Saturday, May 29, 2010
Flag of Rebellion deemed "offensive"
No, not the Confederate Battleflag, but the Gadsden Flag! From MyEastBay of Rhode Island:
The Warren Fire Department drew fire Friday morning when members raised one of the nation’s oldest — but these days, controversial — flags from one of three flagpoles they maintain at the Warren Town Common.
Their flying of the Gadsden Flag, a Revolutionary War-era flag depicting a coiled rattlesnake with the slogan “Don’t Tread On Me” below it, angered some residents because though it was originally created to protest the British government prior to and during the American Revolution, it has become a symbol to some of the American Tea Party movement. That conservative movement questions many of the policies, particularly fiscal, of the federal government.
The least whimper of opposition to the central government will be denounced as offensive, backward, racist, etc.
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