Treading On "Don't Tread On Me!"

by JASmius

Egadsden:

“This is a shock. Honestly, I feel like this is Russia. I’ve been around the world … this is what you expect in really closed countries where there is no freedom of expression. Not here — so it’s shocking.” That’s what a small business owner in Ocala, Florida, told the Blaze about a demand he’s received from city officials. Keith Greenberg, owner of a small store that specializes in knives, says the City of Ocala has threatened to fine him up to $500 per day if he does not immediately take down a Gadsden flag flying outside his business.

Well, Keith, guess what?  This is a closed country where there's no freedom of expression.  Or, rather, there's freedom of expression for those who express the official, Regime-approved party line, which does not include any redneck insurrectionist who would dare to declare themselves an enemy of The State by displaying a blatant symbol of "racist, rightwing extremist terrorist theocratic rebellion" like a Gadsden flag.  I'd think you'd be aware of that after almost six years of fundamental transformation, Keith.  Didn't you get the memo?  O "won," after all.  Twice.

Certainly Senators Bernie Sanders (C-VT) and Tom Udall (D-NM) are, with their transparent attempt to formally repeal the First Amendment, and it goes all the way down to the lowliest Obamunist minion:



Yes, you heard them right. They gathered (a First Amendment right) and talked and discussed (a First Amendment right) and then signed a petition (another First Amendment right), all to repeal OUR First Amendment rights.  Which would simply formally codify in law the already existent political reality on the proverbial ground.  If, that is, they could ever get it through Congress, which they won't.  Which is why formally codifying the death of non-Obamunist political speech in law is unnecessary and thus, irrelevant other than for those who are sufficiently obsessive/compulsive to be unable to tolerate even the fiction that their political enemies have any refuge or respite from their utter, total, and complete domination, oppression, and enslavement.

Frankly, I don't know why they bother.  But then, I don't suffer from OCD, nor am I a blithering, brain-dead asshole, so I probably can't relate.

[h/t: Larry Wallenmeyer]