President Obama orders U.S. Flags to be flown at half-mast to honor Hugo Chavez, socialist dictator.
You read that right, I actually heard him on the radio order flags at half-mast for a month and also wanted to have a national day of remembrance set up for this hack. I heard this news bleep across the radio and I never saw another item about it in the mainstream news. I'm sure that the outcry was so substantial that he started backing off his demands....I did not see one flag at half-mast in my area and although I don't wish ill will on people.....I won't tell you that I didn't get a little giddy when I heard that Chavez was gone!
Here's a quick article about Citgo flying their flags at Half-staff in Houston and Lake Charles. I hope you are all paying attention to where you purchase your gasoline from! Citgo needs to go out of business in this country!
Out of respect for President Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan-owned oil refinery Citgo flew its flags at half staff outside its Houston and Lake Charles, La., offices Wednesday, sparking outcry from drivers passing by.
In Houston, the flags at the refinery were lowered to half staff as late as this afternoon, and caused a number of people to look twice as they drove by. James Post, an assistant project manager at an engineering and construction firm in Harris County, told Fox News.com the sight was "jarring" and "deeply disappointing."
U.S. protocol allows for flags to be lowered for foreign dignitaries and Post recognized Citgo's right to do so as a private company. However, he said upon seeing the American or Texas flag at half staff, he questioned the person being honored; and said his mind "immediately jumped to the last time we did this in the Houston-area and it was for Neil Armstrong, so, you wonder."
Meanwhile, Terry Backhaus, a financial adviser in Louisiana, told Fox News.com the flags at the Citgo refinery in Lake Charles had apparently been raised back by noon. "I think I used a profanity when I saw it this morning, I was disgusted," Bakhaus said. "I didn't believe it to be right, not for somebody who wasn't a true American ally."
To Read More:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/03/06/venezuelan-citgo-flies-half-mast-in-texas-louisiana-for-chavez/#ixzz2NdHiKgli
Chavez Dead. American Flags Fly at Half Mast. What? (And liberals mourn the loss of a dictator)
Written on Friday, March 8, 2013 by Ralph Barker
It is understood that Citco is a Venezuelan company, but Venezuela is not an American ally. Venezuela is far from being a friend to the United States. It is Chavez himself who was less than complimentary when he spoke of former President George Bush.
In a UN speech in 2006 Chavez said of Bush:
“The devil came here yesterday. And it smells of sulfur still today.”(Wonder if he still smells sulfur now that he has passed on to the great beyond???)
I guess Chavez never read Dale Carnegie’s classic, How To Win Friends and Influence People. He never did apologize for his remarks or hold out an olive branch. But, as a good socialist will do, he was glad to take American’s money for his gas.
On a weekly television program in 2005 Chavez clearly stated his vision for his country. It is a vision for which our current President would certainly echo a hearty “Amen!” He said:
“After many readings, debates, discussions, travels around the world, etcetera, I am convinced — and I believe this conviction will be for the rest of my life — that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism. The path is socialism.” (Sound vaguely familiar??)
The half-mast flags did not go unnoticed by many residents of Texas and Louisiana. There was a loud outcry, loud enough to get the flags raised to their proper positions.
Was Citco in violation of the law? Apparently not in that it is a private company.
Title 4 of the U.S. Code states that: the American flag may be flown at half-staff following the death of “other officials or foreign dignitaries” if indicated in presidential instructions. However, private individuals and organizations are not legally bound to follow provisions regarding flag etiquette.
Another disturbing thing to me is the response of Jimmy Carter, Sean Penn, Oliver Stone and others over the death of Chavez. What is the fascination among extreme liberals like those just mentioned over oppressive dictators? Is it because they relate to the hypocrisy? These rich celebrities drool over the likes of Chavez and Castro, and yet they never seem to want to move to Venezuela or Cuba. I wish they would.
Sean Penn said he was a close friend of Chavez and was devastated by his death. Penn also was a frequent visitor to Chavez’s socialist-island. It’s true. “Birds of a feather flock together.”
Penn was quoted by the Hollywood Reporter to have said: “Today the people of the United States lost a friend it never knew it had. And poor people around the world lost a champion.”
It’s worth noting that Chavez was worth one billion dollars when he died. Why are the radical and vocal socialists so often rich? They love socialism because it doesn’t affect them. Let’s see, in America we have the super rich socialists Michael Moore, Nancy Pelosi, Oliver Stone, and Sean Penn for starters.
A blogger, named lbryce, on the Free Republic aptly summed it up the hypocrisy of socialist liberals:
“It’s always quite fascinating to learn of the utter hypocrisy, avarice and greed of those whose purported philosophy of accumulated wealth of others is one they consider an anathema, considered an act of immorality to have been amassed by the exploitation of the masses, money made on the backs of poor peasants, who receive little in return while such landowners in Venezuela live like kings off the sweat, hard work of the poor locals.”
(Well stated!!!)
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