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Put Away the Flags
Posted by Dave Email on 07/04/06 at 08:13:52 am
Categories: Political Ravings

Howard Zinn: Put Away the Flags:

On this July 4, we would do well to renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed.

Is not nationalism -- that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder -- one of the great evils of our time, along with racism, along with religious hatred?

These ways of thinking -- cultivated, nurtured, indoctrinated from childhood on -- have been useful to those in power, and deadly for those out of power. ...

Go read the entire thing.

****UPDATE****: More from Howard Zinn: Patriotism and the Fourth of July


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Comment from: Roland [Visitor] 07/07/06 @ 07:50 PermalinkPermalink
sick.
Comment from: jfolkerts [Visitor] 07/07/06 @ 10:13 PermalinkPermalink
Hey Roland, concerning Dave's blogs, isn't it amazing that liberal socialists will do anything to uphold spitting on the flag and see it trashed in the public arena, but mess with their government funding of art exhibits that showcase fetuses in urine, and watch them go balistic. Talk about misplaced priorities.
They won't defend America or the flag, but man, they will defend the wacko teacher ranting about Bush being another Hitler or go to the mat to save a prairie rat all the while wiping out the 5 farmers who live on that land who need to produce an income to feed their kids.
They literally have thrown commonsense out the window and show their continual idiocy in statements like the one we are commenting on.
I actually fell into this blog by accident and have enjoyed reading the insanity of Dave's points, I assume you do too - just when you think he has gone far off the deep end, he surprises me with taking another step into an even deeper abyss.
Comment from: Dave [Member] Email · http://www.mindfulmission.com 07/07/06 @ 12:37 PermalinkPermalink
Hey Roland, concerning Dave's blogs, isn't it amazing that liberal socialists will do anything to uphold spitting on the flag and see it trashed in the public arena, but mess with their government funding of art exhibits that showcase fetuses in urine, and watch them go balistic. Talk about misplaced priorities.
You truly have no idea about me, do you.

First of all, your above statement makes little sense. Both instances above have to do with freedom of expression. And typically liberals would uphold one's right to both spit on the flag and showcase fetuses in urine. So what is your point?

Second of all...what the hell does that have to do with this post?

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