San Francisco city officials have removed the “Appeal to Heaven” flag, which has flown for 60 years over the city’s Civic Center Plaza. The flag was removed on Saturday, just days after the New York Times declared the flag to be a symbol of the January 6 U.S. Capitol rioters and Christian nationalism in an effort to smear U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.
Meanwhile, far-left activists and the corporate media have undertaken a concerted effort to force Alito and Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse themselves from several pending cases addressing the prosecutions of the Capitol rioters and former President Donald J. Trump. A New York Times story revealing that Justice Alito had flown an upside-down American flag outside his home shortly before Joe Biden’s inauguration in 2021 kicked off the recusal effort. The newspaper followed up last Wednesday with the story revealing Alito had flown an “Appeal to Heaven” flag outside his family’s beach house.
The “Appeal to Heaven” has flown over San Francisco‘s Civic Center Plaza since it was first raised during Flag Day on June 14, 1964. Other flags on the plaza include the Gadsden flag and the Texas Lone Star state flag. Each flag commemorates a critical moment in American history. City park officials justified the flag’s removal, arguing that while it once symbolized the “quest for American independence,” it has “since been adopted by a different group — one that doesn’t represent the city’s values.”
Last week, the National Pulse reported that the “Appeal to Heaven” flag, despite the media’s assertions, is not a symbol exclusive to the Capitol rioters. Dating to the American Revolution, the flag was designed by General George Washington‘s secretary, Colonel Joseph Reed, and used as a naval ensign in the Continental Army.
