Posted on 04/13/2013 5:05:36 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A veterans organization in a New York town is fighting for its right to fly a patriotic flag after the city council refused to let the group display the flag, calling it a symbol of the Tea Party with right-wing connotations.
The United Veterans Memorial & Patriotic Association replaced a tattered American flag at the New Rochelle Armory, flying the Gadsden flag underneath it. The bright yellow “Don’t Tread On Me” flag has been used by the Navy and Marine Corps since 1775.
When a city council member complained to the city manager that he found the flag offensive, the city manager initially decided to let the flag fly anyway. But the city council overruled him, and the flag was taken down. On Wednesday, the council voted 5 to 2 to keep the veterans from putting the flag back up.
The council objected to the flag because they said Peter Parente, the president of the veterans group, is a member of the Tea Party and the group wants to use the flag to make a political point....
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Aren’t flags of this nature protected as a form of Political Speech?
Leftists running around wearing Che Guevarra t-shirts?
No problemo!
/s/
IMHO
I bet you could fly a Mexican flag with no problem.
And so the guy is offended - so what? I’m offended every day I wake up and find out Obama is still in the White House.
Boo-hoo-hoo...that’s all liberals can do is whine and cry - name call - and when none of it works - blackmail...lowest form of life...when they do stuff like this - it makes whatever cause they are against stronger and more widely accepted...Fiensten and her Fascist approach to gun seizure had the same effect...good thing for us - Liberals never learn!
One lib complains...everybody runs and apologizes.
Massive conservatives complain...the liberal agenda accelerates.
Wait til these poor b*stards see a rainbow during a weather event! What a huge political statement?
What’s that? It’s a political statement they agree with? Oh that’s all right then.
We now live in a totalitarian society. If you do not share the Marxist opinion, you will be silenced and destroyed.
So an obviously uneducated person is offended by a flag that symbolizes the War of Independence.
Rainbow fags...er flags are perfectly okay, though.
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And the Mexican flags they fly at schools? Lots of complaints about how they are offensive, and they still fly.
bump....
Such flag emblems can be had as stickers. Its time that Constitutionalists started “tagging” their message out in public, especially on public property and leftist property.
I am SO GLAD we both lost our jobs there and could move back to Texas! HOME SWEET HOME!
So forcing them to take it down DOESN’T make a political point?
It damn sure does. The point is keep your mouth shut and agree with us.
Isn’t that the kind of behavior that “tread on” is all about?
Some serious thinking needs to go on here. The patriots in Lexington/Concord probably had many of the same questions.
Is the Armory city property or State? I would tell the City Council to FO and come and take it down themselves!
“It’s a political statement they agree with?”
There were hammers and sickles being flown by supporters of President Obama during a campaign demonstration. It was absolutely disgusting and sickening but the press didn’t miss a beat and completely disregarded it.
Try to fly a Gadsden flag? That’s a no-no.
Dark days ahead.
IMHO
Screw them. Put it back up every time they they make it come down. It’s freedom of speech.
I find Gay Pride parades offensive. Does that mean I never have to see one on the public streets again? SWEET!
Oh, wait... For me but not for thee... Right...
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