The Orange Flag On My Front Porch

[smoogatz]

Means I believe that Dick Cheney and George W Bush are not the legitimate President and Vice President of the United States. It means I believe that the Republican party and its operatives committed massive election fraud on November 2, 2004, and that they control the United States government illegally and without the consent of the people. I believe that John F. Kerry is, in fact, the President of the United States. My belief is supported by the exit polls, which showed Kerry winning by a 5% margin, and extensive statistical analysis performed by experts across the country that indicate the near impossibility of exit poll failure ONLY in four crucial swing states. I hope that others who believe, as I do, that George W. Bush is NOT the legitimate President of the United States, will also show the orange flag of protest.

[Flammable Materials]

1. Where did you get it? n/t

[smoogatz]

3. http://flagsgeorgia.com/socofl.html

A Google search will yield Blue State vendors, too.

[lonestarnot]

10. Welcome to DU! Ordering a flag - Orange same belief! n/t

[Gyre]

2. Welcome to DU!

You fit right in. :)

Gyre

[smoogatz]

4. Thanks!

Been here awhile--just too busy to post much.

[whistle]

5. Orange flag???

[smoogatz]

6. Orange Flag!!!

[pie]

32. Orange flag during Saint Patrick's Day!

Please wait till March 18th

[OneMoreDemocrat]

7. Do you have to give this explanation to everyone who.........

walks by so they know why you have an orange flag up?

These sorts of things generally only work if other people know what you're trying to say or protest, otherwise you just have a pretty orange flag on your front porch.

[smoogatz]

8. That's why I posted about it here.

I'm trying to start a national movement. So far, it's off to a slow start. But I'm hopeful.

[lonestarnot]

9. Oh but this is a perfect opportunity to speak to those who ask about the

representation made! Like the wearing a shitty orange piece of tape connected to the back of your coat...people notice ask or say something opening the door!

[paineinthearse]

27. The last post is correct...Orange also represents Ulster.

Being from the Boston area and it (almost) being St. Patty's day, I thought the orange flag symbolized Ulster.



Perhaps you could supplement the flag with leaflets in a a container that people can take.

[Inland]

11. Orange you confusing people?

They probably think you are a Syracuse fan.

[smoogatz]

13. In Wisconsin?

[TankLV]

17. It would be a 2-fer for me then!

[Charon]

22. Orange

Thought he was celebrating William of Orange to rile the Catholic Irish.

[zulchzulu]

12. Orange flag displayed durng St. Patty's Day might be misunderstood

While I agree with you, you might want to take it down on Thursday.

[smoogatz]

14. Not a big Irish Catholic population out here.

I think I'm safe.

[knight_of_the_star]

15. Still a good idea

Could be nasty.

[DemBones DemBones]

16. Yep, people drunk on green beer and pretending to be Irish Catholic

might cause some trouble. Go to Savannah some time for St. Pat's, it's the oldest parade in the country and the party is like Mardi Gras (another Catholic holiday crashed by drunken Protestants.)

:evilgrin:

DB DB

25% Irish, 100% Catholic (and 100% opposed to green beer)

[FightinNewDem]

23. I second the motion

Flying an orange flag on St. Patrick's day is, well, like waving a red flag in front of a bull. It's an invitation for trouble.

In the Six Counties, the display of orange regalia is part and parcel of anti-Catholic bigotry. I strongly suggest that you lose the flag for one day, since it would be construed as offensive.

[flpoljunkie]

21. How about Ukranian orange bracelets embossed "Election Reform Now"

Anybody making these?

[lonestarnot]

30. Tried to order these orange bracelets that said Never Surrender but they

were purple when they got here LOL... Wear it anyway and have given almost all of the rest away.

[progressive_realist]

18. What color or emblem should our pro-democracy "revolution" have?

I was hoping to start a new thread related to this one, but I don't have those privileges yet. Permission to repost as a new thread is granted to anyone who wants to do so.

I think it is a great idea for all those who believe our elections have become fraudulent to adopt a universal color or symbol. But is orange really the best color for us, since it was just used? Perhaps blue, to symbolize blue-staters? Other ideas?

From the New York Times, March 13, 2005:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/13/weekinreview/13vince.html

It took a while, but Lebanon's uprising against the Syrian occupation finally has a color. Some had called it a Rose Revolution - like the one that felled President Eduard Shevardnadze of Georgia in 2003 - because protesters distributed red roses to soldiers. For a moment, it looked poised to possibly be a Candy Cane Revolution, based on the demonstrators' red and white striped scarves.

Now, in the last few days, Lebanon's stirrings have become widely known as a Cedar Revolution, after the tree on the national flag.

Lately, it seems, you can't have a decent political upheaval unless you color it in. The pro-democracy movement that recently swept Ukraine was famously known as the Orange Revolution, after its emblematic hue. When Iraqi voters dipped their fingers in purple ink last month to signify that they had cast their ballots, President Bush declared a Purple Revolution.

<snip>

Karen Beckwith, a political science professor at Wooster College of Ohio and an authority on comparative political movements, thinks that color is a uniquely effective weapon.

"How does the state respond to it?" she asked. "It's very hard to defeat. You can't go around making people take off their clothes. Also, the state can't tell who's organizing it. And it shows incredible solidarity. You know that you're not alone. You don't even need to carry a sign. The person himself or herself is the protest."

<snip>

End excerpt

[cire4]

20. Since red, orange, yellow, and purple have been taken....

it's clear that our color should be blue or green, however blue probably works better with the blue states and all...

[DesEtoiles]

19. kick

[Generator]

24. Cool!

My favorite bumpersticker pre-false election day was "Bush: Let's not elect him this time EITHER."

I was just thinking about this today and realized that my wish came true.

George W. Bush has never been legitmately proved to have been elected president. Sad irony. Between fits of rage, it is something, though. Small and bitter and orange. It's like a sour candy. It's all we have. And my other thought today was, if we can't bring Bush down by 2008 I don't give a crap who is running in 2008. It is discussed ad nauseum here. I want Bush et all proven as the criminals they are.

That's all that will ever give me back whatever illusionary America I once had. Until then, it's just a bad nightmare that never ends.

Wake me in?????????????????

[Robeson]

25. God, everybody down here would think I'm a University of Tennessee...

...fan, and they're mostly Repukes!!...

[foreigncorrespondent]

26. What a good idea!

Here in Australia, next Monday is national day against racism, and everyone is being asked to wear orange. I intend to wear orange, but I would have loved one of those orange flags.

Thanks for posting about this. :)

[styersc]

28. Thank God!!!! I thought that the flag meant you were a Tennessee fan!!!!

Yikes.

[jsw_81]

29. "I believe that John F. Kerry is, in fact, the President."

And I believe you need a reality check. Face it people, Bush is the president and barring a catastrophe he will remain in that role until January 2009. And all the whining, crying, and "orange flags" in the world won't change that. Period.

[lonestarnot]

31. Wouldn't make a pimple on a president's ass, who are you kidding n/t

[Muddy Waters Guitar]

33. I like it, sort of like an Orange Revolution

but here in the U.S. of A. instead of Ukraine. And frankly, there are some similarities if indeed there's fire to go with the exit poll smoke, outside of Yuschenko-style poisoning of the opposition candidate. (No, wait... Kerry was looking sorta ragged there in the last debate.)