The Gadsden Flag Resistance
The Rattlesnake: Individually its rattles produce no sound, but united they can be heard by all; and while it does not attack unless provoked, it is deadly to step upon one.
That's the point of the Gadsden Resistance. The history behind the
flag tells the story. Our masters in Washington must be made to remember it.
Much like the Alice's Resturant Anti-Massacre Movement, joining is not hard.
Simply steal one of the flag .gifs, and slap it up
somewhere on your web site. Then link it to this page. There are no by-laws. I
will not compile a list of Gadsden Flag sites. The message is the movement,A Short History of The Gadsden Flag
Swiped with Pride from <URL: http://www.elk-grove.k12.il.us/usflag/>.For those of you who may care, I present this short history of the Gadsden Flag.
The Gadsden Flag: The American Revolutionary period was a time of intense
but controlled individualism - when self-directing responsible individuals again and again
decided for themselves what they should do, and did it- without needing anyone
else to give them an assignment or supervise them in carrying it out.
Such a person was the patriot Colonel Christopher Gadsden of South Carolina.
He had seen and liked a bright yellow banner with a hissing, coiled
rattlesnake rising up in the center, and beneath the serpent the same words
that appeared on the Striped Rattlesnake Flag - Don't Tread On Me. Colonel
Gadsden made a copy of this flag and submitted the design to the Provincial
Congress in South Carolina. Commodore Esek Hopkins, commander of the new
Continental fleet, carried a similar flag in February, 1776, when his ships
put to sea for the first time.
Hopkins captured large stores of British cannon and military supplies in the
Bahamas. His cruise marked the salt-water baptism of the American Navy, and it
saw the first landing of the Corps of Marines, on whose drums the Gadsden
symbol was painted.