Don’t Tread on Me
In an excellent piece at Townhall.com, W. Thomas Smith Jr. reminds Americans that the “Don’t Tread on Me” flags and bumper stickers have a patriotic historical background, not the “Rightwing extremist” symbol our government would have us believe.
![The Gadsden Flag](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Gadsden_flag.svg/250px-Gadsden_flag.svg.png)
Read the article here.
Subversive? Hardly.
An unapologetic expression of pride in – and love for – American independence and the kind of defiant, can-do-despite-the-odds courage exhibited throughout history in places with names like Lexington, Yorktown, Fredericksburg, Bastogne, Hue, and Fallujah?
You bet.
I will be flying the Gadsden flag from my front porch as soon as it arrives.