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"Don't Tread On Me" 🤔

Snek: Don't Tread On Me!

Fern and Stark: Tread on it.

Frieren: Imma tread on it.

Artwork by Tony Moreschi

Don't Tread on Me - or my cigar!

The Montgomery Riverboat memes do not disappoint.

No one's even raised your fucking tea tax. You're as free as you've ever been. Chill.

This article discusses a little history around the Gadsden flag, its origins and development as a symbol of freedom, and reasons it has endured as a symbol of freedom for so long. It does, however, miss a key point in this Colorado controversy.

The problem with a balanced analysis in this case is that it overlooks how public officials just make stuff up. The school administrator who insisted student Jaiden leave school property - now - states his reason:

"The reason that we do not want the flag displayed is due to its origins with slavery and the slave trade."

People in authority who want to prevail like fantasy arguments, because their victims have no way to refute their nonsense. Do you suppose that when Jaiden's mother tried to explain the flag's origins in the American Revolution, her arguments had any persuasive effect? Of course not. When Colorado Governor Jared Polis supported Jaiden's free speech rights in a public letter, it had no effect. The school administrator had already removed Jaiden and his backpack from school property, with justification that amounted to a joke.

I would say that to counter self-important administrators who use dishonest, false arguments, we must treat them as a joke. The problem is, they get the first move, they have tenure in their positions, some parents will believe their nonsense, and parents who hold up ignorant slobs for ridicule often find themselves regarded as troublemakers.

So what do you do when your child is effectively ostracized from school because some administrator does not know what an historical symbol means, or care about fair enforcement of school district policy? If you really think a Gadsden flag patch on a twelve-year-old's backpack disrupts the school environment because it symbolizes white supremacy, how disruptive is it when you show yourself a fool, and students under your authority no longer respect you?

I believe in Empress Acina supremacy

(even though I killed her and I don't feel guilty in the slightest)

There is NO SUCH THING as Government Money, there is only TAXPAYER MONEY. There crooks in the beltway borrow the money IN YOUR NAME, without your consent. When anyone else does that it is called FRAUD AND IDENTITY THEFT.

Don't tread or slither on me.