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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Scuse?

Liberasl really DO know how to re-write history!! The true story is below. Note how the PP twisted this, leaving out the individual liberty and freedom part. The fracture rattlesnake with Join or die you speak of was about defense of the colonies during the French and Indian War.

Full history here:

http://www.foundingfathers.info/stories/gadsden.html

Furthermore:

[i]The Gadsden Flag was birthed out of the Revolutionary period.  It was a tumultuous time for the early Americans.  Many had just escaped a life of tyranny in England and were fighting the long tentacles of the British who were insisting they continue to live under their thumbs.  During the French and Indian war, Benjamin Franklin, seeing a need for unity among all of the colonies i[b]n order for the continued quest for individual liberty and freedom that they sought in America,[/b] drew a cartoon for a local paper, The Pennsylvania Gazette, depicting a rattle snake with the words Join or Die underneath it.
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[i]The rattlesnake became a great symbol for early America because it’s a reptile that just wants to be left alone.  It will not attack unless it’s been threatened but once it’s been stepped on, it’s retaliation is deadly. They never surrender and if you engage them, you better be ready to die.  The bands on the rattle represented the number of colonies, which is significant, because it’s the only part of the snake that can grow.  And, when each band on the rattle stands alone it cannot be heard, but when it is joined by the other bands, it’s sound can be terrifying![/i]

http://www.libertyjuice.com/2010/11/12/dont-tread-on-me-2/#

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