How to be patriotic

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"There is more than one way to respond to the horror of Sept. 11. And there 
is more than one kind of patriotism. We forget this. You do not have to rally 
around Bush and tolerate Cheney's chthonic creepiness and wave a frantic flag 
and believe every scripted half-truth that drizzles out of the Pentagon, 
applaud the nonstop attacks on an already demolished nation. Pro-America does 
not mean pro-war. Or pro-Bush. Or anti-Afghanistan. Or 
pro-little-flags-on-SUV-antennas. It means thinking independently and getting 
better informed and filtering your news very carefully and realizing that 
just because one version of the American aggro attitude is currently being 
ramrodded down society's throat doesn't mean you have to swallow." So writes 
SF Gate Columnist Mark Morford. 
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2001/10/19/notes101901.DTL

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