This is the tea party symbol

[rdking647]

the tea party nutjobs with their cries of freedom and outrage at so called oppresion like to use the old texas motto of "come and take it". and the "come and take it" flag as their symbol..
I expected the cannon to be some big cannon like you see at gettysburg or something..
well I was in Gonzalez texas where the cannon is located..
This is the museum they builty for the cannon with th eflag




and here is the cannon




I wonder if the nut jobs realize there symbol isnt much bigger than a toy :)

[NYC_SKP]

1. Wouldn't if be fun one day to pack up the kids and wife and hop in the minivan, and come there...

...and Take It?

Just wheel it out, load it up, and take off?

Then just drive down to, say, Yoakum?

:P

[uppityperson]

2. scrolling down, got to 2nd pict and broke up laughing.

[Posteritatis]

3. Of course, a six-pounder would still decidedly inconvenience anyone in its path...

They probably do think of it as a six-incher instead, of course.

[dems_rightnow]

4. That's not the Tea Party symbol

Nor does anything in that picture have anything to do with the Tea Party.

That is the cannon that fired the first shot in Texas' bid for independence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gonzales

The Tea Party has been using a "Don't Tread on me" flag, not this.

[MADem]

5. And they should be ashamed.

Ben Franklin designed that flag. Originally, it was a political cartoon.

He also was all for social welfare and community enhancement programs like LIBRARIES, and POST OFFICES and FIRE DEPARTMENTS, stuff that makes cities and towns stronger, and all the things these tea party assholes want to unfund or underfund so that they wither away and die. Oh, and they didn't call him Doctor Franklin because he was an expert on leeches and boils; he was a SCIENTIST whose experiments on electricty were legend all around the globe. Totally not a tea party type--he even tried to get England to stop being assholes; he took great pains to negotiate with them over the course of several years, and only came to the conclusion that revolution was inevitable after extending olive branch after olive branch and being rebuffed, rudely too, by Parliament while he was in London.

See what happens when people don't know their own history? They make asses of themselves!

[rdking647]

7. in texas the tea party likes to use it as a symbol............

its a texas thing......

http://cowboys-and-tea-parties.blogspot.com/2010/10/gonzales-flag-come-and-take-it.html

[GreenStormCloud]

10. Texas Tea Party types are starting to use it. N/T

[stevedeshazer]

6. LOL!

That pool looks like the one FDR's WPA built in the small town where I grew up.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. That ten pounder was state of the art for mobile

arty in 1848... after all.

[TexasTowelie]

9. Look how dry it is in Seguin.

The grass is dead.

If you want to see some real military armaments from the Texas Revolution/Civil War eras go to the Red McCombs Campus Center at Southwestern Univerity in Georgetown, Texas. The displays includes canons, muskets, pistols, rifles, bayonettes, knifes and daggers. There is no charge to see the displays and the campus center is usually open at all times.