(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) Far-left activists with the Revolutionary Communist Party burned the American flag in Philadelphia on Independence Day under the banner of “America is Nothing to Celebrate.”
The group gathered outside Independence Hall, the historic site where the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776, marking the beginning of the United States’s fight for liberty.
Chaos erupted as the six extremists descended on the Celebration of Freedom event with bullhorns and hate,Town Hall reported.
The communists locked hands, and one person pulled out an American flag and set it on fire. They then mocked attendees, saying, “Come join a real revolution!”
The communist group said on its website before the event it demanded the “ABOLITION of this system and its Constitution” and that the current democratic republic “be DISMANTLED and REPLACED by a new, socialist system based on the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic.”
Although police officers briefly detained the communist group for their actions, they were ultimately let go due to a Supreme Court ruling in the controversial Texas v. Johnson case in 1989, which declared flag burning as an acceptable form of protest.
Despite the legal protections for burning America’s flag, a New York woman was arrested and charged with multiple hate crimes in February for setting fire to a rainbow LGBT “pride” flag.
Meanwhile, the communist group was not the only one to show disrespect toward the country on Independence Day.
“Squad” member and race-baiter Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., made false claims about slavery and America’s Founding Fathers while calling for reparations to be paid to black people.
The Declaration of Independence was written by enslavers and didn’t recognize Black people as human.
Today is a great day to demand Reparations Now ✊🏾
— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) July 4, 2023
According to the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History, of the 55 who attended the Constitutional Convention of 1787, 25 delegates were slave-owners.
The founders punished Southern states for wanting to keep slaves through the 3/5ths clause and the eventual ban on the importation of slaves.
Moreover, Northern founders took steps to immediately ban slavery and emancipate slaves in the Northwest territories.
No American citizen living today legally owned or was a slave after the 13th Amendment banned the practice following the Civil War in 1865.
