Neo-Confederate Group Mobilizes To Defend Confederate Battle Flag @TPM http://t.co/SfLB3vOPI2

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) June 23, 2015

Earlier in the week, the South Carolina division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans posted a 𠇌ALL TO ACTION !!!!!!!!!!!” on its Facebook page, urging members to call their state legislators and lobby against the removal of the flag, which has flown above Confederate monument near the Capitol since 2000.

𠇏or one hundred and fifty years, Southerners have been maligned by the victors of an unnecessary war. In recent years some headway has been made in educating our fellow countrymen as to the true facts of our shared history,” the post said. 𠇋ut even though Confederate history and the symbols of the South had no connection whatsoever with the senseless crime in question, a loud cry for punitive reparations (first) demanding the removal of the Confederate Battle Flag from the Confederate monument at the Statehouse in Columbia, SC.”