Gadsden

The Gadsden Society is a non-partisan, non-profit, public advocacy group, fighting for the preservation and expansion of individual liberty throughout Colorado.
We monitor bills pending in the state legislature and advocate on behalf of legislation that expands individual liberty and fight against legislation that contracts it
We are “The Liberty Lobby.”

Who Was Gadsden?

Christopher Gadsden was an American Revolutionary War general and statesman from South Carolina.

According to South Carolina state congressional records, General Gadsden:

“Presented to the Congress an elegant standard, such as is to be used by the commander in chief of the American navy; being a yellow field, with a lively representation of a rattle-snake in the middle, in the attitude of going to strike, and these words underneath, ‘Don’t Tread on Me!’”

Gadsden’s flag looks like this:

We get our name from the Gadsden flag,

and have adapted it for our logo.

2010 Legislative Watch

As the Denver Post reports, “Major metro grower jailed,” federal agents have asserted their authority, primacy and superiority over its mere subjects in the district of Colorado.
I say “district,” because states have rights. Districts are mere political subdivisions of, and exist at the whim of, the larger federal government.

Lest there be any doubt, Special Agent Jeffrey Sweetin, who is in charge of the DEA’s office in Denver, was very clear:
“Technically, every dispensary in the state is in blatant violation of federal law. The time is coming when we go into a dispensary, we find out what their profit is, we seize the building and we arrest everybody.

In a polite, reasoned manner, tell the feds you do not appreciate them stepping into a Colorado law enforcement matter. Tell them if they have enough time and money to spend usurping Colorado’s sovereignty to enforce federal policy, they have too much time and money.