The mother of the woman at the center of the so-called “flag controversies” surrounding Justice Samuel Alito has admitted that her daughter and son-in-law harassed Alito and his wife, Martha-Ann Alito, but insisted their sustained harassment campaign against the Alitos was done “with good intent.” New details of the alleged campaign against the Supreme Court Justice and wife were revealed in a piece by The New York Times, in which the paper attempts to make excuses for the behavior, which included a male in the household calling Mrs. Alito a “c*nt.”
“Ms. Baden’s mother, Barbara Baden, a 75-year-old former executive at the Public Broadcasting Service and longtime resident, said she hesitated over the sign at her home because she feared it looked ‘tacky.’ But she left it up because she did not want to interfere with what she saw as the couple’s expression of political concern. ‘They made the signs with good intent,’ she said.”
Those signs in question read “Bye Don” and “Fuck Trump.” Other signs the couple erected — following the January 6 riots — included ones reading “Trump Is a Fascist” and “You Are Complicit.” They also personally protested outside of the home of the Supreme Court justice following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, holding signs reading “Abort SCOTUS,” “Alito was @ Jan 6,” and “Fascist Alito.”
After this months-long harassment campaign, Mrs. Alito finally broke. Per the Times: “Mrs. Alito addressed the pair by name, used an expletive and called them ‘fascists,’ the couple told The Times and said in texts at the time.” Astonishingly, and despite having personally tormented the Alitos for months, Ms. Baden suddenly felt attacked. “She does not remember her precise words, but recalls something like this: How dare you behave this way. You’ve been harassing us, over signs. You represent the highest court in the land. Shame on you.”
FLY THE FLAGS.
The Times reported Justice Alito‘s statement that the upside-down flag “was briefly placed by Mrs. Alito in response to a neighbor’s use of objectionable and personally insulting language on yard signs.”
Clearly, Mrs. Alito flew an upside-down American flag, not because it is “a symbol of the ‘Stop the Steal’ campaign,” as the Times would have its readers believe, but because it’s a widely recognized symbol of “in distress,” originating with the U.S. Navy. Also originating in U.S. Naval tradition is the Revolutionary-War-era Pine Tree Flag, also flown by the Alitos. The Times claims that this flag is “associated with the Jan. 6 riot, as well as with a Christian nationalist movement,” but as The National Pulse recently reported, that is not accurate
