[MaxistheBest]

"I’ll just start here by reminding you of something I’ve been warning everyone about for the past two years: You didn’t really think they were going to stop with the Confederate Battle Flag did you?"

[unixfox]

But the gay flag is perfectly ok.

[grey_whiskers]

Let's modify the flag.

Show the dismembered snake, and use the motto: ex uno plures

(Divide and conquer the disparate splinter groups of disaffected hate mongers which comprise the Dem coalition.)

[FlingWingFlyer]

“African Americans” are a bunch of whining crybabies. Although I wear the First Navy Jack “Don’t Tread On Me” flag on my hat, I dare some bastard to try to punish me for wearing it or dare them to try to force me to remove it. I’m still an American and haven’t fallen into one of the various tribes yet. I plan on continuing to remain an American.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Displaying your “Don’t Tread on Me” flag may now be a punishable offense

Once, this was "The Land of the Free". Sadly, not anymore.

[Paladin2]

The complainer is a snake? Likes to walk all over people?

[Vermont Lt]

I have worn one of those for years. I got it at Quincy market in Boston.

No one has ever mentioned. I think people are really over sensitive.

I guess we shouldn’t read the bible because there are slaves in it.

[gdzla]

[IMG]http://i67.tinypic.com/29c8g91.jpg[/IMG]

[GOPJ]

Right wing groups should start carrying NAACP flags. By the logic of the ‘oh so silly’ that would make the “NAACP” a racist term... We’re dealing with idiots here... this could be fun.

[Huntress]

By this logic, I guess one dollar bills and quarters are racist because George Washington owned slaves.

[PLMerite]

I just ordered this one:

from Gadsden & Culpeper.

http://www.gadsdenandculpeper.com/

[Political Junkie Too]

Complainant stated that he found the cap to be racially offensive to African Americans because the flag was designed by Christopher Gadsden, a “slave trader & owner of slaves.”

The Declaration of Independence was written by an "owner of slaves." Is the American founding offensive to African Americans too?

-PJ

[Logical me]

Soon you won’t be able to use your own toilet without a toilet pass. America is turning in a real crap pile of stupidity.

[wjcsux]

Crazy Libs will never run out of things that offend them. I am wondering how long it will take them to target the UK’s Union Jack.

[dragonblustar]

Displaying your “Don’t Tread on Me” flag may now be a punishable offense

Fascism.

[joshua c]

limiting speech because someone is offended is like saying a politician can only be elected if he receives 100% of the vote.

[NonValueAdded]

I have an ancestor who served in the Continental Navy thus the First Naval Jack is fair game for me. The Betsey Ross flies on my flagpole for the same reason. I plan to alternate.

The yellow Gadsden "rattlesnake" Flag was used by the Continental Marines. It is possible I have an ancestral reason for flying that one as well.

Aside from the fact that I have a First Amendment Right to fly whatever I damn well please!!!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

They can try but the fact of the matter is that the Gadsden flag was the very first flag used by the United States Marine Corp.

If challenged, that's all that needs to be said. You're honoring and commemorating the USMC. Period.

[DJ Taylor]

Anyone who didn’t see this one coming just wasn’t looking. In our country’s recent history we’ve celebrated diversity in our population as if it were a good thing. However, one look at world history will show you that no country with a diverse population of different races, languages, and religion has long survived.

Countries don’t naturally form with a diverse population, and when in the past they’ve occurred it’s usually been as a result of armed conquest. These unnaturally formed countries have either melded together into a single population made up of one mixed race with one language and one religion or they’ve come apart, and they’ve usually come apart with extreme violence. The longer these diverse populations were forced to coexist with one another without mixing and becoming one, the more the hatred grew among them and the more violently they broke apart, but break apart they did, or genocide has settled the issue once and for all.

[Joe Brower]

As those who've known me for a while can attest, I've been flying the Gadsden for over 20 years. I'm not going to stop now. I will not comply.

[Joe Brower]

Welcome to 2016, where our own government is actively, slowly, piece by piece, deliberately erasing our nation's history.

Ask yourself: Why would that be? Can you think of a good reason? Answer carefully: There will be a test later.

Hey, why not go for the Gold and just declare the American Flag 'racist'? We once allowed slavery, you know... Or you should know, since we're getting reminded of it every day, although it's been over for a century and a half now.

No matter -- ban it! Ban it NOW! Let's cut to the chase. And if the picture below pisses you off, it should.