http://www.911pins.com/pins.html
Early in the week I got some SPAM about another one of these outfits that is even more egregious in hawking all sorts of pricy pins and flags. For the true American patriot, I believe that Macy's has jewel-encrusted (but maybe just rhinestone) flag pins.
Peter Kosenko
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Carl Remick" <carlremick at hotmail.com> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:54:52
>>From: "Tom Wheeler" <twbounds at pop.mail.rcn.net>
>>
>>http://www.lipmagazine.org/
>>Patriotism as Pathology
>>Blue, Red, and Whitewash
>>
>>by Tim Wise
>>
>>... It may just be that new realities require new symbols, new concepts,
>>and new
>>slogans. For those of us who seek peace with justice, in the Middle East or
>>right here at home, that means giving up the fight for the flag, and
>>instead
>>engaging in the more meaningful struggle for the soul of America. While not
>>denigrating the flag, or ridiculing those who find value and virtue in
>>patriotism, we should yet not be fooled into believing that we have the
>>power to turn patriotic chants into something other than what they are: a
>>dangerous projection of nationalistic machismo, likely to precede more
>>bombing, more retaliation, and more death.
>
>Amen.
>
>Carl
>
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