From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sun Apr 13 2003 - 12:09:19 MDT
Damien Sullivan wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 04:27:35PM -0700, Mike Lorrey wrote:
>
>
>>the duck se is. Since 78% of Americans fully support Bush's policy on
>>Iraq, you are expressing your opposition to the opinion of more than
>>3/4 of the American people. Since that is more than enough of a
>>supermajority to amend our own constitution, it should be a given that
>>if you are against the policy we Americans agree with by such a large
>>margin, then you are against us, ergo anti-American.
>
This sort of comment is precisely why I don't read Mr. Lorrey's
post except indirectly. An equal percentage believe Satan is
real and a larger percentage believe in angels and the
afterlife. Does this mean that it is anti-American to
disbelieve these things? Of course not.
America is supposed to be about the right and responsibility to
follow your own best understanding and conscience. There is not
one thing in the founding documents of this country that claim
it is anti-American to disagree with any current government
policy. As a matter of fact, the eternal vigilance that is the
price of freedom must always be applied to our own government.
The founders very much understood this. Most of us
unfortuantely, apparently do not.
- samantha
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