Collectivists attack the quintessential symbol of American liberty. Veterans sue New Rochelle, New York over flag ban

The New Rochelle City Council acted on complaints that the so-called Gadsden flag had become a symbol of the tea party and made a political statement.

"So-called Gadsden Flag"????" "So-called?!?" This moke is either totally ignorant of our own history or deliberately seeks to discredit and expunge it. The thing to remember is that collectivists always attack the symbols of the systems they seek to undermine. The Nazis banned music, imprisoned and tortured conquered peoples for singing their old national anthems, summarily executed French boys caught painting the Cross of Lorraine on walls and even arrested Dutch Citizens for wearing the color orange, the symbol of the Dutch royal family in exile. The war on the Gadsden Flag, the symbol of free Americans since 1775, is no accident. Collectivists want it flushed down the memory hole. If they could burn them all, they would.

Ironically, New Rochelle was settled by refugee French Huguenots in 1688 who were fleeing persecution such as the Dronnade. Many of the settlers were artisans and craftsmen from the city of La Rochelle, France, and so named the town "New Rochelle." Wikipedia reports:

In 1775, General George Washington stopped in New Rochelle on his way to assume command of the Army of the United Colonies in Massachusetts. The British Army briefly occupied sections of New Rochelle and Larchmont in 1776. Following British victory in the Battle of White Plains, New Rochelle became part of a "Neutral Ground" for General Washington to regroup his troops. After the Revolutionary War ended in 1784, patriot Thomas Paine was given a farm in New Rochelle for his service to the cause of independence. The farm, totaling about 300 acres (1.2 km2), had been confiscated from its owners by state of New York due to their Tory activities.

One wonders what the Revolutionary War generation would think of this move. It is no accident that Mayor Noam Bramson is a Democrat. No doubt he flies his own Obama flag sticker from his car bumper. Collectivists always seek to impose their own symbols upon their subject populations. That is what this is all about -- the eternal war between the collective borg and individual liberty.