Poor Arizonans, some have got to wonder when they fell asleep and when they will be waking up on some place other than the first page of the national news. In a move that's bound to inflame just about the only remaining people in the nation who've not been offended by one or the other of Arizona's new brand of wacky laws and fringe rules from the birther bill (vetoed by the Governor) to the anti-immigration laws (many still in limbo due to court orders) who knew that next up would be a bill signed into law by the Governor today which gives the Gadsden "Don't Tread on Me" flag equal status to not only the flag of the United States, but many other flags in Arizona. For those people to whom the American flag is the one and only true symbol of our nation, giving this alternate flag the same flag rights would seem to serve to pop a few blood vessels. Even though the flag is truly American in origin both in design and meaning, it is not the flag of the United States. While it would be fine for the Governor and the state to endow it with display rights in Arizona, it does not quite sit right that it should be endowed with the rights of Old Glory.
It will be interesting to see what the right and left members of Rant Rave think of this bold Tea Party-centric move that would seem to suggest they are not part of the America you and I are a part of, and maybe when Sarah Palin was talking about the part of America she lives in, she was actually not talking about that which flies the Red, White, and Blue.
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