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Bennington Battle Flag in studio symbol of Vermonters battling for liberty

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In two weeks Vermont will celebrate the 247th anniversary of the Battle of Bennington. Starting with yesterday’s August 3 episode of Friday at Four, the Creemee Cast studio is getting a jump on the celebration with the Bennington Battle Flag.

The Battle of Bennington was fought by the Green Mountain Boys and a New Hampshire force against the forces of British General John Burgoyne. Our side – the liberty-loving patriots – had just had our butts kicked at the Battle of Hubbardton but we stood united and stood strong at the Battle of Bennington, where our victory contributed to the eventual surrender of Burgoyne’s army at the Battle of Saratoga. Legend claims that the historic flag was carried off the field by Nathaniel Fillmore and passed down the Fillmore family to president Millard Fillmore. In 1877, descendants donated the Bennington flag to the Bennington Museum, where it is also known as the “Fillmore Flag.”

But for us, hanging this flag in studio is about more than Vermont history. It’s about our place in Vermont’s present and future.

The Bennington Battle flag represents the intersection of the labors and struggles of Vermonters for freedom within the great national struggle for liberty. Sometimes, as columnist Rob Roper says, we feel like we are laboring ‘Behind The Lines.’ Regardless, it’s a constant theme of this show – how what we do in Vermont affects the nation, and vice-versa.

For example, today, Saturday August 4, Gen. Michael Flynn, the former National Security Advisor to Donald Trump who we interviewed last week on Friday at Four, will speak live to a Vermont audience. He will speak via Zoom at 3 PM at Ignite Church on South Brownell Road in Williston. At 4 PM the audience will see the Vermont debut of his film Flynn, describing his struggle against corruption in Washington DC. The film will air again at the Morrisville VFW tomorrow, Sunday August 4 at 4 PM, without the Zoom appearance by Gen. Flynn.

Most of Friday’s show is devoted to the Vermont Supreme Court ruling granting legal immunity to the Brattleboro public school that mistakenly administered the Pfizer Covid-19 experimental drug (AKA vaccine) to a six-year-old against his parents’ expressed, repeated wishes, and indeed against his own protest: ‘Daddy said no.’ Some observers say this case could end up at the U.S. Supreme Court, which if so would be another example of the Vermont/U.S. intersection. Co-host Paul Bean has promised he will travel to Washington D.C. and cover the case in person, if it makes it that far.

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  1. Seems like a weird connection lately between folks who celebrate Confederate flags and also the Bennington Battle Flag. I don’t quite get it, seems pretty disparate meanings behind the flags, but it is getting a Neo-Nazi (aka Christian Nationalist) vibe to it lately! 🙁 Hate to think of my great-great-greats having died in the mud to support fascism! (Yeah – cliche or not).

  2. Hey Guy – Michael Flynn is an unabashed white Christian nationalist: “If we are going to have one nation under God, which we must, we have to have one religion. One nation under God, and one religion under God.” I thought conservatives were all about freedom and individual rights. Why are you pushing this zealot’s extreme anti-democratic and anti-Muslim ideology?

    • A goof question… and one that Gen. Flynn should be asked to answer.

    • hey Marky, not quite the intent, God in each persons own eyes, another comment from an atheist, under God means the liberties to choose your own religion and your own meaning of God, religious freedom was the basis of the formation of our country, but you should know that, because you’re so smart.

    • I just checked the online source. Flynn did in fact say those words on a stage at a rally. I may ask him to explain that the next time we interview him. Important to note that the clip offers no context, qualifying statement, etc. But….yes, good question. Every Christian I know (myself included) stands for First Amendment Freedom of Religion. Stay tuned.

    • Actually, some are saying the opposite – such as sounding like a globalist and reciting a prayer referencing seven rays of light? Much speech from celebrities (false idols?) is twisted for a purpose – to benefit the speaker or the receiver. All of it is to steer the populace into whichever direction the powerbrokers wish at the time.

      Meanwhile, the biggest threat to all is a Nephilim corporate behemouth known as Blackrock and it’s software known as Aladdian. “Aladdin (Asset, Liability and Debt and Derivative Investment Network)[1] is an electronic system built by BlackRock Solutions, the risk management division of the largest investment management corporation, BlackRock, Inc. In 2013, it handled about $11 trillion in assets (including BlackRock’s $4.1 trillion assets), which was about 7% of the world’s financial assets, and kept track of about 30,000 investment portfolios.[2] As of 2020, Aladdin managed $21.6 trillion in assets.”

      Follow the money. While everyone is distracted by the theater of the absurd, Larry Fink and company have built a system that is the wealth transfer financial reset, and many have no clue whatsoever how dangerous it is…Blade Runner was predictive programming afterall.

  3. Guy, I have one (small) objection to your piece. While it is true that the colonists were defeated at Hubbardton, their purpose was to delay Burgoyne’s army so the rest of the Green Mountain Boys could beat them to Bennington, seize the armory and prepare for the battle. The Hubbardton “rear guard action” was a remarkable success, and the patriots who fought there did so valiantly knowing they could not win. Indeed, the Patriot commander, who fell at Hubbardton, managed the battle with such skill that Burgoyne himself demanded that he be buried with full British military honors. Had the British arrive in Bennington before the Green Mountain Boys the outcome of that battle and Saratoga might have been very different. And the victory at Saratoga was the key to France entering the war. So, in a way, Hubbardton may well have played a key role in the outcome of the revolution itself.

    • Thank you Jeffrey, you took the words right out of my mouth. The Battle of Hubbardton might very well have been the most unheralded pivot point in the entire Revolutionary War. As you outlined it made Saratoga Victoey possible and ultimately drew in the French and the ultimate Asskick of the British at Yorktown.

  4. The problem with a school, inadvertently or otherwise, doing something to a student against the wishes of their parents, does not rest with the school. The problem is that most parents are prohibited from choosing an alternative school that isn’t as negligent.

    The fix: Pass the H.405 School Choice bill.

  5. What’s ‘the State’ going to do to mitigate flash flooding, you ask? Well duh. Force everyone to buy an electric vehicle, of course. Or install a heat pump. Etc.

    Prediction: If/when ‘the State’ does sue the fossil fuel companies and their suppliers, it will stipulate in its filing that all financial awards go to funding the relocation of homes and businesses out of flood plains and infrastructure improvement costs necessary to upgrade storm drainage…. after the lawyers take their 1/3rd share, of course.

    Talk about the continuing moral dilemma inherent in the ‘nanny state’.

  6. Marxist Ummerica now regards any version of an American Flag as a symbol of hated, oppression and systemic racism. The list of approved flags that are acceptable for public display generally have some rainbow or BLM theme…