The far right's use of the Gadsden flag predates the tea party

[jmowreader]

I bought a new used medium-format camera right after New Year's. I send the film to Kansas for processing because it's less expensive to do that and Dwayne's Photo is the best C-41 lab in America. I also had a roll of film I shot at the 2003 antiwar protest in Fayettenam, NC, so I added it to the order. (I have no idea why I kept this film unprocessed for that long.)

This picture was on the roll from 2003. :



Declared teabaggers didn't exist in 2003, but right wingers were using the symbols associated with modern-day teabaggers then.

[Blue_Tires]

1. Yeah, I've seen it long before the teabaggers came along

but mostly by libertarians and gun nutters...

Now the Gadsen has become the hipster's Confederate Navy Jack.....

[OilemFirchen]

2. This Gadsden Flag?

... from an unidentified Occupy protest.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

3. FAMU (the university) uses the snake as its symbol...

Maybe the teabaggers are associated with FAMU?

[jmowreader]

4. Doubtful

Teabaggers are generally white and FAMU is a Historically Black University.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

5. I know. I guess I was trying to be funny that they picked FAMU's sports symbol. nt