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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I encourage you to read Tony Horwitz's piece.

www.theatlantic.com/author/tony-horwitz
Confederates in the Attic should be mandatory reading in high school.  Unfortunately, most of the morons proudly displaying this abhorrent symbol of racism (and treason) are chsllenged by the content of People Magazine.  There is no moral equivalency with Revolutionary Flags as there is no recent corollary to Jim Crow.  This, however,  causes me consider the Tea Party's adoption of the Gadsden Flag in a new light.  Does this mean that they oppose the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amenfmdnts and seek to reintroduce a form of indentured servitude?[/quote]

The Tea Party's adoption of the Gadsden "Don't Tread On Me" Flag is thoroughly laughable.  The Gadsden flag was based on Ben Franklin's famous design depicting the colonies as a snake cut into pieces, with the slogan "Join, or Die" which was advocating for a strong federal union of states, not the weak, decentralized or worse yet secessionist nonsense that the Tea Partiers constantly babble.  That theme is again echoed in the 13 rattles on the snake's tail in the Gadsden flag, and the fact that the Gadsden flag was first carried into battle by FEDERAL troops, not fed-haters or "states rights" advocates....

It serves one thing - to put the Tea Party's utter ignorance of history on display, and just goes to show that they are all just relying on rhetoric and groupthink like brainwashed fools.[/quote]

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