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<DIV>Amid all the flag waving in my neighborhood, I thought about buying the
original American flag, the classic Gadsden with coiled snake and "Don't Tread
On Me" demand, and hanging it from my front porch. </DIV>
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<DIV>But my wife nixed this idea, saying that the flag has racist connotations.
Years ago, she worked with Jim Ridgeway on a CD-ROM (and I believe laserdisc)
version of "Blood in the Face," which is, as I'm sure most here know, a docu on
the far right/neo-fascist groups and militias prepping for race war and the End
of Days. Apparently the Gadsden flag is a fav with this crowd, but I always
thought they preferred swastikas and the Stars & Stripes with the stars
replaced with a cross. I thought that in the wake of the Patriot Act, the
message "Don't Tread On Me" would resonate with my neighbors, who would inquire
as to why I was hanging this flag. But my beloved thinks this will make us look
like Nazis. What do the enlightened here think?</DIV>
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<DIV>DP</DIV>
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