Display of Gadsden Flag Quashed by Ocala, Florida, Authorities

Display of Gadsden Flag Quashed by Ocala, Florida, Authorities

September 12, 2014

What were seeing is the criminalization of free speech, manifested in incidents where the government attempts to censor speech that is controversial, politically incorrect or unpopular. Under the First Amendment, the government has no authority to pick and choose what type of speech it approves.-John W. Whitehead

By Bob Adelmann

FromThe New American

When Keith Greenberg, the owner of a sporting goods store named the Gear Barrel, moved to Florida from Chicago in May, he said it was because he felt his rights were being stomped on in Illinois and preferred living and working in freedom-loving Florida. One of the first freedoms he decided to exercise was his First Amendment right to advertise his patriotism by hanging the Gadsden flag a yellow banner with a picture of a rattlesnake and the words "Don't Tread on Me" in front of his store. In August, he received a letter from the city claiming that the flag violated the city code and that he had to remove it or be faced with fines of up to $500 a day.

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