The Community Spoon: Ron Paul...Still making way too much sense.

4/20/09

Ron Paul...Still making way too much sense.

Don't get me wrong, this to me is a last line of defense. This is our right though..of course Big Brother won't tell you that, because you would be an "extremist".

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us - William Orville Douglas (October 16, 1898 – January 19, 1980) - the longest-serving justice in the history of the Supreme Court.

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Gadsden Flag

To accompany the Navy on their first mission, Congress also authorized the mustering of five companies of Marines. The Alfred and its sailors and marines went on to achieve some of the most notable victories of the American Revolution. But that's not the story we're interested in here. What's particularly interesting for us is that some of the Marines that enlisted that month in Philadelphia were carrying drums painted yellow, emblazoned with a fierce rattlesnake, coiled and ready to strike, with thirteen rattles, and sporting the motto "Don't Tread on Me."

Franklin's very serious political cartoon

Franklin sketched, carved, and published the first known political cartoon in an American newspaper. It was the image of a snake cut into eight sections. The sections represented the individual colonies and the curves of the snake suggested the coastline. New England was combined into one section as the head of the snake. South Carolina was at the tail. Beneath the snake were the ominous words "Join, or Die." This had nothing to do with independence from Britain. It was a plea for unity in defending the colonies during the French and Indian War. It played off a common superstition of the time: a snake that had been cut into pieces could come back to life if you joined the sections together before sunset.