On my way home, I saw a neighbor flying some strange variation of the American flag. The stripes were alternating red and white, but were vertical instead of horizontal and thicker than on the actual flag. The canton featured blue stars on a white background rather than the normal white on blue. For what it’s worth, they were flying a Trump flag as well, with this bizarro American flag flying underneath the Trump flag.
That’s the one. Thank you for finding the answer so quickly.
“Not all members of the movement describe themselves as “sovereign citizens”, and some movement members actually regard the term “sovereign citizen” as an oxymoron. Sovereign citizens may prefer to label themselves as “state nationals”, “constitutionalists”, “freemen”, “natural people”, “living people”, “private persons”, or as people “seeking the truth” or “living on the land”.”
They left out kucoos and nutjobs. Though in their defense, they do make highly entertaining videos when explaining their reasonings for not having to adhere to the law to cops or judges. .
I love seeing the police roll up on them. On that OnPatrol show. Guess who always loses and gets handcuffed?
They might seem to be highly entertaining, but the facet is they are extremely dangerous. People have been killed by these nutjobs.
That should be fact, not facet.
It appears to have evolved from the flag of the US Customs and Coast Guard, with the idea being that vertical stripes are a civil flag, horizontal stripes are a military flag, imposed by the perfidious Union government on the poor downtrodden south, just because they had the temerity to rebel.
Seems to have come from a passage in The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne:
"…here, with a view from its front windows adown this not very enlivening prospect, and thence across the harbour, stands a spacious edifice of brick. From the loftiest point of its roof, during precisely three and a half hours of each forenoon, floats or droops, in breeze or calm, the banner of the republic; but with the thirteen stripes turned vertically, instead of horizontally, and thus indicating that a civil, and not a military, post of Uncle Sam’s government is here established.
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Excellent cite!
We have a whole sovereign citizen thread here, and it is both horrifying and entertaining.
Wait, holup… so they base their beliefs on a snippet of fiction!? Oh, brother.
This sort of flag (like the pickup trucks flying a bunch of American, Trump, and “Fuck Biden” flags) always reminds me of this:
Bingo
Art imitating reality!
From watching Cops, the guy without a shirt on.