Justice Sam Alito's Newest Reason To Recuse And Resign: New Flag Flying
Just about the time you thought the Alito story couldn't get worse, it did. The New York Times reports that there was not just the upside down American flag insurrectionist message flying high and proud above Alito's home, but he also flew the Appeal to Heaven flag over his beach house last summer.
This time, it was the “Appeal to Heaven” flag, which, like the inverted U.S. flag, was carried by rioters at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Also known as the Pine Tree flag, it dates back to the Revolutionary War, but largely fell into obscurity until recent years and is now a symbol of support for former President Donald J. Trump, for a religious strand of the “Stop the Steal” campaign and for a push to remake American government in Christian terms.
If you thought the upside-down American flag was a symbol of the insurrection, the Appeal to Heaven flag is ten times worse. Not only was it carried by the insurrectionists, it was and is a symbol of the Christian nationalist movement, as former FBI agent Peter Strzok observes in the video above.
"This is now the second time we've had two different flags flown in front of Alito residences that resonate very strongly with the January 6th insurrectionists," Strzok said.