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Thread #66805   Message #1300861
Posted By: Amos
19-Oct-04 - 02:56 PM
Thread Name: BS: in God he trust?
Subject: RE: BS: in God he trust?
We are happy with our culture and have no desire to change, and we really don't care how you did things where you came from. This is
OUR COUNTRY, our land, and our lifestyle. Our First Amendment gives every citizen the right to express his opinion and we will allow you every opportunity to do so! ...


This sounds pretty reactionary and close-minded to me. I for one am not perfectly happy with "how we do things" in the good old USA -- for one thing I cannot believe that we have had public education in this country for as long as we have -- since the late nineteenth century?-- and still produce such a rabid flock of illiterate jingoists and chauvinistic rabble-rousers, the kind of people who a few decades back would have been carrying otrches in a lynching parade.

If the author thinks that this is an example of tolerating free speech then I feel sorry for those who still believe we have some ideals guiding the country. This is just ill-mannered redneck hate-mongering.


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