I fly the gadsden flag high and proud at home on my truck and love the T-shirts
I also love the "I have ben tread on" flag
I used to work union The reps used to try to give me a hard time about it and I used to love telling them to go f**k them selfs Besides that I rarely get a negative comment
Dont have a Gadsden T-shirt, but I do have several 'Dont Tread On Me' shirts from dontreadonme.com and Gadsden & Culpepper.
The first one I ever saw was worn by a guy I worked with. He wore it on one of our trips to Egypt and I remember at least 3 people in various airports giving positive comments. One guy was in uniform, Army IIRC, and actually walked past us then turned around and came back to tell us he how much he liked it.
LMAO, I dared him to get an 'Infidel' shirt for our next trip over there.: He wouldnt do it....thankfully. Them people over there have NO sense of humor.
That some times the government needs to know some Americans remember that this country was payed for in blood and that if you trample on someones freedom they well knock back...... I believe Thomas Jefferson said it best "Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.”
― Thomas Jefferson
I saw a guy waving a Gadsden at a protest in **RUSSIA**. Absolutely thrilled me.
Maybe the whole *world* will wake up.
Me, I'll fly it just because it makes LIe-berals lose control of their bodily functions, if
nothing else. I fly the Confederate flag for the same reason, sometimes. (Have you
ruined an Obama-voter's day today? It takes so little, and it means SO much...)
The flag is the highest form of patriotism and should never be hesitated in displaying it. I have a flag hanging outside of my house and everyday when I get home I adjust it from weather conditions so that it flies proudly
What amazes me is that the Gadsden flag has such a negative connotation to it, but the Che t-shirt is just fine. So, a mass murderer is okay, but a navy battle flag isn't. Strange world we live in.
Was a sad day seeing the Culpepper flag being co opted by the tea party dragging the history of that flag into the dirt. The better choice for that group would of been the Bonnie Blue.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bonnie_Blue_Flag
None the less, per the First Amendment it's your choice to fly what ever flag you want to fly....so, exercise that right...
I just watched the full series of Jericho, it was nice to see the town fly the Gadsden flag when the tyrannical federal government was taking their power too far and the people were on the brink of revolution.
It flies every day, rain or shine. It means power the the states not to the federal government. I'm not a crazy red neck. People around here think it is a southern thing. Its not, it is an American thing. I have been told that I don't fit the stereo type to to fly it. America was founded on the belief that big government should be formed to raise taxes to form a Continental army to protect the individual states. The states in turn would govern themselves. I consider myself a North Carolinian first, then an American second. I was born and raised here. I don't want to succeed from the union, in fact I'm glad the south lost the war. God bless the union. I just think that each state can decide whats best for them without the help of Washington DC.
What it mean to me = I have the freedom to express my disgust I feel toward bloated, inefficient, oppressive gov't overstepping the chains that the Constitution placed on them, before they began shredding it.
What it means to elected officials now days = This is a radical extremist who believes the people are in charge, not US! These radicals should be labeled, watched, put on lists and considered enemies of the state! They're only entitled to any rights WE decide they should have.
"When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." - Thomas Jefferson
The Gadsden is the wallpaper on my laptop. I have had to explain the history and meaning of the flag to many a brain-dead liberal that works around me.
They give me some weird looks, and I am sure they have me pegged for some kind of "radical" as a result.
Then again, I saw a pickup truck with a Gadsden sticker in the back window driving around town the other day. did my heart good.
It is a battle flag, suitable for war. It is was an "official" flag of the United States prior to the stars and stripes and deserves all the respect of any other official flag. Of course there can be no mandatory requirement for respecting any US flag and because of the various political connotations the Gadsden flag has (Tea Party, violence, etc.) it gets less respect than most. The whole point is that if you mess with the US you will suffer the consequences.
I flew it for a month after 9-11. I was confident that US.GOV would make the perps pay. To me it meant the transition from peace to a justified war. I haven't been impressed with anything US.GOV related since then.
Please don't take this the wrong way, because I don't mean to vent at you, but this current philosophy of "what it means to me," is the exact problem with the discourse. Words mean things, and the author retains authority. If you don't agree with the meaning of an emblem, then don't use it.
In these days of moral equivalence and shifting sands, if we can't agree on the plain meaning of words, then there can be no meaningful discourse. We see this every day in the "re-interpretation" of the Constitution and the insistence that it is a "living document" dictated by "changing social mores."
These are the hallmarks of the modern liberal/socialist/progressive, not of freedom-loving Americans. The first line of defense of our rights is the First Amendment. If we are intellectually dishonest is our definition of words, how then can we use them effectively? As such, we will always be at a certain disadvantage to those who are not morally bound to a fixed mark. But we will always be able to offer a consistent message in the arena of ideas.
If you desire to understand the meaning in the Gadsden Flag, you need to seek what it is intended to mean, not impart your own arbitrary sentiment. If people are randomly to apply their own meaning, then no opus could ever outlive its author, or, even worse, could never outlive the moment in which the author has the loudest or most compelling voice among many.
In short, with no fixed mark, there can be no rule of law and no civilization.
Just out of curiosity, can anyone link a historical reference to the idea of changing the background color of the Gadsen flag to black for war and red for "no quarter"?
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