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mwooldri

(10,818 posts) Tue Jun 10, 2014, 10:45 AM Jun 2014

BBC World Service News: Gadsen flag used by extreme right wing groups. [View all]

Yes we know this to be true... but to have the BBC state this in the bottom of the hour news summary drove the point home. It wasn't a political statement, just a statement of fact.

It makes me think that the US mainstream news media won't go there... and go to state this truth.

In my mind, what those anti-government, anti law-enforcement murderers did in Las Vegas is change the symbolism of the "Don't Tread on Me" flag from a flag for the Tea Party to something to be associated with the likes of the Nazi flag. Then for the BBC to state it's a flag used by "extreme right wing groups" .... it just blew my mind.

Why does this truth get spread outside the US like this but not here? Doesn't America deserve straight news?

Thank you for listening.

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BBC World Service News: Gadsen flag used by extreme right wing groups. [View all] mwooldri Jun 2014 OP

It seems to me to also be a gun group's attempts upaloopa Jun 2014 #1

If the jelly-bellied Olde Country Buffet crowd ever had to pull a Valley Forge in support Aristus Jun 2014 #6

The truth is that during Valey Forge..... Bonhomme Richard Jun 2014 #8

I agree. Aristus Jun 2014 #10

That's an interesting assessment. Orrex Jun 2014 #12

Believe they are their direct descendents. It accounts for their wealth and staying power. freshwest Jun 2014 #38

Hey! We like Country Buffet! DavidDvorkin Jun 2014 #34

Disturbing our major outlets are tiptoeing around this so delicately. DirkGently Jun 2014 #2

"It makes me think that the US mainstream news media won't go there... and go to state this truth." theHandpuppet Jun 2014 #3

Mainstream news media smallcat88 Jun 2014 #4

They have that flag on license plates here in VA. FSogol Jun 2014 #5

seriously? LiberalLovinLug Jun 2014 #19

Yes. I see them here in Virginia every day. LiberalLoner Jun 2014 #23

Yup, seen them too here in NC. mwooldri Jun 2014 #24

Went to college in Richmond abelenkpe Jun 2014 #30

They have specialty plates in Missouri, too: Gore1FL Jun 2014 #32

Used to be a perfectly respectable DirkGently Jun 2014 #35

That's a sort of vanity plate, specifically chosen, right? Because it seems the official state plate Dark n Stormy Knight Jun 2014 #36

Yes, they cost $20 more than the traditional plates. n/t FSogol Jun 2014 #37

Yeah, they're ugliness is on full display.. Cha Jun 2014 #40

Domestic Terrorism Iliyah Jun 2014 #7

I learned far more of Mexican Energy Policy in a week of news nadinbrzezinski Jun 2014 #9

We are children. We (as a nation) react to stimuli..not reason. n/t Bonhomme Richard Jun 2014 #14

I give the reader a tad more credit nadinbrzezinski Jun 2014 #18

I have something to cheer you up.... Spitfire of ATJ Jun 2014 #11

I can't find the link, but there was a really interesting poll floating around here a few weeks back Victor_c3 Jun 2014 #20

The media were puzzled by that and totally ignoring actual history.... Spitfire of ATJ Jun 2014 #28

Gadsen flag endorsed by socialist Ben Franklin and Gadsen was a proto-union supporter. Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2014 #13

Which it is why it's the 21st Century swastika. mwooldri Jun 2014 #15

And occasionally, some well-meaning naif tries to "reclaim" it nxylas Jun 2014 #25

There is an individual in Edmonton, Alberta named Manwoman Maedhros Jun 2014 #27

I did notice CNN has 'gone there' online, in a op-ed: muriel_volestrangler Jun 2014 #16

The right-wing (GOP) M.O. is to appropriate symbols/buzzwords SoCalDem Jun 2014 #17

Real news comes from the foreign press. Dawson Leery Jun 2014 #21

I have the Gadsen flag symbol on a hat Puzzledtraveller Jun 2014 #22

I wonder if there is some custom Gadsen toilet paper? GusBob Jun 2014 #26

Don't wipe on me? FSogol Jun 2014 #31

That'd be appropriate! And hey, it's YELLOW already! calimary Jun 2014 #33

G-A-D-S-D-E-N johnp3907 Jun 2014 #29

Yes, we deserve Real News.. everyone does. the Gadsen flag "fixed".. Cha Jun 2014 #39

I don't follow the Twitter world, thanks for this corrected flag :) nt mwooldri Jun 2014 #41

I don't do twitter myself but thankfully they post them online so Cha Jun 2014 #42