Don't Tread on Me

This news article is about a man, Andy McDonel, who put up a flag in front of his house in Arizona. It is a 3x5 yellow flag that reads “Don’t Tread on Me,” with a serpent coiling above it. The neighbors who saw this flag were obvously offended and called the Home Owner’s Association to take care of the issue. McDonel put up this flag as a representation of all our founding fathers have done for our country. The Home Owners Association on the other hand, does not believe that the flag stands for anything significant. They are claiming that the flag, “doesn’t fit [their] rules” (Webb). McDonel has no intention of taking the flag down because he thinks it is a symbol of patriarchy. He plans to leave the flag up and do whatever it takes to show he is not in the wrong.