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Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
Where in hell did you get that cock eyed definition? That has never been the American way and I doubt if it ever will be.
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Unfortunately some people will run around waving the flag in hyperactivity to prove their patriotism. Same type people are what Hitler needed to kill Jews and anyone else promoted as inferior (ie gyspies). Flag waving will inspire the mentally naive to, for example, follow a lying president into invading another sovereign nation. Flag waving is what most struck the investigators on Watergate hearings. In Watergate, they couldn't be concerned with understanding basic facts such as the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Even Nixon before the Supreme Court tried to claim he was a sovereign leader like the King of England. In Iraq, an American president would outrightly lie about WMD, provided no supporting facts, and the same 'flagwavers' would promote and support an illegal and unprovoked war. Those 'self described' patriots can be a threat to the nation. As leming, they can be manipulated. Lemings definitely are not American patriots.
History is full of great American patriots. They don't make conclusions based upon flag waving. They are too smart to, for example, use the pathetic Daily News or local gosip Action News as infomation sources. Instead real Patriots learn facts before making decisions.
It is unknown whether the DARPA futures market idea had merit. But demonstrated is that classic anti-Americans opposed it that day because, by definition, they could not bother to first learn the facts. Myopic morality was all the proof they needed.
Flag waving does not create intelligence nor prove patriotism. Flag waving can identify a mentally blind and naive follower. ""Kill the bastards. They don't think like we have always thought; therefore must be evil."" A problem that innovators must often face - the anti-American who does not first learn and therefore fears change while hyping the flag.
Name any great American in history. He is always an innovator. Essential to the definition of an American patriot. Surprising how many so hate America as to think their emotions are sufficient to judge that DARPA terrorist market idea. But then many still never really learned what makes a patriotic American.