{"id":36929,"date":"2013-08-03T07:47:15","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T11:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36929"},"modified":"2013-08-03T07:47:15","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T11:47:15","slug":"veterans-sue-new-rochelle-city-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36929","title":{"rendered":"Veterans sue New Rochelle City Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=36930\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36930\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Gadsden_flag.svg_-300x199.png\" alt=\"Gadsden_flag.svg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Gadsden_flag.svg_-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Gadsden_flag.svg_-500x333.png 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Gadsden_flag.svg_.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The ignorant liberals on the city council of New Rochelle, NY forbade local veterans groups from flying the &#8220;Gadsden Flag&#8221; at the local armory, which is owned by the city, because they claim that the flag is &#8220;too political&#8221;, referring to the current usage by the various &#8220;Tea Party&#8221; groups. Of course, this is because the city council is not familiar, nor are they interested in learning the flag&#8217;s actual history. It has been used by the US Marine Corps for centuries since the first Marines enlisted under the flag in Philadelphia in 1775.<\/p>\n<p>The flag flew over the first US Naval commander-in-chief, Commodore Esek Hopkins, on the mainsail of his flagship that same year.<\/p>\n<p>If &#8220;too political&#8221; is a reason to ban things, New Rochell should ban the city council.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/aug\/2\/ny-veterans-sue-after-dont-tread-me-flag-banned-fl\/\">Washington Times<\/a>, veterans groups in New Rochelle, are taking the city to court;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>City officials contacted on Friday did not immediately comment about the suit, or the case, AP reported.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit targets the mayor, the city manager and four council members, and seeks an injunction as well as unspecified damages.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ignorant liberals on the city council of New Rochelle, NY forbade local veterans groups from &hellip; <a title=\"Veterans sue New Rochelle City Council\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36929\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Veterans sue New Rochelle City Council<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberals-suck","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}