Dead Americans and the Gadsen Flag

http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/jaime-oneill/56398/dead-americans-and-the-gadsen-flag

Dead Americans and the Gadsen Flag
by Jaime O'Neill | June 14, 2014 - 10:02am

There are three houses in my immediate neighborhood that fly the Gadsen flag, that yellow banner with the rattlesnake and the slogan that reads "Don't Tread on Me." Since we elected a black president in 2008, that flag has become popular with people incensed by things that went unquestioned when a thoroughly entitled white guy occupied the White House. It's remarkable how many acts of presidential malfeasance, ineptitude, or usurpations of power were approved of by the very people who are now crying out how tyrannized they are, and how much worse their taxes seem now that the black guy is in office.

Though the Gadsen flag originated as the 13 colonies were moving toward insurrection against British tyranny, it has since been expropriated by the Tea Party, and by other people who are flirting with sedition, spreading fear and hatred against the duly elected leader of the country, and imposing a distorted Fox "News" view of the world on nearly any action the government takes, from expanding health care coverage to the most modest attempts to address our crazy immigration laws, and our even crazier gun laws.

These people are tyrannizing the majority of Americans. That flag has become an alternative flag to the stars and stripes. The yellow flag so many people are now willing to hoist on flag poles has become the symbol for people willing to aim high-powered rifles at men and women who are enforcing the duly enacted laws of the federal government. That snake flag now symbolizes the kind of people willing to shoot cops who are eating pizza, or Wal-Mart shoppers they see as standing in the way of their "revolution" to "take our country back." That flag is a rallying banner for some of the more paranoid people in our heavily armed nation.

So, once again we've seen people dying on our streets, our schools, and in our places of business, their lives sacrificed to the idea of a "well-regulated militia." So those policemen and that good Samaritan in Las Vegas and the two young dead kids up at that Oregon school were brought down by "militia men," I guess, though who was regulating them remains a mystery.


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