Free Republic

BARRE – In an e-mailed press release to media outlets, a group has claimed responsibility for defacing the huge American flag that hung over Main Street with oil and “fake blood.” Vandals damaged the flag before Barre’s Memorial Day service on May 30. The Times Argus, The Associated Press and Seven Days received copies of the e-mail from a group identifying itself as the “Iconoclast Front of Vermont” on Thursday at 4:20 p.m. The e-mailed press release claimed the guerilla action was in protest to the Bush administration’s policies on Iraq. The press release headline read: “Flag Defacement was meant...