How to be patriotic

[David Morris]

The untrue implication of the columnist's words below is that if you wave a 
flag and approve of this administrations actions thus far that you are a 
gullible sheep, not able to think independently or filter the news you 
receive.  This does fit with Millison's (and I guess JBFRAME's) attitude 
toward people that are not opposed to the present course of action.  The 10% 
minority who are just so obviously (to themselves) so much smarter than the 
90% rest of us, they are blind to their own arrogance.

Jeeze Louise!  It must be agonizing to be so smart yet so impotent, like 
Cassandra, wouldn't you say?

David Morris

>From: JBFRAME at aol.com
>
>"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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