Posted on 06/27/2015 7:47:00 AM PDT by KC_Lion
And the “Flag Attack” rages on! In Arkansas there is a flag battle, but not the one you’ve been reading about.
The Bradley County Courthouse has flown an historic flag just below our stars and stripes; it features a simple evergreen tree and the phrase “Appeal to Heaven.” The ATH flag has a rich history, being first commissioned by George Washington to fly over Navy schooners during the Revolutionary War. Washington knew the colonies needed God’s intervention as they battled for freedom – they had no recourse but to call on God. The appeal to heaven ultimately granted America freedom. This is our foundation! And the few who disdain this foundation want the innocent but illustrious flag removed.
Special friends, Pastor Dutch and Ceci Sheets, presented me with an Appeal to Heaven flag of my own. It has stirred my heart and will stir millions more once the significance of this flag attack is understood.
The angry opposition to the evergreen-emblazoned bolt of cloth spews from those refusing to acknowledge the truth – that the patriots of old knew America’s hope for freedom was rooted in God. And unlike any other, the idea of “America” would be exceptional in that we would dedicate to God this land overflowing with the blessings of liberty.
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Also, I am not well versed in the rules regarding excerpting Breitbart Articles, if it is not correct please tell me and I will ask that it is.
That is the new American Flag. The washington naval flag.
The flag, featuring a pine tree flag with the motto “An Appeal to God,” or, more usually, “An Appeal to Heaven.” was used originally by a squadron of six cruisers commissioned under George Washington’s authority as commander in chief of the Continental Army in October 1775.
https://appealtoheaven.wordpress.com/about/
“And therefore, though the people cannot be judge, so as to have, by the constitution of that society, any superior power, to determine and give effective sentence in the case; yet they have, by a law antecedent and paramount to all positive laws of men, reserved that ultimate determination to themselves which belongs to all mankind, where there lies no appeal on earth, viz. to judge, whether they have just cause to make their appeal to heaven.”
John Locke, Second Treatise of Civil Government – Sec. 168
stick it in the eye of the greenies and socialist like Washington stuck it in the eye of the British Navy.
I’m currently flying all of my former us stars and stipes flags upside down. soon to dispose of them and fly only the pine tree.
Also, the ladies from our church go to the Media Courthouse and pray displaying this flag each wednesday.
Thank you for posting this here.
R2z
Sorry!
This is an attack on freedom, on honoring accurate history, and is more of the fundamental transformation of America that will render us not only unexceptional, but unrecognizable. But not if we intercede. - Sarah couldn't be more correct!
"Our" Side tends to retreat from every issue!
Many want us to retreat Again
They say it's not the right time. (is it ever?)That we must wait for the right time.
Well, I say this is the right time and we must risk everything, because if we don't.
We've Lost.
We March to Victory, OR We March to Defeat, but we go Forward. Only Forward.
I fly the Washington’s Cruisers flag below my Betsy Ross at least 2/3 of the time (and the Gadsden about 1/3).
I’m planning to get a Stainless Banner for Confederate Memorial Day, Robert E. Lee’s birthday, and any other days I’m feeling particularly ornery, but everywhere is sold out right now.
My ancestors wore the blue suit, and I’ve never lived South of Church Avenue in Brooklyn, but this has to stop.
Watch! Soon the Gadson Flag will be against the law too.
OH! That is coming much sooner rather than later
I wouldn't be surprised. Because if the left cannot make a logical argument against it, they'll fall back to a claim of "microaggression".
And in a way I've got to hand it to the left. That new word of theirs, "microaggression" is very clever. No real evidence is ever needed. It's all about the perceived intentions.
Fight the power!
Yep.
He that controls the language controls the future.
MARK & BUMP - “An Appeal To Heaven”
Beautiful...thanks for posting this history and personal points.
ATH BTTT!
An appeal to heaven with an Ashera tree I cannot fly.
Sarah is correct! Who is with her in the photo, Tod? and one of her daughters or daughter in law?
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