Navy SEALs ordered to remove ‘don’t tread on me’ Navy Jack from uniforms

Navy SEALs ordered to remove ‘don’t tread on me’ Navy Jack from uniforms 10:44 AM 11/01/2013 Carl Higbie Author, 'Battle on the Home Front'

The Navy Jack is the ‘don’t tread on me’ flag, one that has earned a revered place in America’s naval history and a beloved place in sailor’s hearts, through its use for over two centuries. This symbol of America’s naval ferocity has spanned our country’s entire existence, flying from the masts of the Continental Navy during the war of independence, to today’s War on Terror. In fact, an amendment to the Navy code called SECNAV Instruction 10520.6 clearly states that as of 31 May 2002 all ships are to fly the flag throughout the duration of the War on Terror.

So why would ranking SEAL commanders ban the historical symbol? Is the proverbial top bass banning the flag? Is President Obama?

Clearly the administration and sycophant “top brass” officers have degraded America’s military prestige; from hand-tying rules of engagement, to uniform regulations that make our military allegedly more compatible with foreign forces, to the banning of an awe-inspiring flag that traces its roots to the first U.S. Navy. We have a civilian-led military, but why should our ranking commanders be complicit in the administration’s war on it? Why don’t they stand up to Obama and his leftist cronies?

I thought that NAVY SEALS were supposed to be bad@#$. Anyways, what’s there to be offensive with the guys who are out there to both drive an intimidating point as well as perform among the most elite operations in the U.S. military? I mean these flags don’t even have babes on them for crying out loud, just telling a message to some Taliban/terrorist POS that you don’t mess with U.S. Special Forces. It just seems that everyone takes offense to things that actually might not even be that bad for the purpose of actually being a warrior.

Has anyone actually bothered seeing how we portrayed our enemies of war, I mean King Kong was based off a WWI propaganda poster, if anything else! If anything, taking the intimidation factor out of the military is a bad idea. You want more than a fighting force, you want a force that projects how dangerous and capable they are. I mean seriously, did Obama even bother playing sports?

But I thought grandma and granpda Durham were CIA.../s
One thought though that just doesn’t ring right to me though. How would the CIA have allowed the Durhams to be card carrying Communist Party members though unless there job was to infiltrate them. They are hardly the type that would have been used back then IMO. This part of the Obama legacy has always been a little shady to me. And then to top it off his mother and stepfather, Soteo were also supposed to be CIA. Hard to know what is true or not...maybe all fiction but who knows?

But I thought grandma and grandpa Durham were CIA.../s
One thought though that just doesn’t ring right to me though. How would the CIA have allowed the Durhams to be card carrying Communist Party members though unless their job was to infiltrate them? They are hardly the type that would have been used back then IMO. This part of the Obama legacy has always been a little shady to me. And then to top it off his mother and stepfather, Sotero were also supposed to be CIA. Hard to know what is true or not...maybe all fiction but who knows?

He seems to be fiction. That is sure.

Two Hundred Thirty days ago today.

Nov 02, 1783, General George Washington gave his "Farewell Address to the Army" near Princeton, NJ.

"The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissensions, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.

"The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.

Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight), the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.

It serves always to distract the public councils, and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another; foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access to government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.

There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This, within certain limits, is probably true; and in governments of a monarchical cast patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favour, upon the spirit of party: but, in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume."

George Washington, George Washington's Farewell Address

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/George.Washington.Quote.B6FC

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