Today is the 249th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill. It is a good day to raise a flag suited to the anniversary. One local resident and a contributor to these pages applied to have her city fly the Pine Tree Flag on this date, but it both refused the application and an appeal. They chose to fly a Pride Flag Instead.
On the 249th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill the City of Nashua raised the Progress flag instead of the Pine Tree Flag.
Beth Scaer tried for weeks to get the city to approve her application, a story we covered here and here (and here). The liberal city and its radically left-wing mayor repeatedly refused despite the potential risk of a lawsuit for viewpoint discrimination.
But Wait, There’s More!
Not long after not raising the Pine Tree Flag, I got this message from Beth. “Also, the City removed the flag for the State of New Hampshire and replaced it with the Progress flag.”
Progress, indeed. Perhaps we can sell Nashua to Massachusetts. It can still be the Gate City, but it will be a gateway to the nuttiness of modern-day Massachusetts, which would have the Founder rebelling the moment they learned of its decline from liberty, not to mention all those taxes.
Nice work, Mayor Donchess. You not only refused to fly a piece of American history but to demonstrate why that is unconstitutional.
Maybe, with any luck, someone will take you to the cleaners, sorry – I mean court. The sad part, of course, is that you don’t care how much that will cost the city’s taxpayers, but it cost the equally discriminatory and stubborn city of Boston 2.1 million dollars to lose a similar case against another frequent contributor to these pages, Camp Constituion’s Hal Shurtleff.
