How to be patriotic

[barbara100 at jps.net]

I bet he read Gravity's Rainbow.
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To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 12:27 AM
Subject: How to be patriotic


> "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
>
>