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To: ThinkLikeWaterAndReeds

"That snake on the flag you wave is not a copperhead but a rattlesnake, indigenous only to the United States. The flag was flown on the first battleship of the continental congress as the Marine Corps flag. I presently fly a 3' x 5' version of that flag on my truck."

WELL ... NO SH*T! I already knew that the snake was a rattlesnake; and the flag was Gen. Gadsden's own creation that was flown over (read carefully here) Charleston, South Carolina during the Revolutionary War. But the copperhead is another snake that is indigenous to North America, and those who knew the truth of Southern seccession and sympathized with the South, but lived in Maryland or other "free" States were called that. That is my flag as an American, and my flag as a Confederate. I fly what I choose to, and believe what I choose to, and normally I search for the truth to believe and follow. Not what canned version is handed to me by revisionist historians with some modern socialist agenda to destroy what the Founding Fathers gave me. I've given 19 years of my life in defense of this Country and its freedoms, and I'll not have some pinhead, new age, socialist, PC thinking, big mouth telling me what is right, and correct to believe because the State says so!" With liberty you will have people that get offended, but they have the right not to look at a Confederate Flag, or the right to believe what they want. They don't have the right to try to force me to accept their brand of BULLSH*T!

This country was founded on individual liberty, and the rights of man! These are the two shining star ideals of liberty, and the cornerstone of them is the Second Amendment.

71 posted on 12/16/2001 8:36:50 AM PST by Colt .45
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To: Colt .45
I am a Copperhead then.
81 posted on 12/16/2001 10:20:44 AM PST by rwfromkansas
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To: Colt .45
"This country was founded on individual liberty, and the rights of man!"

Too bad the Confederacy didn't believe that.

Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery -- subordination to the superior race -- is his natural and normal condition -- Alexander Stephens,1861

143 posted on 12/17/2001 6:36:28 PM PST by the_rightside
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