These people are retarded.
The Indian is IN A SHIELD and represents the Indian heritage of Massachusetts. (Where do they think they got the states name from?!)
The sword is NOT attacking the Indian nor is meant to infer violence on the Indian - it represents the spirit of fighting for liberty which these Marxist twits want to destroy.
That is true. See the Bedford Flag of 1775.
The Latin motto translates to: “By the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty,” or more literally “she seeks with the sword a quiet peace under liberty.”