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Rick Clark, the sheriff of Pickens County, S.C., vowed on Friday to defy President Obama's order that U.S. flags be lowered to half staff in honor of deceased South African leader Nelson Mandela.
Clark made his promise in a Facebook post to keep flying the flag at the Pickens County Sheriff's Office at full height.
"I usually don't post political items, but today is different. I received this notification today, 'As a mark of respect for the memory of Nelson Mandela, the President orders that the flag of the United States be flown at half-staff effective immediately until sunset, December 9, 2013,'" Clark wrote. "Nelson Mandela did great things for his country and was a brave man but he was not an AMERICAN!!! The flag should be lowered at our Embassy in S. Africa, but not here."
Clark said the flags at the Sheriff's Office were at half staff Friday to mourn a deceased deputy. Clark said the flag would remain at half mast Saturday to mark Pearl Harbor Day. After that, he said, he "ordered that the flag here at my office back up" (sic).
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/south-carolina-sheriff-vows-not-to-lower-flag-for-mandela
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)silvershadow
(10,336 posts)kimbutgar
(21,157 posts)It must be so tiring to be a hater.
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)Funny he was an Amerikkan and yet one or our former Presidents, and a former VP, attempted to use their power to keep Mandela in prison.
The least we could do is lower a stupid flag, consider how we tried to fuck him over
Spider Jerusalem
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(297,288 posts)dumbfuck.
Are_grits_groceries
(17,111 posts)is a Crip leader running around 5 Points in Columbia.