Tea Party on April 15th

Are you with me in getting together as countrymen and countrywomen to take a stand against our government? I'm not bashing Obama, and I'm not putting blame on anyone for the GM and AIG disasters. I'm talking about getting together and making ourselves heard - really heard. On April 15th in many cities across the U.S. there will be a gathering of our fellow citizens in an effort to be heard. Radio and tv talkshow host Glenn Beck has started the 9/12 Project which has transpired into the Tax Day Tea Party. Here's the link to his website:

http://www.the912project.com/



Now I'm not usually overly political, but I'VE HAD ENOUGH! It seems as though the representatives, senators, congressmen, and lobbyists are not looking out for me - or you - or any of us here in the middle class. This is a chance to get out and get heard. Join me on April 15th in Denver at the steps of our state capitol building.



Today I've been searching for information on the Don't Tread On Me slogan and found the flag was originally the Gadsden, Alabama flag. The snake, represented on the flag, is a rattlesnake, found only in the American region. Here's what I found on the Founding Fathers website:



Benjamin Franklin is famous for his sense of humor. In 1751, he wrote a satirical commentary in his Pennsylvania Gazette suggesting that as a way to thank the Brits for their policy of sending convicted felons to America, American colonists should send rattlesnakes to England.
Three years later, in 1754, he used a snake to illustrate another point. This time not so humorous.
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."
[Benjamin Franklin's woodcut from May 9, 1754.Newspaper Serial and Government Publications Division,Library of Congress.]
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.
The snake illustration was reprinted throughout the colonies. Dozens of newspapers from Massachusetts to South Carolina ran Franklin's sketch or some variation of it. For example, the Boston Gazette recreated the snake with the words "Unite and Conquer" coming from its mouth.
I suppose the newspaper editors were hungry for graphic material, this being America's first political cartoon. Whatever the reason, Franklin's snake wiggled its way into American culture as an early symbol of a shared national identity.



Check out the Founding Fathers Website link on my homepage and get more great info.



I want to be PROUD of being an American. I want to be REPRESENTED. I want to live in the America that our forefather's created. And I've realized that they created this country, this democracy, by taking action, standing up and being heard. It time that I honor them and do the same. We all have to. Otherwise, we lose a piece of our nation each time we don't, which is already apparent.