How A 'Don't Tread On Me' Cap Became A Federal Case

Forbes ^ | August 10, 2016 | George Leef

[CygnusXI]

Hahaha! However I am sure she would not know that gesture lol.

[CygnusXI]

Ummm... you got a camera on me? lol

[JimRed]

...the server looks at my cap and says “That’s a racist cap!”

She'd have said the same if the cap was red and said "Make America Great Again".

[Doogle]

...good dig Sword

[Soul of the South]

“As someone pointed out on a related thread, they’d better get those slave-owners off the money...”

With respect to currency and coinage I suggest return to the days when lady liberty adorned our coinage and we did not pay tribute to politicians and other dead historical figures on our money. In those days our coins and paper money were works of art and the images were not tied to any political or social agenda.

Even the iconic Indian head image on the late 19th century penny, and iconic Indian head on the early 20th century nickel would be better than the current faux fight over honoring dead white people. It is interesting when we honored Native Americans 100 years ago on our coinage it had nothing to do with making statements about race or social equality and everything to do about honoring our national heritage.

Personally I have no problem with honoring the founding fathers on our money but I don’t want to spend the next five years listening to the rhetoric and ending up with the figures on our coins and paper money representing some progressive idea of social and racial justice. Better to promote the concept “liberty” on which our nation was founded. Certainly feminists should be happy the figure representing liberty would be a female.

How far we’ve digressed in 100 years.

[kearnyirish2]

No let’s make them completely inoffensive - just a number on one side and “USA” on the other...

[Scrambler Bob]

Indian head on the early 20th century nickel
= = =

And on the reverse may be a three-legged buffalo.

Trans before we knew of it.

[Publius]

I would go a lot further than any of the current proposals.

First off, each paper denomination should be a different color, the way Canada does it.

America is much more than dead presidents, and I've always been suspicious of the Progressives’ worship of the imperial presidency. So let's set up some ground rules.

1. Each denomination shall be dedicated to an individual in one specific area of American life.
2. Each individual on a bill shall appear for no more than ten years before he/she is replaced.
3. Each individual on a bill shall have been dead for at least 50 years to determine that person's place in history.

So let’s set up our first non-presidential series.

• $100 bill: dedicated to American military prowess. Ulysses Grant has been on a bill for a long time, so George Patton would be a good choice for ten years. Dwight Eisenhower would fit the Fifty Year Rule by the time Patton’s term is over.
• $50 bill: dedicated to American letters. Mark Twain would be a non-controversial first choice, followed by Ernest Hemingway after ten years.
• $20 bill: dedicated to American women/minorities. If we're going to put Tubman on the bill, let's show her as a guerilla fighter wielding a gun. As a sop to our friends on the Left, Eleanor Roosevelt could follow her.
• $10 bill: dedicated to American arts and music. George Gershwin would be an easy choice, followed by the irascible Charles Ives.
• $5 bill: dedicated to American science and industry. We've had Ben Franklin on a bill for a long time, so Thomas Edison would be a good choice for ten years, followed by George Westinghouse.

For lower denominations, I'd like to follow the example of Canada and use coins for $1 and $2. I can live with the Sacajawea image because no one knows what she looked like, and before we started putting dead presidents on our coins in 1909, we always used female or Indian depictions of Liberty. The image fits both rules.

I have my own ideas about replacing dead presidents on our coins, but I'll save that for another time.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[YogicCowboy]

“We need to turn this on liberals. When someone wears a Che shirt or a Black Lives Matter hat or something with some other left-wing icon, file a complaint. This is the only way to get this to stop, unfortunately.”

We cannot turn it on leftists (I refuse to call them liberals). The fix is in: leftism is based upon hypocrisy - so selective application of the rule of law is inherently necessary to distort and destroy existing culture.

This is exemplified by the obviously false assertion that a “black” cannot be racist in action, while a “white” can only be racist in action. Objective reality is irrelevant to communism.

That is why the Supreme Court can make its ludicrously irrational rulings about things like marriage, and yet be treated by the media as though they are the sage pronouncements of a divine oracle.

We do not have impartial rule of law anymore. The government has declared war on Western Civilization, European Culture, American History, and Biblical Christianity.

Anyone who hates those will be given a pass - or a token wrist slap.

[TBP]

We were able to turn the Independent Counsel law (which was unconstitutional) on them. Turning it on them is the only way it stops.