The House passed version of the bill differs from the bill which the Senate passed earlier by specifying that the flag be removed to a 30-foot flag pole behind the Confederate war memorial on the state house grounds.  The Senate version specified a 20-foot flag pole.

"It’s open season now on all things Confederate," said Dr. Neill H. Payne, Executive Director of the Southern Legal Resource Center, responding to the news of the vote.  "The South Carolina legislature has given the haters of my heritage a green light to go full tilt in their program of ethnic cleansing."

"This is no compromise legislation.  This is just one more step along the path to destruction of every memorial to my ancestors and every vestige of my heritage. The anti-flag bigots of the NAACP have already said that they will not drop their boycott. So, if the legislature will move the flag because of the NAACP’s economic terrorism, they will certainly get rid of it when it is moved to the soldiers monument if the boycott continues." Payne added.

Attorney Kirk Lyons, chief trial counsel of the SLRC said, "The NAACP is showing itself to be the pack of liars and hypocrites that we have known them to be.  They said they opposed the flag on the dome because it was wrong to fly it in a "position of sovereignty.  Now they say that they oppose the flag at the monument because it will be ‘too prominent’."

"The freedom to be yourself and to express pride in the land of your birth was given a mortal wound yesterday," Lyons continued.  "As long as that flag flew it signaled that the government of South Carolina supported freedom of expression and resistance to tyranny.  I suppose that this is the price they pay to join the New World Order."

In Confederate chat rooms and on list-servers, the internet bristled with condemnation of the vote.  Especially targeted for condemnation were the sell-out Republicans who had promised to support the flag and who had vowed to never take it down.  They will no doubt lose the Confederate vote come November.

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