DONT TREAD ON ME
Posted in Liberty! It's not just for John Stewart Mill, The U.S. Military - Don't Tread On It, Uncategorized, Veterans - You broke 'em, you better pay for 'em on February 16th, 2008 by grizzlegrizThis is pretty cool. I didn’t know they changed the Navy Jack back to the revolutionary Jack. Observing Colors would have been a lot cooler if I was hoisting a big snake on the ship’s fantail. They changed it in 2002.
The old Jack:
Of course, the number of stars changed as the number of states changed, but the Jack was largely the same for 200+ years. I think the revolutionary jack was inspired by the Gadsden flag:
Seems appropriate that the snake was coiled and ready to strike on the Gadsden flag, whereas the snake is actually striking in the revolutionary one. Turns out that this flag was, itself inspired by a print credited to Benjamin Franklin (Franklin opposed the Bald Eagle as a national symbol because it was a bird of bad moral character):
Note the initials of 8 colonies next to each piece of the snake. This was a plea to unite the colonies during the French and Indian War. Apparently, there was a superstition that snakes could come back to life if their parts were rejoined. I learned as a 6-year-old that doesn’t work with worms.
Seems appropriate to the liberty movement, doesn’t it? The Free State project has something similar, but with a porcupine. I would like to see the coiled snake of the Gadsden flag on the stripes of the Navy Jack. Ideas anyone? Submit your work.
