{"id":28939,"date":"2016-08-05T09:48:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T13:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=28939"},"modified":"2016-08-05T09:48:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T13:48:03","slug":"losing-our-history-one-flag-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=28939","title":{"rendered":"Losing Our History–One Flag At A Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the origin of the Gadsden Flag according to the Gadsden Flag History website<\/a>:<\/p>\n

By 1775, the snake symbol<\/a> wasn’t just being printed in newspapers. It was appearing all over the colonies: on uniform buttons, on paper money, and of course, on banners and flags.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The snake symbol morphed quite a bit during its rapid, widespread adoption. It wasn’t cut up into pieces anymore. And it was usually shown as an American<\/a> timber rattlesnake, not a generic serpent.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We don’t know for certain where, when, or by whom the familiar coiled rattlesnake was first used with the warning “Don’t Tread on Me.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

We do know when it first entered the history books.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the fall of 1775, the British were occupying Boston and the young Continental Army was holed up in Cambridge, woefully short on arms and ammunition. At the Battle of Bunker Hill<\/a>, Washington’s troops had been so low on gunpowder that they were ordered “not to fire until you see the whites of their eyes.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

In October, a merchant ship called The Black Prince returned to Philadelphia<\/a> from a voyage to England. On board were private letters to the Second Continental Congress<\/a> that informed them that the British government<\/a> was sending two ships to America loaded with arms and gunpowder for the British troops<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Congress decided that General Washington needed those arms more<\/strong> than the British. A plan was hatched to capture the cargo ships. They authorized the creation of a Continental Navy<\/a>, starting with four ships. The frigate that carried the information from England, the Black Prince, was one of the four. It was purchased, converted to a man-of-war, and renamed the Alfred.<\/strong><\/p>\n

To accompany the Navy<\/a> on their first mission, Congress also authorized the mustering of five companies of Marines<\/a>. The Alfred and its sailors and marines went on to achieve some of the most notable victories of the American Revolution<\/a>. But that’s not the story we’re interested in here.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What’s particularly interesting for us is that some of the Marines that enlisted that month in Philadelphia were carrying drums painted yellow, emblazoned with a fierce rattlesnake, coiled and ready to strike, with thirteen rattles, and sporting the motto “Don’t Tread on Me.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is a symbol of the fight for freedom in the American Revolution.<\/p>\n

Yesterday The Daily Wire<\/a> posted the following story:<\/p>\n

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission<\/a> has now taken the position that displaying the Gadsden flag (AKA the \u201cDon\u2019t Tread on Me\u201d flag) constitutes racial harassment.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As UCLA Professor Eugene Volokh points out in The Washington Post<\/a><\/em>, the EEOC decided the case of Shelton D. [pseudonym] v. Brennan<\/em> two months ago: The complainant, “Sheldon D,”\u00a0argued that as a black man he had been racially discriminated against because a coworker wore a hat with the Gadsen flag<\/a> emblazoned on it to work.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is nothing racial about the Gadsden Flag. If I feel discriminated against because a coworker who wears pink socks, can I file a complaint? This is ridiculous. We are losing our freedom. You can no longer purchase Confederate flags on Amazon, but you can still purchase an ISIS flag on Amazon. This is how upside down America has become. Hopefully this ruling can be appealed and the idiots who made the ruling removed from their positions. It’s time for some common sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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