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Posted by Raven on June 17th, 2006
“A lot of pandering started going on, and you’d see soldiers and the American flag in every video. It became a sickening display of ultra-patriotism.”
“The entire country may disagree with me, but I don’t understand the necessity for patriotism,” Maines resumes, through gritted teeth. “Why do you have to be a patriot? About what? This land is our land? Why? You can like where you live and like your life, but as for loving the whole country… I don’t see why people care about patriotism.”
DyXie Chych bYtch
June 18th, 2006 at 4:45 am
I posted on this subject in another blog yesterday. I am feeling lazy, not yet having had my morning cuppa tea, so im just going to copy-paste it here:
Because, while patriotism is good, blind patriotism is not. Patriotism is dedication to the interests of America, and to the princibles on which it was founded. To the constitution. To every detail of its culture – and the willingness to uphold those values via the democratic process.
Blind patriotism is reciting the national antham and looking down on everyone outside the US. It is campaigning to ban flag-burning because it is anti-american without even considering the ideal of free speech that flag represents. It is voting against anyone you hear called ‘un-american’ without thinking. It is the attitude of ‘The President is Always Right,’ and of of polarised worldview reducing everyone to either American or Ignorant Savage.
June 18th, 2006 at 3:11 pm
SR- NO the Dyxie chYx are using this war to get attention, to sell CD’s, to make money. They could care less about patriotism. Trust me on this.
I boycotted their crappy music a long time ago.