Lamh Foistenach Abu!
Posted on 03/30/2010 4:19:10 PM PDT by onyx
On Monday's O'Reilly Factor on Fox News, NPR news analyst Juan Williams furthered the left's talking point about the tea party's supposed connection to militias, and even went so far to claim that the Gadsden or "Don't Tread on Me" flags used by the conservative grassroots movement is "the same imagery that was on Timothy McVeigh"
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Hey there, my good friend!
You’re so right about that and I think Juan knew ahead of time precisely what he wanted to say!
Invoking McVeigh did it for me. That was completely out of line and completely uncalled for.
Juan Williams is a radical leftist who is now slavishly defending every action of 0bama. It’s a toxic mix of political blindness and racial solidarity in action. Quite disgusting to witness. The guy has no credibility in my estimation. Now I have to get one of those damned flags.
I've noticed that they've significally upped the number of socialists and liberals lately. Geraldo is a prime example, but I recall seeing that clown Colmes as well lately.
I don't mind liberals, I hate liars...which tends to have a high degree of overlap.
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
There are two houses on my street flying the yellow Gadsden.
Bob Beckel was the tipping point with me regarding Hannity.
I think Hannity feels some personal need to keep that bloated, smug liberal talking point in work.
” B.A. in philosophy in 1976”
That’s the problem. The government and the media are run by philosophy, political science, and journalism majors who have no real skills and no real job experience.
They are making the critical decisions that the rest of us must live with, while they live in privileged splendor.
Poor Juan....sucks to be stupid.
I agree with your every word and I am going to get a flag too!
Enjoy tomorrow. :)
“THE GADSDEN FLAG: In January 1776 Col. Christopher Gadsden left Philadelphia,where he had served as a delegate to the Continental Congress and a member ofthe Marine Committee, to return to South Carolina. He brought with him to Charleston the flag he had designed for use by the commander in chief of the American Navy, whose vessels were assembled in the frozen Delaware River. His presentation of this flag to the Provincial Congress of South Carolina on February 9, 1776, is recorded in the congressional journals:
Col. Gadsden presented to the Congress an elegant standard, such as is to be used by the commander in chief of the American navy; being a yellow field, with a lively representation of a rattle-snake in the middle, in the attitude of going to strike, and these words underneath, “Don’t Tread on Me!”
This flag was that day ordered preserved in the hall of the South Carolina Provincial Congress.
And this note from the maintainer of a web site on American flags:
Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 23:36:58 -0500
From: Duane Streufert
Subject: Re: Don’t Tread On Me Flag
Dear David,
Eventually I will have info on the “Gadsden Flag” on the Page, but for now I’ll quote from a book I have on hand. (This flag is of a yellow background with a coiled rattlesnake and the words “Don’t Tread On Me” beneath it.) Less well known is the 1st Navy Jack, having 13 red and white stripes witha rippling form of a rattlesnake stretched across them, and the words ‘Don’t Tread On Me’ below.
“The American Revolutionary period was a time of intense but controlled individualism - when self-directing responsible individuals again and again decided for themselves what they should do, and did it- without needing anyone else to give them an assignment or supervise them in carrying it out.
Such a person was the patriot Colonel Christopher Gadsden of South Carolina. He had seen and liked a bright yellow banner with a hissing, coiled rattlesnake rising up in the center, and beneath the serpent thesame words that appeared on the Striped Rattlesnake Flag - Don’t Tread On Me.
Colonel Gadsden made a copy of this flag and submitted the design to the Provincial Congress in South Carolina. Commodore Esek Hopkins, commander of the new Continental fleet, carried a similar flag in February, 1776, whenhis ships put to sea for the first time.
Hopkins captured large stores of British cannon and military supplies in the Bahamas. His cruise marked the salt-water baptism of the American Navy, and it saw the first landing of the Corps of Marines, on whose drums the Gadsden symbol was painted.
Patriotically Yours,
Duane Streufert
Put one on my kayak too.
Years of Ft. Bragg, years of riding, years of raisin' hell, and I never got a tat. But like you, I am asking around to find the best shop in town to get a Gadsden.
Anything to take the attention off the HC bill. If you through enough mud against the wall, eventually something will stick!
Juan Williams is Afro-Panamanian.
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