Why Team Biden must not fly BLM flags from US embassies

US consulates and embassies around the globe will fly Black Lives Matter flags to honor the brand new Juneteenth federal vacation this weekend.
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Beneath stress from the highest ranks of the Biden State Division, US consulates and embassies around the globe will fly Black Lives Matter flags to honor the brand new Juneteenth federal vacation this weekend. It’s a blatant violation of the Hatch Act, which forbids authorities staff from participating in most political activism.

Plus, the solely flags it’s authorized to fly at these amenities are Previous Glory and the host nation’s, plus the Overseas Service flag and the POW/MIA flag.

As Dave Seminara reviews at Metropolis Journal, State pretends the BLM flags “present our dedication to democratic ideas, justice, and racial fairness.” No: They endorse a political motion (and a dodgy charity) that’s out of step with the broad American public.

Assist for Black Lives Matter by no means topped 50% even within the days after the George Floyd killing, partly as a result of the slogan offensively implies widespread denial of a transparent fact. By Might of this yr, help had dropped to a measly 31% — and even that’s absolutely largely for the benign-enough sentiment, not the motion’s extremist agenda, from defund-the-police to frank Marxism and even opposition to the nuclear household. 

The riots beneath the banner in summer season 2020 didn’t assist. Neither did the myriad monetary scandals tainting the Black Lives Matter International Community Basis, together with funds to make use of insiders’ members of the family and purchase a $6 million Los Angeles mansion.

But this Juneteenth isn’t even a primary for the State Division: It already urged embassies, and so forth., to fly the flag for all of Black Historical past Month in February, and certainly for many of 2021, after Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley was put in as State’s first “chief range and inclusion officer.”

Congress — and the courts — must stomp on this blatant violation of federal legislation within the service of woke idiocy.