Don't Tread on Me.

Life is, after all, meant to be lived free as a sovereign individual, not as a slave to the almighty state.

Another appropriate slogan, coined in the heat of patriotism by a man who refused to accept political bondage, is Patrick Henry's "I don't know what course others may take, but as for me give me liberty or give me death."

In other words, life is not worth living unless it is as a free and sovereign individual.

"Are we a nation of cowards?" some ask. Yes, we are. Government intrudes into every possible avenue of our lives today, yet across this great nation, people steadfastly refuse to stand up for themselves.

The "politically-correct" Marxist-Leninist hypocrites use junk science and fear-mongering in their efforts to destroy our fundamental inalienable rights of every human being, weaken traditional family values, hi-jack the English language and "socially engineer" the masses as they dumb down our children in government youth propaganda camps (aka public schools).

All these tactics erode the freedoms we are all born with, yet do so without our knowledge or permission. Don't Tread on Me is a warning to all bureaucrats: Stop trampling our birthrights and get the hell out of our breathing space.

Never underestimate what a few like-minded souls can do to effect change. Colonists migrated across the great pond to America to live free or die. The British government kept pushing, pushing, pushing in its effort to gain more power and control over the colonists. The tactic then was as it is today: one small step at a time. Just not so much that anybody is willing to give up life and family in an outright revolt.

One day, the British imposed a small, seemingly-innocuous tax on tea. One small group of malcontents coming together one night in 1773 proved the British had finally met a wall of resistance. The colonists pushed back. They stormed the ships at anchor. They made their heroic statement by throwing the tea overboard into Boston Harbor, then ran home for their muskets.

In 1775, the "proverbial straw" sparked the American Revolution that did not need to be. For if the British government had left the colonists alone, those who knew best how to govern self and run their private lives without interference from abroad, America would not exist as it does today.

When the Second Continental Congress met in Philadelphia in 1776, it adopted the Declaration of Independence. Also, South Carolina delegate Christopher Gadsden unfurled the remarkable design of what became a flag indelibly etched in the nation's mind for over two centuries.

An ominous, beady-eyed rattlesnake, head up, tongue out, poised to strike, coiled above the immortal slogan:

DON'T TREAD ON ME!

The Gadsden Flag was a warning to the enemy when it was flown by the United States Navy for the first naval battle of the American Revolution.

That the symbolic Gadsden Flag has survived the test of time is proof its message is clear and effective. That is why diArmani.com has chosen to run it up the pole. A warning to our own governments that fester and wallow in anarchy, foolish folly, fraud, breach of trust and corruption.

It isn't enough for diArmani.com, operated by a mob of three cheerful subversives, to simply adopt the Gadsden Flag. We must always be on guard to the many traitors among us, the likes of American Revolutionary War General, Benedict Arnold. There's one sneaking around in every crowd, ready to sell us to the enemy for a measly 30 pieces of silver.

One of Gaffin's father's favorite expressions was: "Don't just sit there; get off your arse and do something, even if it's wrong." It's already been proven that Kanuckistanians are far too apathetic to get off the couch or stand on the stump to protest. Otherwise, the dangerous Firearms Act (Bill C-68) would have self-vaporized before the sheaf of papers, in two official languages, hit the floor of the parliamentary factory. This mush-brained generation is not particularly interested in lodging their disagreements with firearms or any other kind of de novo-Nazi/Stalinist freedom-sucking legislation.

The once-radical, conservative-minded individual passes through several distinct stages of thinking before being enveloped by the Marxist-Leninist ideology.

First, he rants that the philosophy is dangerous, damnable, disorderly, counter-opposed to law and order, the Christian faith and is a scourge to a "free society".

Next, he says he's not very interested in expressing his opinions. "I'm kinda busy." Besides, he still has his guns and he can still hunt. Where's the problem? he asks.

Then comes the disagreements in the ranks, before he is brainwashed to believe he has no rights, anyway, and has tired of standing up for some nebulous thing. The issue ceases to be of any importance to him one way or the other, he decides.

Finally, he craters completely. He asserts to having always upheld and believed in the socialist doctrine. In this method, he is converted to the pink fold and displays solidarity in the spirit of "getting along" with his red comrades. It's so much easier than thinking about using criminal law to charge politicians and bureaucrats for overthrowing his rights and charging the whole lot with fraud and breach of the public purse.

Here is where a few caring stalwarts have to step up to the plate and take up the slack, protecting freedoms and rights even for the undeserving who are too stupid to know they have any rights to lose.

It only takes a few dedicated individuals, rowing in the same direction, to make it abundantly clear to the socialists troops:

DON'T TREAD ON ME; DON'T TREAD ON MY RIGHTS.

diArmani.com - We bite back.

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