So the "orange" magnetic ribbon--what does it stand for?

[BlueIris]

I've seen ribbons in a lot of different colors on cars these days--blue and sometimes white for peace and non-violence, yellow for "supporting" the troops, pink for breast cancer and even black for election fraud awareness. But--orange? Bright, tangerine orange? Saw one yesterday on the back of a police van. Does anyone know what the significance of that one is?

[LisaM]

1. I don't know, but I wouldn't touch orange - color of the Orange Order

I won't wear it or even have it in the house, except for pumpkins, which I can carve up.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

2. uh... Halloween? Scotland Forever? dunno eom

[tanyev]

3. Republicans headed to prison?

[gauguin57]

4. Eat more beta-karotene!

Support our beta-karotene!

[skids]

5. Red for "Support our Oops"? n/t

[sniffa]

6. I SUPPORT CHEETOS

[txindy]

23. Okay, that just made me LOL

Thank you!

[valerief]

7. I Love Orange

Got it painted in different rooms in my house. I loved it before Homeland Security stole it, and I refuse to give it to them.

Maybe the orange magnet means support Homeland Security's FEMA or some such craziness. Support the Terrorists, perhaps????

[ohio_liberal]

8. It probably isn't the same thing as I'm thinking...

...since it was on a police car--but, people the US started wearing orange in solidarity with Ukrainian Presidential candidate Yushchenko and his party, especially when the voter fraud in the US was uncovered. People were handing out orange ribbons to wear on their clothing at the hearings in Columbus that Mr. Conyers held. And there were people dressed in orange as well. I think Debbie Wasserman-Schultz wore orange quite a bit at that time, and a few others that I can't remember.


edited for typo, etc.

[Occulus]

10. You would be correct

per a Google search.

[Norquist Nemesis]

13. Did you see this one?

(also posted link below)

http://www.personalizedcause.com/guide/orange.html

[insane_cratic_gal]

22. I still have my orange ribbon

pinned on my jackets.

[ohio_liberal]

24. Me too!

It's pinned to one of my winter coats.

[liberal N proud]

9. I don't know but I saw a Support the troops ribbon last night that

made me sick.
It was a yellow Support our troops ribbon with GET-R-DONE in bold letters in the middle.

[RebelOne]

15. I have a Support our troops. Bring them home sticker.

Then I have two ribbons. One reads: U.S. out of Iraq and the other Bring them home.

[Norquist Nemesis]

11. hmmmm....could be this

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0613/p07s02-wome.html
TEL AVIV – Chanting "the king is blind'' over the rhythm of drums, students who oppose Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and the northern West Bank tied orange ribbons on passersby along a busy shopping district to show solidarity with Jewish settlers who are slated for evacuation. ...

or any of these:
http://www.personalizedcause.com/shop/collections/perso...

Cultural Diversity

Feral Cats

Hunger

Leukemia
(alternate color: Green)

Lupus
(alternate color: Purple)

Melanoma
(alternate color: Black)

Motorcycle Safety

Racial Tolerance

Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome
(RSDS)

Self Injury

Take your pick!

[WA98296]

12. I think its the "I Listen to Randi Rhodes" ribbon!

[Child_Of_Isis]

14. yellow for "supporting" the troops

Noooo...that's for yellow elephant.

[9119495]

16. Orange ribbons are for your support of people putting ribbons

of various colors on their cars. It's a "meta-ribbon."

[VolcanoJen]

17. Go Bengals!

That's all I could come up with.

[jojog]

18. University of Tennessee Vols

[glitch]

19. Probably against election fraud. Orange is the traditional color of

free elections - that's why the Ukrainians used it for their protest.

Edit to add: orange ribbon was used to protest the 2000 election theft, maybe because it cumulated in FL.

[abluelady]

21. Ding Ding Ding Ding

You got it right. It is to show support of voting rights.

[MsUSA]

20. It's the sign of the Protestant religion as noted on the Irish flag.....

Green being the Catholic portion.

The colors of the Irish flag have no official meaning but many legends have risen to account for the colors. One of them states that the Green stripe is represents Catholics, the Orange represents Protestants and the white stripe symbolizes the peace between them. Another one states the orange color is associated with the Protestants in Ulster and those that derived from William III who defeated the Irish Catholics at the Battle of the Boyne in the late 1600s. It was included in the Irish flag in an attempt to reconcile the Protestants with the Irish independence movement.

edited to add this Irish flag meaning.