EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS WITH FREE SPEECH -- City Commissioners Uncomfortable With First Amendment and Flags?

The same City Commissioners who abuse freedom of speech at nearly every meeting, interrupting and insulting public speakers, have now shown their true colors regarding support for our troops until they come home.

The same City Commissionsers who were uncomfortable in 2005 with the Rainbow flags now have emotional problems with another First Amendment issue.

Why did St. Augustine abolish our "First Amendment forum" for local groups' flag-flying displays, after years of flag-flying on our Bridge of Lions and our Bayfront?

Why were seven Bayfront flagpoles removed in 2005?

Controlling, crabby officials punish free speech, whether by African-Americans, veterans, artists, entertainers or Gays/Lesbians.

Our flag-flying forum must be restored, whether honoring our troops, history, organizations or diversity.

As Ronald Reagan said, "politicians are like diapers -- they must be changed regularly and for the same reasons." As Robert Kennedy said in 1966 at Berkeley, "it is not enough to allow dissent, we must demand it, for there is much to dissent from;"

Let freedom ring in the Nation's Oldest City.