Boebert calls for free speech after letter threatens family with MAGA flag
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DENVER (KDVR) Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, said Sunday that he agreed with GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert after she said threatening letters sent to those displaying MAGA flags will “not be tolerated in Colorado’s 4th District.”

“Americans are free to express their political views,” Boebert wrote on X. “MAGA is a movement of the people and we will not allow our people to be intimidated into silence. Fly your banner proudly!”

The representative, who represents Colorado’s 4th District, made the statements stemming from a affiliate KDVR article published on Feb. 28, wherein a Severance family spoke about a threatening letter they had received in response to a “Make America Great Again” banner in their front yard.

The sign in their front yard reads “This is ultra MAGA country.” A family member said the letter was delivered to their mailbox on Wednesday, and said they have no plans to take the banner down.

The typed letter said that if the residents keep “putting them (MAGA flags) up for everyone to see” that “someone might accidentally burn your house down.” The family turned over the letter and envelope to the Severance Police Department in hopes of finding out who threatened them.

“I agree with @laurenboebert on this,” Polis wrote in a quote post on X. “A MAGA flag, just like a Pride flag or Don’t Tread on Me flag, is a Constitutionally protected form of free speech and no one should ever be intimidated into silence.”

Boebert has been vocal about protection of free speech, and vocal that the U.S. flag should be the flag used by government agencies. Boebert previously proposed an amendment to the U.S. House Rules Financial Services Appropriations Division that would prevent the White House from flying any flag except the U.S. flag and preventing any rainbow flag lighting at the White House or vice president’s residence.

She was also seen at a campus protest at George Washington University on May 1, 2024, where she tried to remove a Palestinian flag draped across a statue of George Washington. She told those around her to also try and remove the flag, according to reporting from The Hill, and said the statue was federal property. She also reportedly threatened to try to withhold federal funding if faculty didn’t address the flag.

“If the faculty here, who many are involved in this right now I had people proudly saying that they are faculty and not wanting to remove a Palestinian sign from the George Washington statue. If they don’t want to do something to address this? Well, then kiss your federal funding goodbye,” Boebert said.

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