Check out this site:
http://www.title4flags.com/flags.htm
It basicly claims that the US government still operates under the martial law from the Civil War, because the gold trim is still around the US flag.
Now, tinfoil hat off.
Is it true that a gold trim around the US flag represents a time of martial law or war in the US?
Why do many US flags have this gold trim, if, as the article states, the US flag is only to be composed of red,white and blue.
Here’s some info to get you started:
http://www.niceflag.com/colors.htm
It looks perdyful, mostly.
BobT
February 8, 2003, 6:50pm
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I also hear that if you are in a place where red, white and blue bunting is displayed throughout, the Commissioner of Baseball is the sovereign authority.
yabob
February 8, 2003, 7:00pm
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No, it is not true.
From the US Army Deparment of Heraldry site:
https://www.perscomonline.army.mil/tagd/tioh/FAQ/FringeOnAmFlg.htm
Records of the Department of the Army indicate that fringe was used on the National flag as early as 1835 and its official use by the Army dates from 1895. There is no record of an Act of Congress or Executive Order which either prescribes or prohibits the addition of fringe, nor is there any indication that any symbolism was ever associated with it. The use of fringe is optional with the person or organization displaying the flag.
The overall website for the Department of Heraldry is here:
https://www.perscomonline.army.mil/tagd/tioh/tioh.htm
I ran across this ADL sponsored site, which has an interesting laundry list of “idiot legal arguments” (their term), like those based on flag fringes:
http://www.adl.org/mwd/suss1.asp
The nitwits have amongst themselves this strange superstition that the presence of a gold trim on a courtroom’s flag somehow imposes some different sort of law than what’s expected – although they cannot get their stories straight on whether it’s martial law or maritime law, the two being very different. They have absolutely no legal authority for any of this and seem to be making it up as they go along. They don’t seem to have noticed that the gold trim appears only on INDOOR flags, which are made of fairly flimsy material and would hang limp and drab without either breeze or sunlight indoors, so the gold trim provides some esthetic compensation for the lack of sunlight and breeze, and that all OUTDOOR flags, even the ones at military bases and on ships, don’t have this fringe, because outdoor flags are made of heavier fabric and the wind and damp would soon ruin a fringe.
The ADL has an obvious agenda, but the list is still interesting.