Amherst is the town where on or about 9/10/2001 a woman objected at the town meeting to flying the flag on the town common, saying it was a symbol of oppression. They are still vile, immature, ungrateful moonbats out in happy valley.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view/20091022jihad_enough_not_in_amherst/
One of the salutary side effects of the Brownian moment was that a pair of moonbat aldermen in Newton (just west of Boston) withdrew a similar motion.
Former U.S. Marine "Racebannon"(replaced his name with FReeperhandle) , who said he drove two hours from Bristol, Connecticut to attend the meeting, questioned why elected officials would allow the flag of the United Nations to fly outside the Amherst town hall year-round. "Why are you flying the U.N. flag at the seat of your government? This is an American city," said Racebannon
Amherst resident Emily Lewis said she was uncomfortable seeing the streets lined with flags. "It's a militaristic symbol," she stated while Jennie Traschen, a University of Massachusetts physics professor, said, "The flag is a symbol of tyranny and fear and destruction and terrorism."