Sheriff in SC refuses to lower flag for Mandela (Hugo Chavez, Canada, compare)

[TheMoreYouKnow]

Originally Posted by EmeraldCityWanderer

I guess people are only human beings if they are American to him.

What does being human and flying a flag at half mast have to do with each other. Did this Sheriff claim that Mandela wasn't human?

[texdav]

I don't see lowering it either. All nation flags in S. Africa are the ones who should be lowered.

[northnut]

Originally Posted by marlinfshr

This isn't S. Africa. Let them lower their own damn flag over there. Let ours here in the US fly high.

[gtc08]

looks like he was overruled anyway, the flag is going to be lowered.

[D-Towner]

Originally Posted by Gurbie

Sheriff Rick Clark of Pickens Co South Carolina tweeted that he will refuse President Obama's direction that US flags be lowered to half-staff, in tribute to Nelson Mandela:

South Carolina Sheriff Refuses To Lower Flag For Mandela

Clark's stated reason? Mandela's not an Amurrikin, he-yuck he-yuck.


Stay classy, SC...

Nelson Mandela isn't an American. His efforts are noble but didn't effect the United States. When the flag is lowered, it represents a tribute to someone who contributed to American society.

[malamute]

Originally Posted by pnwmdk

I see no reason to lower it, either.

Me neither --- does the flag always get lowered when a former leader of some other country dies of old age?

[malamute]

Originally Posted by EmeraldCityWanderer

I guess people are only human beings if they are American to him.

That's just silly. They don't lower the flag when ever some American dies -- much less for every human being throughout the world.

[seattlenextyear]

He could've just not done it, not made an issue of it, and no one would've noticed (especially since it was half mast anyways). Obviously he was craving some attention.

[ntwrkguy1]

Lowering the American flag should be reserved for Americans.

Period.

[11222blue]

I see no reason to lower it either.