DONT TREAD ON ME
I've decided to finally get my first tattoo. It's been a long time coming, simply because I just couldn't decide for sure what I wanted to get first. What, of all the tattoos I'd like to get, would look best by itself or say the most on its own? What would be pleasing to the eye but also hold some meaning to me? Most of the tattoos I want, with a few exceptions, are just eye candy that mean something to my imagination or things that make me happy, but I wanted my first tattoo to actually be something.
So it is I have decided that in no long length of time I will get the rattlesnake and words from the Gadsden Flag tattooed on the inside of my left forearm.
It has always been a little piece of American history that has captivated me - that attitude of early America when people still stood for something and Americans were committed to making something of their country; that something we modern Americans have now completely destroyed.
Benjamin Franklin (or so it is believed), as An American Guesser, once compared with eloquence the rattlesnake to his early America. In short, an Isolationist America that would defend itself without surrender but fight only when provoked and only after having warned the aggressor to stay away. An America that kept its power hidden, unassuming, but fatal if the needs be.
This America has long since faded. America is now a boisterous, pompous group in relation to the outside world; quick to "shock" and "awe," to threaten with nuclear arms and attack without provocation.
So it is that I have chosen this patriotism to mark my skin. I am proud of where I was born but I feel that the only way to help the future of my nation is to look into its past. I must remind myself and others of the men who lead the way and their vision.
Americans can no longer sit by and allow their country to be lead so obnoxiously and with such cavalier a sense of carelessness.
We must be strong. We must stare into the eyes of our constant oppressor - the American Government of today - and say "DON'T TREAD ON ME."
I've decided to finally get my first tattoo. It's been a long time coming, simply because I just couldn't decide for sure what I wanted to get first. What, of all the tattoos I'd like to get, would look best by itself or say the most on its own? What would be pleasing to the eye but also hold some meaning to me? Most of the tattoos I want, with a few exceptions, are just eye candy that mean something to my imagination or things that make me happy, but I wanted my first tattoo to actually be something.
So it is I have decided that in no long length of time I will get the rattlesnake and words from the Gadsden Flag tattooed on the inside of my left forearm.
It has always been a little piece of American history that has captivated me - that attitude of early America when people still stood for something and Americans were committed to making something of their country; that something we modern Americans have now completely destroyed.
Benjamin Franklin (or so it is believed), as An American Guesser, once compared with eloquence the rattlesnake to his early America. In short, an Isolationist America that would defend itself without surrender but fight only when provoked and only after having warned the aggressor to stay away. An America that kept its power hidden, unassuming, but fatal if the needs be.
This America has long since faded. America is now a boisterous, pompous group in relation to the outside world; quick to "shock" and "awe," to threaten with nuclear arms and attack without provocation.
So it is that I have chosen this patriotism to mark my skin. I am proud of where I was born but I feel that the only way to help the future of my nation is to look into its past. I must remind myself and others of the men who lead the way and their vision.
Americans can no longer sit by and allow their country to be lead so obnoxiously and with such cavalier a sense of carelessness.
We must be strong. We must stare into the eyes of our constant oppressor - the American Government of today - and say "DON'T TREAD ON ME."
i'm glad you've finally found something you really want to start off with.
after that, you'll never want to stop...
i want tattoos ;___;