On 2003-03-10 09:31:00, Anonymous wrote:
" It's funny that you mock the very freedom that was given to you by soldiers who have died for our country. I am currently 27 years old and have fought for this counrty :smile: and people like yourseleve who don't always agree with the government. You are only human and your voice is what makes you unique. Now that I have said that remember the blanket of FREEDOM for which I and other soldiers provide keeps you safe. SO with all due RESPECT YOU CAN CALL ME DADDY. "
Buddy, I respect and appreciate what you're willing to do for our country. But I think you've been given bad orders. I don't know which actions you've been involved in, but our political leaders have been sending you guys out to kill and die for frivilous causes for decades. They're not making us safer. They're making us less safe in every way.
It's coming down to the point fairly quickly, thanks to the famous Büsh family jingoism, when soldiers and civilians alike are going to have to choose between allegience to the US Empire and allegience to America. Blind allegience is not respect, brother.

"Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will [America's] heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own."
--John Quincy Adams, Speech to the U.S. House of Representatives [July 4, 1821]
Hear me people: We now have to deal with another race - small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough they have a mind to till the soil and the love of possessions is a disease with them. These people have made many rules which the rich may break but the poor may not. They take their tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule.
http://www.powersource.com/gallery/people/sittbull.html' target='_new'>Chief Sitting Bull, speaking at the Powder River Conference, 1877