Fringe On The U.S. Flag What Does It Mean? Admiralty Courts in Colorado?

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[Ethyl]

There was some speculation during the klintoon administration debacle, that he would try to do something really out of line, using the Admiralty Law, and the gold trimmed flag, because Admiralty Law was one of his specialties when he was a Law Professor???? He did do some stupid things, but I don't think Admiralty Law had any thing to do with it, it was some other law of nature or something?

[Martin Tell]

...the old "We are living under martial law because the US flag has fringe" conspiracy theory has bobbed to the surface again.

I can almost hear Agent Maxwell Smart saying that.

[Doctor Stochastic]

It's left over from a surrey top.

[Wallace T.]

What is the origin of this particular conspiracy theory? It seemed to crop up in the 1980s in Posse Comitatus circles and ramped up in the first Clinton administration along with the black helicopters and the Red Chinese armies massing in Mexico theories. But the other two conspiracy theories can be explained.There were actually "black" (really dark olive) helicopters used by the Army in the 1990s. Foreign invaders infiltrating into Mexico is an old scare story, perhaps left over from the Civil War, when the French under Napoleon III took advantage the turmoil in the U.S. to conquer our southern neighbor. During World War I, rumors abounded that the Kaiser was massing the Wehrmacht in Sonora and Chihuahua.

However, the origins of the "gold fringe" conspiracy theory are unknown to me.

[Pharmboy]

Thanks...great site.

My reason for this post is that I went to my 12 y/o's Christmas (no, sorry), er Holiday (nope, not that either) uhh...Winter Concert (yeah, that's it) at her middle school last night and there was a fringed flag there.

[inkling]

When gold fringes appear on flags in a given location, it's a signal to the municipality to pump extra fluoride into the water supply. Before you know it, citizens' precious bodily fluids are sapped and the Reds are that much closer to world domination.

[Denver Ditdat]

A while back there was a FReeper named Michael Rivero who had lots and lots to say about Admiralty Flags, among other things.

Rivero - now there's a blast from the past. He was claiming that the government orchestrated the events of 9/11/2001 even before the second tower fell in NYC. That was his last day on FR.

There's a fascinating case study and subsequent novelized adaption waiting in Rivero for some enterprising psychoanalyst.

[Pharmboy]

Oh I remember him--got into it real good with Michael a few times on these boards.

[Army Air Corps]

LOL! Now where DID I leave that shoe phone?

[Cultural Jihad]

This whole subject is the perview of militia nutcases. It gets discussed at length by people who had traumatic toilet training episodes.

[ChefKeith]

the kook stigma that "grassy knoll" does.

So does this mean that you believe in the "majic bullet" theory?

[Arkinsaw]

This is kind of silly, since if there were a conspiracy of judges and others they would really have no need to advertise the fact with a gold fringed flag.

The concept here is that, if you take away the gold-fringed flag, the conspirators can no longer commit the conspiracy because it wouldn't be legal.

Conspirators who are conscientious enough only to commit their conspiracy if they have the proper fringe on the flag?

"Dang Judge Roy, we will have to stop conducting unconstitutional activities because our flag ain't the right one! Durn."

That's sort of crazy.

[Army Air Corps]

Well said!

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[rogue yam]

Crazy for the red blue and white
Crazy for the red blue and white

You look at me
What do you see
Crazy for the white red and blue
Crazy for the white red and blue

Cause I look different
You think I'm subversive
Crazy for the blue white and red
Crazy for the blue white and red

My heart beats true
For the red white and blue
Crazy for the blue white and red
Crazy for the blue white and red
And yellow fringe
Crazy for the blue white red and yellow

[Rytwyng]

If there were such a conspiracy, surely some honest judge would have gone public by now. Roy Moore comes to mind.

[Rytwyng]

If there were such a conspiracy, surely some honest judge would have gone public by now. Roy Moore comes to mind.

[stainlessbanner]

My desk set of flags includes Old Glory, Bonnie Blue, Naval Jack, and the Stainlessbanner (of course). Each have gold fringe.....it's just purty - no conspiracy.

[Strategerist]

This is not THE oddest conspiracy theory, but it does rank fairly high on the scale.

I must confess to not having heard this one before, which surprises me, as I try to keep track of them.

This may compete with "Chemtrails" as the DUMBEST conspiracy theory though.

[Cultural Jihad]

Thanks for posting this.