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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I commend Alito for taking the opportunity to teach the liberals who think history started when they were born a little about the history of this country.

The idea that he would fly a flag designed and used during the American Revolution helps our youth learn what they failed to learn in school.

In a letter dated October 20, 1775,[1][2] General Washington's secretary, Colonel Joseph Reed, suggested a "flag with a white ground and a tree in the middle, the motto AN APPEAL TO HEAVEN" be used for the ships Washington commissioned.[5] Two heavily armed American scows, or "floating batteries," launched on the Charles River in September 1775 had used the Pine Tree flag as an ensign; in his letter, Reed described the banner he proposed as "the flag of our floating batteries."[2][1] The six schooners commissioned by Congress beginning in October 1775 to intercept British ships entering Boston—the USS Hancock, Lee, Franklin, Harrison, Lynch, and Warren—used the Pine Tree flag.[2][1]
The following year, on April 29, 1776,[2][1] the Massachusetts Council established the flag of the state navy with a resolution stating: "...that the Colours be a white Flag, with a green Pine Tree, and the Inscription, 'An Appeal to Heaven'."[1][5][2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Tree_Flag[/quote]

The far right has been doing a lot of misappropriating of patriotic symbols - this one as one example, the Gadsden "Don't Tread On Me" flag as another - that one is particularly ironic as it was based on Benjamin Franklin's woodcut of a snake cut into 13 pieces, with the caption, "Join, or Die" calling for the need for a strong federal union.  The exact opposite of the "shrink federal government down to nothing" loose bond and states' rights and sovereignty that the far right wants.  That, and it was also first flown by the newly incorporated US Marines, which again is the opposite of state guards and the local militias that the far right loves.[/quote]

The far Left has done its share of co-opting historical symbols as well, including flags.  Look into the origins of the rainbow flag, which didn't become an LGBTQ symbol until 1978.[/quote]

And yet it's a symbol of love. Not hate. Wonderful.[/quote]

Depends on who you ask.  For some it has become a symbol of an overly-aggressive political agenda.[/quote]

Because they hate the love between two people of the same sex. Wow. [/quote]

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