AL county refuses to lower flag

Posted by | June 17, 2016 18:00 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Politics


“We can’t lower it for every event like this,” said one commissioner.

Baldwin County Commissioner Tucker Dorsey told CNN affiliate WPMI that even though his “heart certainly goes out to the victims and their families,” the massacre “doesn’t meet the test of the reason for the flag to be lowered” based on the U.S. Flag Code.Dorsey noted that the code prescribes lowering the flag only on Memorial Day and when government officials die.

He reiterated these points in a Facebook post this week, noting that the county didn’t lower its flags in the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif.

“I realize that the President and Governor may make the order, but I believe and interpret their order inconsistent with the adopted flag code,” he wrote.

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19 responses to AL county refuses to lower flag

  1. Larry Schmitt June 17th, 2016 at 19:00

    The flag code is not law.

    • granpa.usthai June 17th, 2016 at 21:00

      The Presidential Executive Order to have the US Flag flown at half mast is.

    • bpollen June 18th, 2016 at 02:34

      It’s as binding as not wearing white shoes after Labor Day.

  2. labman57 June 17th, 2016 at 19:23

    Why do I get the feeling that these self-righteous flag experts would have a different perspective on the matter … had the victims been a large group of Evangelical Christians?

    • Suzanne McFly June 17th, 2016 at 22:12

      Depends, what is their skin color?

  3. whatthe46 June 17th, 2016 at 19:29

    why would you lower it for an incident that happened in another country, even if you could you wouldn’t have. you don’t give a damn about our own citizens, surely you don’t give a damn about another country’s citizens. asswipe.

  4. granpa.usthai June 17th, 2016 at 20:58

    US Flags are lowered under national tragedies, and sometimes for international tragedies.
    It is a show of national respect. It is initiated by the POTUS.

    many a WHITE boy has at various times opted to not follow lawful protocol during the LEADERSHIP of POTUS Obama. This is merely another of those occasions. – and yet those who openly aid and abet open acts of terror directed at US Citizens who celebrate their EQUAL RIGHTS as guaranteed by The Constitution of The United States of America demand respectful protocol for themselves.

    the time has past come for those of US who support The United States of America to stand up to these bigoted buffoons and call them out for who they are.

    FU2 -very much also Tucker Dorsey (WHITE MALE REPUBLIKON).

  5. StoneyCurtisll June 17th, 2016 at 21:14

    Key word…
    Alabama

  6. amersham46 June 17th, 2016 at 22:09

    An’t one of their own

  7. Tommie June 17th, 2016 at 22:49

    Wow, way to make ALL Americans feel welcomed in the good ‘ole USA!

    • whatthe46 June 17th, 2016 at 23:08

      now, can you imagine how immigrants are treated in that damn state? rather, don’t, it’ll make you fk’n sick.

  8. spacegod June 18th, 2016 at 00:09

    Much disrespectful ado about nothing.
    Remember: GOD HATES FLAGS

  9. Mike June 18th, 2016 at 12:17

    From the US Flag Code page…
    The U.S. flag is otherwise flown at half-staff (or half-mast on ships) only when directed by the President of the United States, or (only for buildings within his or her jurisdiction,) the Mayor of Washington, D.C.

    Sounds like he’s full of crap
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Flag_Code

  10. illinoisboy1977 June 18th, 2016 at 13:28

    It’s going to be for his constituents to decide whether he should be removed from office. There’s nothing anyone who doesn’t live there can do about it.

  11. (((thinkingwomanmillstone))) June 19th, 2016 at 08:39

    Fifty sons and daughters of America don’t deserve the symbolic respect of lowering the flag in honor of their loss? I wonder if they lowered it for 9/11 or the Charleston shooting? These ideologues contribute to the hatred that is acted upon by the violent deranged people in this country. They encourage them to feel justified in their actions.

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