9/7/23, 6:48 PM Don't Tread on Us - The American Vision

Don't Tread on Us
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2023 BY AMERICAN VISION

Gary discusses a recent dust-up at a school in Colorado regarding the Gadsden Flag.

The 52 signers of the Declaration weren’t dropped from the sky in Philadelphia on July 2. The
freshly printed document announced that the 13 American colonies, then at war with Great Britain,
were now independent states and no longer part of the British Empire. The decision was not made
lightly. Thomas Jefferson expressed the sentiments of most of his fellow Americans in a letter he
had written in November of 1775 to John Randolph, who was in England at the time:

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Believe me, dear Sir: there is not in the British empire a man who more cordially loves a
union with Great Britain than I do. But, by the God that made me, I will cease to exist
before I yield to a connection on such terms as the British Parliament propose[s]; and in
this, I think I speak the sentiments of America.

In Jefferson’s mind, there was an America before its written Declaration of Independence. The
political ideals of those who forged a more unified nation were not developed within a worldview
vacuum. Since ideas have consequences, we should expect that the beliefs of the existing colonies
would have an impact on the newly formed national government, and if not, then the individual
states would retain them as they did. Sadly, however, the truth about our once robust Christian
heritage is being steadily dismantled. The early colonies’ reliance on God’s providence is nothing
more than a faded memory for most Americans. If we are ever to restore what is about to be lost,
we will need to learn the truth about our nation’s founding.

Gary discusses a recent dust-up at a school in Colorado regarding the Gadsden Flag.
Administrators at the school told a student that he needed to remove a Gadsden patch from his

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backpack because it was a racist symbol. Gary sets the record straight. Note: Listen all the way to
the end to hear an update from Gary about this controversy at the school.

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