New Hampshire history marker for communist draws GOP anger

A historical marker dedicated to a New Hampshire labor activist who championed women’s rights and was a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union – but who also joined the Communist Party and was sent to prison – has draw objections from Republican officials and scrutiny from the governor.

Known as “The Rebel Girl” for her fiery speeches, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was born in Concord in 1890. A green and white Historical Highway Marker dedicated to her, one of 278 across the state, was unveiled Monday near her birthplace.

In addition to her rights activism, the marker also says she joined the Communist Party in 1936 and was sent to prison in 1951. She was one of many party members prosecuted “under the notorious Smith Act,” the marker says, which forbade any attempts to advocate, abet or teach the violent destruction of the U.S. government.

Flynn later chaired the Communist Party of the United States and she died in Moscow during a visit in 1964, at age 74. She was cremated, and her ashes were taken on a “flower-decked bier” to Red Square during a funeral tribute, according to Associated Press accounts at the time.

Republican Gov. Chris Sununu is calling for a review of the state’s historical marker program.

“This is a devout communist,” said Joseph Kenney, a Republican member of the Executive Council, at a regular meeting Wednesday. “We are the ‘Live Free or Die’ state. How can we possibly promote her propaganda, which still exists now through this sign in downtown Concord?”

David Wheeler, a Republican who’s also on the five-member Executive Council, which votes on state contracts and Sununu’s department appointees, said he wants the council to have more oversight of the historical marker process. tory.”

"Communism should have no place on American soil!'

That concept is long past relevant...
The United States is as communist controlled as any other communist nation across the globe...

The Aamerican sheeple now understand that the First Amendment has nothing to do with "free speech & thought"... It just calls for them to: :
Bow down!... Obey!... Snitch!...

Statues of V.I. Lenin are in the United States as we speak.

Article in Hispanic news publication:
Why Do the Lenin Statues Still Stand?
July 2, 2020 Commentary
By Daniel Nardini

Many statues of Lenin were erected in the Soviet Union—his own creation—and many other Communist countries long after his death. Almost all of his statues have since been torn down (only those existing Communist countries still keep them up) in all those countries that have thrown off Communism.

It is an irony that three Lenin statues actually stand in the United States right now. One in Seattle, Washington, a bust of Lenin in Los Angeles, California, and one in New York City.

These statues were brought over by private collectors and therefore sit on private land. The Lenin statues can still be seen. What is amazing to me is that these statues to a tyrant and a certified mass murderer are still very much standing. They have not been defaced, and they certainly have not been pulled down.

Communist and anarchist mobs have had no problem destroying statues to Americans who committed far, far less heinous crimes than Lenin did. These statues and monuments, on both public and private lands, are being defaced, torn down and destroyed by leftist mobs.

But the Lenin statues still stand. I guess they will not touch one of their own? These mobs do not seem to really know nor care about history.

They would willingly deface and destroy a statue of America’s first president George Washington who did a lot of good for this country than touch the statue of a mass murderer like Lenin?
From Lawndale News (Chicago).

New Hampshire needs statues to such state patriots as Herbert “I Led Three Lives” Philbrick, an FB deep undercover operative in the Communist Party for many years and key witness in the Communist trials at Foley Square in the late 40s and early 50s. He was one of my mentors.

Also William Bill Loeb, editor of the Manchester Union Leader newspaper, and advisor to Teddy Roosevelt (I helped TRs granddaughter Edith Kermit Roosevelt write some articles/columns for the MUL. She was a hoot to work with.

Bill’s newspaper philosophy was that “The editorial page is mine. The Letters to the Editor pages belong to the people”.

He and his wife Nackey were and still are great American patriots, and friends of mine. They both deserve a point statue for their defense of freedom and of an honest press.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was a traitor, period and only deserved to be executed as such.

Most likely a Soviet NKVD, then KGB agent, too.

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