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[Justin Schwartz]

Norman Thomas used to say, wash the flag, don't burn it. We all mourn those 
who were murdered in this appalling and awful act. However, that doesn't 
mean we should let the cynical creeps who ruke us use our shock and dismsay 
as an opportunity to rush through a long-wished for program of repression 
and war. Nothing Leo says surprises me any more, butI am really amazed at 
Max, saying that we should give thae authorities the benefit of the doubt 
because this is a crisis. Why should we trust the people who screwed up this 
bad, and who have never given us the slightest reason to think that they 
could be trusted with managing a rural fire department, much less a 
superpower, the benefit of any doubt? I do not think that, if we are 
respectful, a certain degree of skepticism will marginalize the lefta ny 
more than it is already marginalized. I am actually moderately encouraged; I 
think that people want to get the terrorists, but not kill a lot of 
innocents. --jks


>
>no doubt. i am going to hang a flag on my door right next to the Langston
>Hughes poem, "Let America Be America Again".  who said patriotism was about
>"America right or wrong". take that flag back and make it ours too. that's
>what we did during Gulf War protests.
>
>
>At 05:08 AM 9/17/01 -1000, Stephen E Philion wrote:
>
>
>>---Actually, it's wrong for you to suggest that people who are not
>>supporting the war mongering rhetoric of Bush and Congress are less
>>American than you are for letting your daughter put a flag in the window.
>>Or that the grieving who don't join the war chorus are not real
>>Americans...
>

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