Don't tread on me! - Replacing old Glory?

[Goose and Fig]

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The thing that bothers me- is when it's small like that on your avatar it looks like a pile of poop. Just sayin

 

[easttxchick]

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The thing that bothers me- is when it's small like that on your avatar it looks like a pile of poop. Just sayin

Wow...

 

[Wifezilla]

 

[OccamsTazer]

I'm going to try to articulate why I'm club eyeroll. Other eyerollers, help me out if I'm way off.

The annoying thing about this flag is its association with the Tea Party and the radical right in general. The annoyance is not about a difference of opinion, and it's not about "freedom, self reliance, adherence to the constitution".
Thing is, *everybody* supports those things (we'll leave out fringe groups for now), we all just have different ideas about what supporting them means.
This flag tends to go along with a mentality of "I love my country more than you, neener neener neener!" that is more than a little juvenile and downright annoying. Hence the eyeroll.

 

[Birch Run Farm]

So how is 'Taxed Enough Already' radical???

 

[Goose and Fig]

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Yeah I get ya- and the teabaggers don't have any more right to that flag than the rest of America. It's part of the nation's history.

Timothy McVeigh (sp?) wore a t-shirt with a quote from Thomas Jefferson when he blew up the federal building. Doesn't make him a good guy. Or any more "American"

 

[yotetrapper]

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Not at all. Following the constitution should never entail having "different ideas about what supporting it means". It's written there, in black and white, and leaves nothing to interpretation. Either you support following the constitution as it was written, or you do not. On this, there is no "gray". You dont support the right to free speech, but oppose the right to gun ownership. Even if you do oppose one of the rights listed in the constitution, you would need to have an amendment passed by the public, not the back door politics which are currently tearing the constitution to shreds. So, you support following the constitution to the letter, and changing it in the ONLY way prescribed, or you do not, simple as that. And nearly every person that DOES support the constitution as written and intended, would certainly not be offended by the flag, or the tea parties principles.

 

[PaulaJoAnne]

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Not at all. Following the constitution should never entail having "different ideas about what supporting it means". It's written there, in black and white, and leaves nothing to interpretation. Either you support following the constitution as it was written, or you do not. On this, there is no "gray". You dont support the right to free speech, but oppose the right to gun ownership. Even if you do oppose one of the rights listed in the constitution, you would need to have an amendment passed by the public, not the back door politics which are currently tearing the constitution to shreds. So, you support following the constitution to the letter, and changing it in the ONLY way prescribed, or you do not, simple as that. And nearly every person that DOES support the constitution as written and intended, would certainly not be offended by the flag, or the tea parties principles.

Amen!!!

 

[PaulaJoAnne]

off to find a source for one of these flags.......................

 

[OccamsTazer]

I never brought up supporting or not supporting the constitution. We all do. My point is that...
Actually, nevermind. I'm peein' in the wind here.