"It looks a little bit like it, but it's not an American flag as far as the flag code is concerned. "So one could argue that the so-called ‘gang symbol’ isn't really an American flag in the meaning of the code itself," he said. Ansoff pointed to the first section of the code which stipulated that the "the flag of the United States shall be 13 horizontal stripes, alternate red and white and the union of the flag shall be forty-eight stars, white in a blue field." (New states have been added since then, bringing the number of stars to 50.) So as far as the code is concerned, the black and white flag with the blue stripe in the middle is not in violation.Īdditionally, Ansoff told PolitiFact that the blue, white and black flag in the post is not technically an American flag. The second discrepancy Ansoff pointed out is that the Facebook post tacks on the words "including discoloration." Discoloration is not prohibited by the flag code, as the Facebook post claims. The Facebook post fails to observe this change. While the Flag Code used to be under Title 36, it was re-codified in 1998, according to the Congressional Research Service. The first, he said, was that the post notes the incorrect administrative citation for the actual flag code. Peter Ansoff is president of the North American Vexillological Association, an organization that bills itself as the "world’s largest organization of flag enthusiasts and scholars." Vexillology is the study of flags.Īnsoff told PolitiFact in a phone interview that there are two key discrepancies with the post. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) The June 14 post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. "The flag should never have placed on it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture or drawing of any nature (including discoloration)," the post continued. The post incorrectly cites section 176 (located in Title 36) as the portion of the code that it claims the black and white flag violates. flag resembles the American flag, except it bears black and white stripes with the stars affixed to a black background. The basic design for the American flag was adopted at the. The adoption by the pornography industry in the sixties of XXX to signify ‘hard’ porn – yes, Virginia there was such a thing as ‘soft’ porn before the Facebook post showing a side-by-side comparison of the American flag and a flag used to express support for police officers refers to the latter as a "gang symbol," and implies it violates the U.S. The flag had thirteen alternating red and white stripes and thirteen stars set in a circle against a blue field. So XXX meant hard liquor – the real stuff. Because XXX was probably on bottles of real gin from Amsterdam, there was the borrowing of a recognizable trademark – remember many were still illiterate and needed simple signs like XXX. At some point the XXX became a marker or warning for strong (possibly fatal) liquor, maybe when ‘bathtub gin’ was being made in the depression. The flag’s width-to-length ratio is 10 to 19. The 50 stars stand for the 50 states of the union, and the 13 stripes stand for the original 13 states. Also gin had a bad reputation from the ‘gin mills’ in England, where men, women and children drank to tremendous excess, as life was tough and gin was super cheap, as it was not taxed for a time it was the crack cocaine of its day.Īlso gin was made with turpentine and/or sulphuric acid (look it up!) and it had a real kick to it. national flag consisting of white stars (50 since July 4, 1960) on a blue canton with a field of 13 alternating stripes, 7 red and 6 white. First you need to know that the Dutch invented gin or ‘jenever’ or ‘genever’ from where we get today’s Geneva Gin. So today I think I figured out the link of XXX in Amsterdam’s flag to XXX use in the English world.
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