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May 28, 2010
Morning Briefs for Friday Item #1: Again With the Progressive, Tea-Party Deranged Flag-Haters
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at May 28, 2010 4:01 AM
First, they send home four high school boys for wearing the American Flag on Mexican Beerfest Day. Now, it turns out the progs don't care much for the Gadsden "Don't Tread on Me" flag either.
The Warren Fire Department drew fire Friday morning when members raised one of the nation's oldest -- but these days, controversial -- flags from one of three flagpoles they maintain at the Warren Town Common.
Their flying of the Gadsden Flag, a Revolutionary War-era flag depicting a coiled rattlesnake with the slogan "Don't Tread On Me" below it, angered some residents because though it was originally created to protest the British government prior to and during the American Revolution, it has become a symbol to some of the American Tea Party movement. That conservative movement questions many of the policies, particularly fiscal, of the federal government.
The flag was raised alongside the state and U.S. flags early Friday morning. By 10:30 a.m., Warren Fire Chief Al Galinelli had received a call about it from the town manager. By the afternoon, it was taken down.
The Fire Department should have flown something less controversial, like the flag of Mexico or a picture of the Virgin Mary smeared with elephant feces.
