This letter is in reference to your article “Activist Plans to Burn US Flag Nov. 3rd” and Ryan Young's letter from Reno, NV, “Regarding Burning the US Flag in Keene” Both article and letter appeared in the New Hampshire Free Press (October 2008).

I, for one, wish to congratulate “Jesse” Maloney, 21, of Keene, NH [who, after announcing his valid reasons] plans to burn a US flag just prior to the election on Monday, Nov. 3rd at 2:00pm in Central Square, Keene.

However, American Revolutionary War flags, such as “Liberty”, “Betsy Ross” (13 stars and stripes), “Don't Tread on Me”, colonial town militia and the 13 original sovereign state flags, all predate the emergence of the flag which symbolizes the US Imperialist Empire. These pre-US American flags should never be burned because they flew under our glorious Articles of Confederation, the Constitution of the Revolution, which liberated us from British Tyranny until Shay's Rebellion (1786) was crushed by the US Empire in embryo.

American Revolutionary War flags should replace the US flag so that the Stars & Stripes shall never have to be burned again, any time, any place.

The un-American flag of the Tory hatched, Bill of Rightless Constitution of the Us Federalist “Republic”, born from the jack boot of Terror over the rebellious, anti-federalist colonists of western Massachusetts in 1786, is now, as it was at birth, a symbol of Universal Tyranny.

My bet is that American Anti-federalist founding fathers, such as, Philadelphiensis Patrick Henry, John De Witt, et al, would have championed Jesse Maloney's burning of the US flag (and his reasons for doing so) because they authored the “sentiments” and precepts of the Revolution, i.e. the Bill of Rights, after having violently opposed the creation of the US Federal Constitution and Federal Government and its Tory flag which they declared to be: “a consolidated Union”, “an Empire”, “execrable commands of Tyranny”, “commanding a standing army”, “illegal”, “undemocratic”, “unconstitutional”, “not a republic”, “an aristocratic tyranny” “a despotic monarchy”, “a destroyer of Equal Liberty”, “a total dereliction from the sentiments of the Revolution.” (1) How else could the US Empire have conceived, carried out and covered-up the genocide of its own people on 9/11/01, if it had not been born “a total dereliction from the sentiments of the Revolution”? (John De Witt)

Again, I would like to wish many happy returns of the day to Jesse Maloney for expressing his worthy ideas and for risking loss of Liberty in America's emerging secessionist fever and War on Tyranny, American Revolutionary War style. But, when I look into Obama's face, I see “Bleeding Kansas” and Gettysburg. (2)

Yours Truly
For a Free Menotomy*
David G. Pearson
Arlington, MA

(1) “The Letters of Philadelphiensis,” The Complete Anti-Federalist by Herbert J Storing (Chicago, 1981); and The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Series, Vol. XII, No. 1, (1955), pp. 3-46 under the title, “Men of Little Faith: The Anti-Federalists on the Nature of Representative Government.”
(2)See Secession: How Vermont and all the other States Can Save Themselves from the Empire, by Thomas H. Naylor, Feral House, 2008; and Vermont's free state secessionist underground think tank & citizen's network at POB 544, Charlotte, Vermont 05445, Telephone 802-425-4133, web http://vermontrepublic.org.
(*) “Swift Running Water” stronghold of the Massachusetts, birthplace of the American Revolution and Uncle Sam (Wilson), originator of West Cambridge and Arlington, Massachusetts.