Wow. This really made a couple light bulbs come on for me! Nice post.

On the other hand, I tend to sympathize with the Tea Party as those advocating for the principles of non-government intervention and freedom in the sense the American Founding Fathers originally envisioned it.

I often fly these flags when roasting hot dogs with all my rowdy red neck neighbors.

Of course, flags are symbols that can mean different things to different folks, so I'd better clarify that I see both of these flags as declarations of independence from tyrannical central governments. Nothing more.