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WTNH.COM ^ | 4/8/2010 | Puppage

Posted on 04/08/2010 11:48:57 AM PDT by Puppage

Should the Tea Party's adopted flag fly at the State Capitol?


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1 posted on 04/08/2010 11:48:57 AM PDT by Puppage
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They don’t say or show what the adopted flag is, are we supposed to know? Or do they revaeal that at the end :)


2 posted on 04/08/2010 11:50:44 AM PDT by Whoa
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To: Whoa
I think they are referring to this one.


3 posted on 04/08/2010 11:52:18 AM PDT by RedMDer (0 = one D Ten T : Recycle Congress in 2010, 2012... Forward with Confidence! Forward!)
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To: Whoa

4 posted on 04/08/2010 11:52:31 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
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To: Whoa
From a story on that website, the flag in question is the Gadsen Flag:


5 posted on 04/08/2010 11:53:24 AM PDT by Sopater (...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. - 2 COR 3:17b)
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To: Doogle
They can't take this flag... RevolutionLadies
6 posted on 04/08/2010 11:54:49 AM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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To: Puppage
Oh, that's interesting! I saw a poll on the same topic, presumably from another TV station in Conn., and they asked if the Gadsden flag should fly over the Capital. They didn't refer to it as the TEA party flag! And, it's ISN'T the TEA party flag! It's the Gadsden flag! The Second American Revolution flag and the American flag are just as predominate at TEA party rallies!

The question was an overwhelming "YES" when it was refered to as the Gadsden flag, the opposite of the results in this poll.

7 posted on 04/08/2010 11:56:24 AM PDT by FrdmLvr ( 0bama: Our first AINO president)
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To: Puppage

Poll needs our help. Good guys getting stomped. Good news: only about 1800 have responded.


8 posted on 04/08/2010 11:56:53 AM PDT by NaughtiusMaximus (Don't waste your vote on a 'Rat wearing an Elephant suit.)
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To: Puppage
NEEDS FREEPIN'!

Should the Tea Party's adopted flag fly at the State Capitol? Yes 16% No 83% Total Votes: 1,535

9 posted on 04/08/2010 11:59:06 AM PDT by FrdmLvr ( 0bama: Our first AINO president)
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To: NaughtiusMaximus

I voted and it said 1544 had voted. Looks like it’s counting backwards.


10 posted on 04/08/2010 11:59:51 AM PDT by chuckles
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To: Monterrosa-24

nope


11 posted on 04/08/2010 12:04:06 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
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To: Puppage

To bad Conn residents don’t even know the history of the flag.:
The Gadsden Flag’s Namesake

Christopher Gadsden & Esek Hopkins
Although Benjamin Franklin helped create the American rattlesnake symbol, his name isn’t generally attached to the rattlesnake flag. The yellow “don’t tread on me” standard is usually called a Gadsden flag, for Colonel Christopher Gadsden, or less commonly, a Hopkins flag, for Commodore Esek Hopkins.

These two individuals were mulling about Philadelphia at the same time, making important contributions to American history and the history of the rattlesnake flag.

Christopher Gadsden was an American patriot if ever there was one. He led Sons of Liberty in South Carolina starting in 1765, and was later made a colonel in the Continental Army. In 1775 he was in Philadelphia representing his home state in the Continental Congress. He was also one of three members of the Marine Committee who decided to outfit and man the Alfred and its sister ships.

Commodore Hopkins, portrait by C. Corbutt, 1776. Click here for a larger image. The Don’t Tread on Me flag in this image appears to be a First Navy Jack. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Gadsden and Congress chose a Rhode Island man, Esek Hopkins, as the commander-in-chief of the Navy. The flag that Hopkins used as his personal standard on the Alfred is the one we would now recognize. It’s likely that John Paul Jones, as the first lieutenant on the Alfred, ran it up the gaff.

It’s generally accepted that Hopkins’ flag was presented to him by Christopher Gadsden, who felt it was especially important for the commodore to have a distinctive personal standard. Gadsden also presented a copy of this flag to his state legislature in Charleston. This is recorded in the South Carolina 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!”

http://www.gadsden.info/Christopher.html


12 posted on 04/08/2010 12:06:47 PM PDT by Marty62 (marty60)
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“Democratic state Rep. Michael Lawlor of East Haven is questioning whether the Capitol is an appropriate place to fly what he calls a politically partisan flag.”

Ofcourse a Dumocrat is historically DUMB.


13 posted on 04/08/2010 12:09:12 PM PDT by Marty62 (marty60)
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To: Marty62
"Politically partisan"? No more partisan than this one:



Or this one:


Naval Jack of the United States
14 posted on 04/08/2010 12:13:40 PM PDT by Sopater (...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. - 2 COR 3:17b)
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To: Sopater

Yep!


15 posted on 04/08/2010 12:15:28 PM PDT by Marty62 (marty60)
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To: Puppage
The Gadsden Flag flew in battle during The Revolution, it should fly whenever, and wherever Free Men gather!
16 posted on 04/08/2010 12:26:07 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (The 0bama regime represents an "Clear and Present Danger" to the US - Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: Puppage

The Tea Party adopted a flag? I think not. There is no Tea Party. There are tea party events with a wide range of individuals attending, but there is no Tea Party.


17 posted on 04/08/2010 12:26:50 PM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: Puppage

As of Now.

Should the Tea Party’s adopted flag fly at the State Capitol?

Yes
28%

No
71%

Total Votes: 2,242


18 posted on 04/08/2010 4:31:31 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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