A Common Symbol for Commoners

Something we can Coalesce our Recollections around in order to create the Shared Sense of History necessary for a Collective Cause to take shape in the Present

1776 LIBERTY FLAG

Per Library of Congress: “Fort Moultrie Flag, rectangular, a royal blue field with a crescent moon in the ‘north west’ quadrant & capitol block letters L I B E R T Y centered in the lower third of the body.???

In 1776, Rebel Colonial Colonel William Moultrie commanded the defenses of Charleston, South Carolina. He ordered and supervised the construction of a fortification on (then) ‘Sulivans Island’. This facility was located at the entrance of Charleston harbor and would later bear Colonel Moultrie’s name. Later yet, it would the site of the failed infantry charge by the all black Union Civil War Infantry Unit as depicted in the major motion picture ‘Glory’. On June 28th, 1776, British Naval and German Hussein ‘shock troop’ units attacked the peoples’ army. While the colonial elites argued over commas and semi colons in Philadelphia more average, every day folks repulsed the globe’s premiere sea and land combat units.

The primitive installation was mostly constructed of palmetto trees* and sand berms. The Royalist - Loyalist take over attempt ended in a crushing defeat. This populist victory helped to keep the English out of South Carolina until 1780. Until General Washington’s December 1776 victories in New Jersey, this stubborn resistance was the high light of the colonial effort for independence? * official flag emblem and state foliage of South Carolina….

Andy Jackson silently toils for the Democratic Party on the twenty dollar bill and ‘Honest Abe’ represents the GOP on every penny— Jefferson is an ubiquitous emblem, originally for the Dems and, more of late, for the Libertarians. But during the last decade the populist Citizens For A Better Veterans Home in California has also been bothered about the lack of using the Fort Moultrie Flag as an official third party banner.

As early as 1776 there existed this free, no cost, uncopyrighted, no fee, public domain completely unexploited by True Independents [“Decline To State???] and all third party types. The Fort Moultrie icon even has the word ‘Liberty’ prominently displayed. So much than the circle of stars or the ‘Don’t Tred On Me’ snake banner, the Fort Moultrie emblem is tailor made for non Dems and non GOP fighting for the nation and against the two party duopoly. And here it is, over half a decade into the 21st Century and over 230 years since that historic battle in Dixie, and this lost opportunity just stares back, unblinkingly, from the long, long wall of American History. Many Populist activists sign off their correspondence with ‘for Liberty’. Maybe we should wave the LIBERTY flag also! Could someone please explain this gross dioctomy to us?

Doctor Paul Wayne Snyder [PhD], John Dennis Coffey, Mary “Tish??? Firmiss, Philip Sawyer, Ivann Greene, Harry Martin, Jane Wagner and over a hundred other anti establishment patriots and veterans’ advocates have been fighting the corrupt elites of the sullied ‘Veterans Industry’ since May 1998. Citizens For A Better Veterans Home sincerely promotes the use of the Fort Moultrie Flag, the 21st Century Peace Symbol [the three bladed wind powered electric energy generator], Direct Democracy guru California Governor Hiram ‘Bull Moose’ Johnson, his 1912 running mate President Teddy Roosevelt, Theodore Bear stuff toys, and the before mentioned Bull Moose as icons for the 21st Century American Populist movement. In fighting the multi Trillion dollar Global Corporate Empire, we every day folk need easily identifiable historic symbols [how ever imperfect] to spread news of the resistance.

Citizens For A Better Veterans Home welcomes correspondence, comments and even criticism from other liberty loving residents of this once great nation. Feel free to log on to www.calvets.blogspot.com. Feel free to call at 619.420.0209 or 760.253.2371. [Call ahead for fax transmissions.] Feel free to mail at gpcaveterans@yahoo.com or 263 Eucalyptus Court, Chula Vista, CAlifornia 91910-3030.

For Liberty…

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