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Mass. Senate Unanimously Approves Commission To Replace State Seal And Motto
State House News Service ^ | July 28, 2020 | Chris Lisinski

Posted on 07/30/2020 4:23:31 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

Massachusetts senators unanimously agreed Tuesday that a panel should suggest a new state seal to replace the 122-year-old version that Native Americans largely view as symbolizing white supremacist violence.

The Senate voted 39-0 to approve a Sen. Jason Lewis resolve forming a special commission tasked with designing a new seal and state motto and with studying ways that the existing version, which depicts a Native man standing beneath a disembodied arm and sword, "may be unwittingly harmful to or misunderstood by the citizens of the commonwealth."

(Excerpt) Read more at wbur.org ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History
KEYWORDS: flag; massachusetts
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Maybe two men kissing or even better "migrants" shown with the slogan "Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what your country can do for you." The Kennedy Family would be proud of the transformation.
1 posted on 07/30/2020 4:23:31 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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the once great Commonwealth should change its name to:

..... Dookhanville


2 posted on 07/30/2020 4:26:59 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("when a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced")
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I don't know the Latin but the imagery is as tame as anything.

What the hell did Massachusetts do to deserve a recall on it's seal ?



3 posted on 07/30/2020 4:37:23 AM PDT by knarf
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“What the hell did Massachusetts do to deserve a recall on it’s seal ?”

Tune in to Howie Carr at 3PM. Howie knows Latin and MA history. It’s sure to be entertaining.


4 posted on 07/30/2020 4:52:15 AM PDT by Does so (Neo-Venezuelans = Democrats = Rioters = Looters)
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To: knarf

The latin means “By this sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty”


5 posted on 07/30/2020 4:53:30 AM PDT by cotton1706
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Though the DemoncRATs and Romney-Rat Charlie Fakers dominate its politics, there's a still a strong core of loyal patriots and liberty-lovers in the Bay State. Howie Carr leads them with his daily radio program on WRKO.


6 posted on 07/30/2020 5:00:22 AM PDT by poconopundit (Iron fist in an Irish velvet glove: Kayleigh the Shillelagh we salute your work!)
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7 posted on 07/30/2020 5:04:27 AM PDT by Daffynition (*Mega Dittoes and Mega Prayers* & :))
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Replace the Indian with Elizabeth Warren .


8 posted on 07/30/2020 5:08:01 AM PDT by TheCipher (To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman. - Mark Twain)
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They’ve got some nerve. Why are they a *commonwealth*, anyway? Some nerve.

Just for added measure:

**They also called on lawmakers to take action on two other proposals ahead of their summer recess: a bill banning public schools from using Indian mascots and another strengthening protections for Indian burial sites and sacred objects.**


9 posted on 07/30/2020 5:08:30 AM PDT by Daffynition (*Mega Dittoes and Mega Prayers* & :))
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Here they go again. Erasing any trace of Native Americans in our culture. Apparently they really hate Indians.


10 posted on 07/30/2020 5:12:23 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE
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Don’t state senators have anything better to do? What a meaningless waste. Worrying that somebody somewhere somehow may be offended. They should unanimously be removed from office. It’s an action that is both waste and abuse.


11 posted on 07/30/2020 5:13:26 AM PDT by D Rider
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The new seal will no doubt include a penis, vagina, and a rectum.

The motto:
“Semper Sodomiticum”


12 posted on 07/30/2020 5:17:09 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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Massholes.


13 posted on 07/30/2020 5:32:36 AM PDT by wny
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A new motto for Taxachusetts :

“Confidimus in tributa, argentum cedo”


14 posted on 07/30/2020 5:35:18 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (China kills over 650,000 and the sheeple sleep. Cops kill one person, and cities burn.)
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https://duckduckgo.com/?q=massachusetts+pilgrim+hat+arrow+through+it&atb=v221-1&iax=images&ia=images


15 posted on 07/30/2020 5:50:45 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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.......OMG...! referencing a “memorial shaft”....why,
that looks awfully like a...well, you know, an erect
....um....well, that’s gotta go... and that “patriot”
is holding a GUN....!!?? that’s gotta go, too...and
that bayonet-thingie on his belt...? someone could get
hurt by that thing...!! this is just another example of
the white supremacist/dominance that must be suppressed...!!


16 posted on 07/30/2020 5:51:49 AM PDT by TokarevM57
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Democrats are simply doing what they have always done since 1830; kicking out the Indians and keeping the land. Starting with Andrew Jackson, to the Land-o-lakes Squaw, to the Massachusetts Seal...


17 posted on 07/30/2020 5:52:22 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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Massachusetts sinks into the quagmire of the decadence of Western Civilisation.


18 posted on 07/30/2020 6:23:23 AM PDT by Savage Beast (President Trump, loving God, America, and the American People, is on the Side of love the Angels!)
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I believe that is Massasoit, for whom the state was named. A few wilting flowers have the control and they will not go willingly as long as they can change anything they complain about.


19 posted on 07/30/2020 6:30:56 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell..?)
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If they studied the intended meanings of the various parts of the seal, imparted to it in the laws enacting it, they would not object to it.

Yes, Massachusetts is not an “Indian” state, but the Indian on the seal is as much honoring the “natives” of Massachusetts as the arm holding a sword honors the war of independence from Britain - seeking peace but not peace without Liberty.


20 posted on 07/30/2020 7:03:48 AM PDT by Wuli
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