the racist, homophobic screeds that filled Rep. Ron Paul’s newsletters during the 1990s.”

      Sebesta tells RS about who is behind the Confederate flag movement and ideology, He does not mention the FBI or other agents:

      “The main group behind this movement is the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV). Their journal is promoting issues and ideas you wouldn’t believe. One of the books they’re promoting in the latest issue of their newsletter is a book by a writer named Frank Conner who argues that Jewish northern intellectuals are the South’s deadliest enemy — that civil rights is really a Jewish conspiracy and that blacks have lower IQs. They’re also selling Southern By The Grace of God, a book that portrays the KKK as great heroes. The intellectual group behind neo-Confederate ideology is the Abbeville Institute which comprises about 300 professors and some students. They publish online and promote an explicit neo-Confederate worldview. The United Daughters of Confederacy is more low key. The League of the South is mostly dead because the SCV have filled their role. They sell pro-slavery books and they pretty much resent anyone from unitarians to Latinos to gays to Muslims, you name it.”

    • Anonymous

      Deborah, you usually do a fantastic job with your articles and research. I appreciate your contributions and restraint from the standard “Jaw Dropping” lines…

      Please, if you feel the way you do regarding the confederate flag, don’t fly it, wear it, or paint it on your car… BUT keep your hands off mine. I am no racist, and the flag doesn’t represent ‘racism’ to everyone.

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