Posted on 08/06/2016 8:41:01 AM PDT by knarf
Historian E. Stanly Godbold describes the meaning of the snake: “The snake had long been a political symbol in America; at the time of the Albany Congress in 1754 Benjamin Franklin had drawn a disconnected serpent and given it the caption, ‘Join or Die.’ The coiled, threatening rattlesnake in 1775 was a symbol of the unity that the colonies had achieved. . . . [The rattlesnake] attacked only in self-defense but was always deadly. No more fitting symbol could have been found to express the mood of the Continental Congress.”
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I fly the Stars and Stripes, the Marine Corps, and the Navy Jack from my garage on Holidays.
The Navy Jack always caught my eye since grammar school in the 60’s.....
I remember a PLAYBOY article years ago (yes, I read it for articles)about racist groups in the USA. I always remembered the illustration was of the Statue of Liberty with a large rattlesnake around her neck looking outward.
That’s what I’m talkin’ about! Cool.
I have asked, and apparently there is no connection to Coriolanus, V. iii. 127.
Democrats in a strategy session on how to defeat Donald Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avtZJKydB-E
They make good soup too.
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