General Michael Flynn to speak to Vermont audience 3 PM today
Vaccine negligence case could go to U.S. Supreme Court
by Guy Page
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.