Funny, how Tweety refused to notice when WE hoisted the Gadsden Flag to protest Bush's corrupt

[blm]

reign against this nation's constitution and, especially, his illegal invasion of Iraq.

Remember how many times WE called attention to the meaning of the Gadsden Flag, and its ANTI-IMPERIALISM symbolism? Hundreds of times.

Remember how many M$M talking aheads bothered to mention our ACCURATE use of the Flag? ZERO!

I'm not letting Chris Matthews GIVE this nation's first flag to the the Dumbass Teabaggers who DISTORT its meaning thanks to ignorant mediawhores like Matthews.


The flag is a UNIFIER against imperialism and against imperialistic agenda of those considered the ruling class. It is not meant to divide. All colors, all creeds.


This is one of MANY posts on DU that referenced the Gadsden appropriately during Bush's dictatorship:
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blm (1000+ posts) Tue Dec-20-05 01:59 PM

Send Bush message ala Ben Franklin: DON'T TREAD ON ME = NO KING GEORGE

The easiest symbolic movement we can do as a nation and from our own homes is to raise up the original flag of this country in its rebellion against King George - the Gadsden flag - DON'T TREAD ON ME.


This was our founders' big FUCK YOU KING GEORGE - let it be ours.

You can get it at any flag store, or through several flag sites on the internet.
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Ben Franklin would approve.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgWTM4TN_24

Don't Tread on Me

In some old dusty attic
Undisturbed for many years
There lies a tattered banner
That is stained with blood and tears
By men who knew that freedom
Must be fought for by the free
And died to save a ragged flag
That said Don't Tread on Me

Don't Tread on Me
I'm a rattlesnake with
Diamonds down my back
When other men retreat
That's just the time that I attack
Because a dream that's worth defending
Is a dream that's bound to be
A ragged flag that said
Don't Tread on Me

Two hundred years of glory
And the glory's just begun
We may have lost some battles
But these colors never run
We drew the line at Valley Forge
We held at Bunker Hill
The cannon smoke is lifting
I can see that banner still

Don't Tread on me
I'm a mountain lion
And courage is my name
I tamed a wild country
But I'm wild just the same
And from that rocky Boston harbor
To the California Sea
A ragged flag that said
Don't Tread on Me

This nation isn't what we've done
It's what we've got to do
Remember that United States
Can only start with you
We better be recalling
What this country's all about
And rally round that ragged flag
And hear the people shout
Don't Tread on Me
I'm a grizzly bear
That's not afraid to bite
I don't look for trouble
But when trouble comes I fight
Because my daddy taught me freedom
Has no lifetime guarantee
A ragged flag that said
Don't Tread on Me

The winds of change are blowing
And they're sure to shake this land
We stood all we can take
And now it's time to take a stand
Let's tell the men who make the laws
In Washington D.C.
Unfurl again
That ragged flag that said
Don't Tread on Me

Don't Tread on me
I'm an eagle
Who is clawing at the sky
I want that banner waving up
Where eagles dare to fly
And blazing in the sunlight
So that friend and foe can see
A ragged flag that said
Don't Tread on Me

Don't Tread on us
We're Americans
And we were born to lead
Our skin is every color
And our faith is every creed
We are 300 million people
But on one thing we agree
A ragged flag that said
Don't Tread on Me

Michael O'Donoghue
© 1983 Least Loved Music, BMI


Don't let them pervert Ben Franklin's legacy to ALL of us.

[SpiralHawk]

1. "Smirk." - Tweety (R - Corporate Position Assumer)

[blm]

2. so many of us flew these flags since 2001 and marched with them...network news refused to make note

of why WE would use the flag.

[Ikonoklast]

3. It's the avatar I brought with me to DU.

The idiots that are using it as a symbol of their disaffection with the Federal government are completely ignorant of the history of this flag.

They are clueless in all things, even this.

[blm]

5. a number of DUers use the Gadsden flag avatar...corpmedia won't even TOUCH the left's legitimate use

of the anti-imperialism symbolism.

[Ikonoklast]

8. Because they just...don't...get it.

Of course, if you ask any Teabagger about the historical signigance of the very flag he's carrying, the answer is usually quite funny.

[blm]

9. I think corpmedia DID get it but knew they aren't allowed to report on those inconvenient facts

about the left that would harm Bush's carefully crafted image.

[louis-t]

4. But we didn't fly it while threatening assassination.

[blm]

12. or as an obstacle to working class getting access to health care...Ben's spinning for sure

at the RW distortions.

[Carolina]

6. K&R K&R K&R K&R K&R!!!

Tweety is such an ass

[malaise]

7. I'd like to give him the benefit of the doubt

because I don't expect him to show one ounce of sympathy for the teabaggers, but he'll first have to explain why he has allowed that clip with the lunatic calling Obama a liar to promote his special.

[blm]

13. I understand, but, when WE were flying it he didn't produce even ONE segment about why we were

protesting Bush using the flag's symbolism ACCURATELY. For the RW he can't talk about their reasons enough, and that repetition matters.

[malaise]

14. They didn't even cover an anti-war protest

or a Congressional hearing - liberal media my ass.

[proud patriot]

10. indeed

x( I still have my gadsden rattlesnake magnet on my car along with my other stickers

[blm]

11. yep.....how do you like the distorted use?

and I know you know exactly what I'm talking about.

you can PM me

[proud patriot]

17. it disgusts me

[WCGreen]

15. Well, they have guns, I guess that is the difference...

[blm]

16. and all we had was the truth and hundreds of thousands of protestors...

and millions of protestors in some cities.