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Hating war = anti-American?

Posted by Connoisseur on 2010-March-09 08:27:49 EST, Tuesday
In reply to For all you anti-American war haters posted by Trucker on 2010-March-08 06:27:37 EST, Monday

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You lost me there.

Let's examine your statements more closely.

"...whose sons are in Iraq right now. They are there... rather to escape life in a Flour Mill town or to have some stability after being laid off from two jobs in just seven months."

Now we come to the crux of the matter. You yourself just stated the reason why so many AMERICANS are against the war: Congress has allowed the weapons industry to loot the Treasury, at the expense of the working class.

What is America?

Is it the land? Not really; 30% of the planet is land.

Is it the government? No, the government (ostensibly) exists to serve the people; we created it to perform certain functions for us all.

Is it the people? Every nation has people. We are Americans, but we are not "America."

America is an ideal, a vision, a goal for which we strive:
"...with liberty and justice for all."

Justice is not served by undermining the economy to the point where the only real job security is found in working for the government itself.

Justice is not served by denying health care to the young and unemployed, so that they turn to the military for the health care that was priced out of their reach by the private sector.

Justice is not served by incarcerating the young, the poor, and the non-white for possession of cannabis, when we have had 3 pot-smoking presidents in a row.

Justice is not served in scaring the public into surrendering their civil rights and civil liberties, by broadcasting stories of pedophiles, drug dealers, and terrorists to distract them from the fact that their country is being stolen from them.

Justice is not served when the Supreme Court of the United States of America elects a president whom the public did not want, simply because the majority of the court is Republican.

Justice is not served when one voice owns every television and radio station in America, and all of the daily newspapers, while the other side makes do with a soapbox on the corner.

Justice is not served when citizens must choose between health care and food, or in some cases, their homes.

Justice is not served when a year's supply of medicine, manufactured in Hungary, can be purchased in Europe for less than a week's supply of the same medicine, made in the same factory, costs you here.

Justice is not served when the independent businessman, including you truckers probably, is being forced out of existence by unscrupulous corporations against whom no honest man can compete.

Justice is not served when our children are being segregated from everyone who is not of their own age so that they grow with no other viewpoint, or basis of comparison, than that of those who indoctrinate them, slowly and methodically and inexorably crushing the rebelliousness and independence and yes, the very souls, out of them, turning them into mindless consumers who are barely better than automatons.

Justice is not served by giving the people scapegoats at whom their righteous anger can be misdirected, whether the scapegoats are
childlovers or any other minority group.

Yet you call the people, cut from the same cloth as the independent-minded freedom lovers who founded this country, anti-American?
They are better Americans than an ignorant flagwaver will ever be.


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