Description
This UNITE OR DIE flag shown has been produced in response to all those wanting a flag similar to Glen Beck’s 9/12 idea. On this flag you are able to pen in the 9 and 12 if you so choose. This tax revolt against reckless spending is a true grass roots revolution showing all our anger at any Politicians who recklessly spend OUR money, somehow thinking it is their’s to spend foolishly. When you listen to Nancy Pelosi’s comment about this not being a Grass Roots revolution, but a Astro Turf organization, it makes you realize just how OUT OF TOUGH our POLITICIANS really are.
The rattlesnake was the favorite animal emblem of the Americans even before the Revolution. In 1751 Benjamin Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette carried a bitter article protesting the British practice of sending convicts to America. The author suggested that the colonists return the favor by shipping a cargo of rattlesnakes to England, which could then be distributed in the noblemen’s gardens. Three years later the Gazette printed a political cartoon of a snake as a commentary on the Albany Congress. To remind the delegates of the danger of disunity, the serpent was shown cut to pieces. Each segment is marked with the name of a colony, and the motto “JOIN or DIE” below. Other newspapers took up the snake theme
