To: ChrisJP who wrote (5581 ) 3/30/2003 7:34:07 PM From: Just_Observing Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 21614 Your insults mean nothing, JustObserving. As does your purported patriotism that you wear so proudly all over. You prove the old adage that patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. And the nattering nitwit. Because you are both. And more. The web sites you post from hate freedom; they hate prosperity. You must have enormous talents as a mind reader. Perhaps, never having a mind of your own helps. What proof can you provide?The Internet, was created by funding from the United States Department of Defense. The simplest punctuation evades you. That must qualify you to speak with authority on what is American or not.Most of the technologies you use to communicate on the Internet -- the PC, databases, e-mail, the Web Browser, and so on, were created with funding from the Unites States Government. Or by big USA companies like IBM, Intel, and Microsoft. Pat yourself on your back for reaching a new level of triteness, Sherlock. Ever the nattering nitwit.So by using the Internet, using your PC, using this web site, you are paying tribute and appreciation to the country and people that made it all possible -- The United States of America. And you by trying to silence opposing viewpoints bring only shame and dishonor to America. How shallow is your faith in America that you are so threatened by opposing viewpoints? And what little faith have you in its institutions that they can't stand criticism?Nice to see you're for genocide too That you should joke about genocide shows your true colors. Stop embarrassing yourself and America on this forum with your blind opposition and hatred to anyone with an opposing viewpoint. America can handle much more than you imagine. After all, it tolerates you. Even nurtures you. Be a true patriot. Educate yourself on what patriotism means. And elementary punctuation, too. After all, we don't want the world to think America is full of uneducated bigots. Especially in Washington where you reside. To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, " Our country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation. Mark Twain"There has never been a just one, never an honorable one--on the part of the instigator of the war. I can see a million years ahead, and this rule will never change in so many as half a dozen instances. The loud little handful--as usual--will shout for the war. The pulpit will-- warily and cautiously--object--at first; the great, big, dull bulk of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes and try to make out why there should be a war, and will say, earnestly and indignantly, "It is unjust and dishonorable, and there is no necessity for it." Then the handful will shout louder. A few fair men on the other side will argue and reason against the war with speech and pen, and at first will have a hearing and be applauded; but it will not last long; those others will outshout them, and presently the anti-war audiences will thin out and lose popularity. Before long you will see this curious thing: the speakers stoned from the platform, and free speech strangled by hordes of furious men who in their secret hearts are still at one with those stoned speakers--as earlier-- but do not dare to say so. And now the whole nation--pulpit and all-- will take up the war-cry, and shout itself hoarse, and mob any honest man who ventures to open his mouth; and presently such mouths will cease to open. Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." Mark Twain