{"id":712473,"date":"2010-04-08T23:30:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T03:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.75694"},"modified":"2010-04-08T23:47:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T03:47:59","slug":"dont-tread-on-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/712473","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t tread on them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        More fallout from the Gadsden Flag flap.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Dead wrong&#8221; is what Justin Bernier called the Capitol police department&#8217;s decision to rescind approval of the Tea Party activists&#8217; request to fly the Don&#8217;t Tread on Me&#8221; flag.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; \"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em; \">The authorities are dead wrong to bow to political pressure from members of the legislature and deny a legitimate request to fly the Gadsden flag over the capitol,&#8221;&nbsp;<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); \">Bernier, a Republican running for Congress from the 5th District, said in a statement.<\/span><\/font><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; \"><span><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em; \">&#8220;C<\/font><\/span><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em; \">onnecticut citizens have good reason to be upset when the flags of foreign countries are allowed to fly over the statehouse, but not a flag associated with our nation&#8217;s founding and with the United States Marine Corps.<\/font><span><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em; \">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/font><\/span><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em; \">This is more proof that the political class in Hartford&nbsp;is completely out of touch with the rest of us.&#8221;<\/font><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Meanwhile the Family Institute of Connecticut sent an email to its supporters decrying the Capitol police department&#8217;s decision.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The email singles out Democratic state Rep. Michael Lawlor, one of many people who questioned whether it was appropriate to fly a flag that is now associated with the Tea Party movement at the Capitol, especially since the flag-raising ceremony was to have been followed by a political press conference (that event has now been scrapped, though the flag-raising will go on as planned. Tea Party activists are bringing their own flagpole.)<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;It is time to stand beside our Tea Party friends &#8212; for liberty and against the likes of Rep. Lawlor,&#8221; the email says.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More fallout from the Gadsden Flag flap. &#8220;Dead wrong&#8221; is what Justin Bernier called the Capitol police department&#8217;s decision to rescind approval of the Tea Party activists&#8217; request to fly the Don&#8217;t Tread on Me&#8221; flag. &#8220;The authorities are dead wrong to bow to political pressure from members of the legislature and deny a legitimate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2521,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Zlv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}