Posted on 03/30/2013 8:01:26 AM PDT by Pharmboy
War veterans in New Rochelle are protesting the city's order for the so-called Gadsden flag to be taken down from its post outside the armory. Jonathan Vigliotti reports
War veterans in New Rochelle are protesting the city's order for the so-called Gadsden flag to be taken down from its post outside the armory.
A symbol of pride for the veterans, the flag features a rattlesnake and the words, "Don't tread on me."
"That flag is the first flag of the Continetal Navy," said Peter Parente, president of the United Veterans Memorial. He helped hoist the flag up on March 21 during a ceremony to swap out the tattered American flag.
"Before the red, white and blue stripes of America, that was our American flag," he said. "That was the flag we fought under in the Revolutionary War to have the America we are today."
Not everyone agrees. Mayor Noam Bramson, a Democrat, says the flag has become political in nature after being adopted by the tea party movement. This week, he met with council members who, in an informal vote, decided to take it down Thursday.
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Don’t you know that its now a terrorist flag?
We are never going to win with these people like the Mayor by numbers or votes. They have infested our government and society like cockroaches.
We will be fighting these people in the streets one day.
While I was hesitating a city worker yelled out, "Do you want a summons?" I thought, "Geez, put that on the license plates."
It works as well on the state line sign: "Welcome to New York. Do you want a summons?"
We should not ever give up on this one. Our patriots died fighting under this flag...the h*ll with the New Rochelle council.
Rob and Laura Petrie seemed like such a nice couple. The town library is called the Huguenot Library. Rochelle, France was a Huguenot stronghold. About half the settlers in New Netherlands were Huguenots, they even had their own towns.
New Rochelle today is a dump. Just not as bad as the neighboring Bronx.
I wonder if that 'informal vote' violated any open meeting laws.
That’s a grim view, but you may be right.
You are one of the few that has grasped the truth. They are so perverting our electoral process that they have almost become entrenched. It is still not too late but will soon become so.
The Huguenots were BIG believers in the IInd Amendment. They understood the dangers of central government.
...that's what it's coming to, after all.
‘Or what?’ might be the question to ask. It’s a beautiful flag.
“Or what?” and ‘Says who?’
Yep...be great to see a line of veterans from all over the area standing there not allowing the town to remove the flag.
They will not stop until they have removed everything that pertains to the once proud country we live in.
As a side note we will be having a 2A rally in Belvidere N.J. (Warren County) at the courthouse on Sunday April 14th
at 10 AM.
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At one time, New Rochelle was a very nice place to live. Then they put in the housing projects. Now you are best advised never to visit there.
Indeed...aside from where Rob and Laura Petrie lived (”The Dick van Dyke Show”), it was also featured in the lyrics to “Happy to Keep His Dinner Warm” from the original Broadway production of “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.” [Very un-PC lyrics for now]
New Rochelle, New Rochelle,
That’s the place where the mansion will be
For me and the darling bright young man
I’ve picked out for marrying me.
He’ll do well, I can tell,
So it isn’t a moment too soon
To plan on my life in New Rochelle,
The wife of my darling tycoon.
I’ll be so happy to keep his dinner warm
While he goes onward and upward;
Happy to keep his dinner warm
Till he comes wearily home from down town.
I’ll be there waiting until his mind is clear
While he looks through me, right through me;
Waiting to say, “Good evening, dear.
I’m pregnant. What’s new with you from down town?”
Oh, to be loved by a man I respect;
To bask in the glow of his perfectly understandable neglect.
Oh, to belong in the aura of his frown—darling busy frown.
Such heaven—wearing the wifely uniform
While he goes onward and upward.
Happy to keep his dinner warm
Till he comes wearily home from down town.
If that's his reasoning, and if that reasoning prevails, no flag can fly. They're all "political in nature."
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