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To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (135048)	5/31/2004 3:27:43 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 281500

<his latest anti-American diatribe is > Anti-American? Get a grip Dennis. Because an American disagrees with you doesn't make him anti-American. Or UnAmerican. There isn't a specification kept in a weights and measures standards room somewhere which defines American. Whatever the collective attitude is at any particular time is ipso facto the definition of American. That collective attitude changes as individuals shift their position. The attitude isn't handed down from on high by a King, Emperor or Dictator. The attitude is defined by each individual. The most basic definition would be that there is no definition other than the freedom to express opinions and vote one's own will. American is having one's own opinion. Slavery was as American as apple pie at one time. McCarthyism at another. Women as chattels for a long time, only being allowed to vote last century and still seeking equality in recent decades. Claiming a monopoly on Americanism is laughable. Americanism is an eclectic chatter of conflicting and widely various interests and ideas. Declaring somebody AntiAmerican, announcing victory and leaving the debate is weak and UnAmerican. Mqurice