Ted, you must have been sleeping while taking American history. Look up Boston Tea Party.......true Americans did not take lightly "taxation without representation". They spoke up and fired the shot that was heard round the world.
Actually I was wide awake during my U.S. History classes. The "shot heard round the world" wasn't the Boston Tea Party. It was Lexington and Concord, which was a year and a half later, and to this day the debate continues over who fired that first shot.
And I bet you were a real ballbuster. The tea party led to the shot that was heard round the world and my point was that American objection to the unreasonable actions of our then gov't led to the forming of an independent nation.......America, the Beautiful, under God, one nation indivisible.
Questioning your gov't is as American as apple pie and motherhood.
Well OK, it's American, but technically it isn't "patriotism."
More importantly, its not unpatriotic.
Conservatives often wonder why there are references made between them, and Hitler.
Where are the concentration camps? (Don't tell me Gitmo is Auschwitz.)
Rome wasn't built in a day.
Where is the American-sponsored genocide?
True.......the extremists haven't taken charge. And that may never happen but a little fascism is still a problem.
The American-sponsored racism?
Mostly gone.
The new American "colonies" established by the war on terrorism?
Samoa, Puerto Rico, Iraq and Afghanistan.
While our attention is being focused on these so-called "crimes against humanity," the real animals (Saddam, Kim Jong-Il, Hamas) are getting free passes.
Please define free passes? I don't understand your point.
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