How Many Of You Hung a Flag(or flags) at Your House This 4th???????

Today I have the Betsy Ross flying over my front porch.

As a vexillomaniac, I fly a flag everyday. I have about a score of them, which I rotate. Generally, I put up the Buckeye Swallowtail (flag of Ohio) every other week, and alternate that with various American Flags (Culpeper, Gadsden, John Paul Jones, Grand Union, Betsy Ross, Bonnie Blue, Stars and Bars, Confederate Cross, and Nifty Fifty.) On various significant dates I'll also hoist the Soviet Banner (for Sputnik, Muttnik, Yuri Gagarin, and Valentina Tereshkova), the Maple Rag (the First of July -- anniversary of Canadian Confederation), Le Pennant Francais (Bastille Day), Bandero de Mexico (9/16 and 5/5), Hawaiian National (8/21), and the Service Flag of the USAF (when I feel like it.) I'm contemplating getting an Israeli flag to fly on the anniversaries of the bombing of the King David Hotel and the attack on the USS Liberty, and also a Nazi flag to commemorate the first successful launch of the V2.

My neighbors still don't know quite where I'm coming from.

Sic Semper Tyrannis!
Professor Bernardo de la Paz
"Letting my freak flag fly."

As far as I'm concerned, the flag is meaningless. I like the Betsy Ross flag, the Gadsen flag, the Texas Revolution's "Come and Take It" flag, but flags don't amount to a hill of beans; they are false, graven images.

The real symbols of our freedom are the Constitution, particularly the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence.

SUPPORT OUR FOUNDERS' AMERICA
Support the Constitution of the United States

We fly the 13-star flag.

Also remember to fly your state flags, they're important too. A state is not a mere political subdivision, it means something in the federal system.

As for what I would do, is what I am doing which is joining my local Militia unit.

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June 29, 2002

This July 4th, Hoist the Flag of Liberty
by Wally Conger, wconger@aol.com

Prolonged exposure to John Ashcroft on CNN last week prompted me to do a little late spring cleaning. My kind of "cleaning" occurs when I’m on a mission to find a specific something in the house. One time, it was an old Velvet Underground CD I had to find right away because I’d just heard "Sweet Jane" on a radio outside Starbucks. And I was sure it was in one of 23 sealed boxes stored in my garage since we moved three years ago.

This latest search was for my Gadsden flag. That’s the brilliant yellow flag from the American Revolution with the coiled rattler on it, the words "Don’t Tread On Me" stitched at the bottom. Truthfully, nothing’s actually stitched on my flag. The snake and words are screened onto flammable polyester. I paid seven bucks for it at a gun show in 1995, shortly after Clinton began reaping political profit from Oklahoma City. It was an impulse buy. I thought it was high time I displayed that flag.

So last week, listening to the Attorney General blather about anti-terrorism preparations for our first post-9/11 Fourth of July, I felt compelled to haul out the Gadsden banner again. In case you’re curious, I finally found it stashed in a grocery sack behind the old typewriter in the back of my office closet.

In our town, hundreds of us traditionally lug our picnic hampers, wineglasses, and illegal fireworks to the beach on Independence Day. What we call the Big Stuff, the "official," often disappointing show sanctioned by the city fathers, launches from the pier about 9:00 p.m. An hour earlier, the prohibited pyrotechnics – you might call it the People’s Stuff – begin lighting up the sky spectacularly along the water’s edge for a couple of miles south.

Not too surprising, the beach is always festooned with U.S. flags fluttering beside the bonfires and barbecues. This year, I expect I’ll see more of them than ever.

But my little party won’t fly Old Glory this summer. Instead, in response to the political profit Bush, Ashcroft, Daschle, and the rest of our masters now reap from last September, we’ll hoist my polyester Gadsden flag, named for its designer, "the Sam Adams of South Carolina," radical-liberal Son of Liberty Christopher Gadsden. What better time than this July 4th – while FBI sentinels comb library records for the reading patterns of "suspicious" patrons – to let the old rattlesnake banner snap loudly at our beach site?

Ashcroft says folks like us "give ammunition to America’s enemies" when we "scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty." He told the Senate Judiciary Committee last year that acts of dissent may "erode our national unity and diminish our resolve."

Well, tough beans. When politicians openly whittle away the Bill of Rights with bogus promises of security, you should expect some dissent. When the power elite pushes through over-reaching legislation like the USA Patriot Act, and creates ominous cabinet-level Homeland Security posts, and redefines "domestic terrorism" with broader and broader brushstrokes, you should expect a raised eyebrow here and there – or at least a raised Gadsden flag.

"You’re not being very patriotic," a friend remarked when I told him my plan.

Of course, he’s confusing love of America with love of its government. A common mistake nowadays. Even Clinton publicly made it a few years ago, intentionally or not. Like many, my friend has no historical grounding. He thinks July 4th celebrates the U.S. Constitution, not the treasonous Declaration of Independence. His idea of patriotism is honoring our present-day King Georges, not the magnificent traitors from 1776, like Sam Adams, Joseph Warren, John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry and, yes, Christopher Gadsden.

You can be sure John Ashcroft knows what the Fourth of July is really about. He’s just hoping most Americans don’t.

There are a few days left before July 4th. Why not read Tom Paine’s Common Sense, then pass it on to a friend? Rent "The Patriot," the stirring Mel Gibson movie from two years ago, and watch it with your family and neighbors. Recommend LewRockwell.com to your co-workers.

And if you can get your hands on one, lift high the Gadsden flag. "Don’t Tread On Me." That’s the real spirit of Independence Day.

Wally Conger is a marketing consultant and writer living on California’s central coast.

© 2002 by LewRockwell.com

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Happy Independence Day!

My USA flag, with embroidered stars and labled, Made in USA, flies proudly above my Ron Paul yard sign everyday.

I live in an apartment with a flag pole in front of my window. I always have a view of old glory.

--Cliff, Sioux City, Iowa

If you fly a flag.... please consider flying it upside down as a universal sign of distress. If there was ever a time to fly it upside down & tell others what that means....... NOW is the time!

Have a safe & enjoyable day

Symbols are a form of idolitry and nationalism. I would prefer to have freedom.
grant

Here in St. Goerge, UT our Boy Scouts place a flag on a pole in a hole in the sidewalk or curb in front of your house. On flag day I woke up to see my whole street lined in Stars and Stripes. I am new to St. George so it was a wonderful surprise. I am up early today, so they are not here yet. But I am watching and waiting so I can make a donation.

As to what would I do for it. Die! and kill a select few to prevent any further unnecessary wars.

On this day, lets be thankful we have just enough freedom to take our country back.

right next to my Ron Paul for President sign. I intend to leave the RP sign up until after the election in Nov.
The Flag will always be there.

I do not condone violent revolution, but I will never be taken from my home alive if they come for me for my belief in Liberty.

Happy 4th of July.

in this country,

Hanging a Flag=being patriotic

It is unfortunate to use a symbol to tell the world "Look, I love my country cuz I hung a flag out on my porch."

Personally, I find flag waving to be a completely asinine symbol of the sheep in this country.