4th of July Hypocricy (was: OT Celebration)

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblake_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Wed Jul 4 12:15:28 2001

Imagine having a neighbor kid hear "Star Spangled Banner" and ask "what song
is that?" - and he went to a PRIVATE school.

-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
-> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of R. D. Davis
-> Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 11:15 AM
-> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
-> Subject: 4th of July Hypocricy (was: OT Celebration)
->
->
-> On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Sellam Ismail wrote:
-> > Oops, sorry. My government class in 12th grade was a joke.
-> The students
-> > open challenged the teacher to fist fights during class and routinely
-> > spoke over him, carrying on their own conversations. Subsequently, I
-> > apparently didn't learn much.
->
-> Apparently you received the same basic education, with regards to
-> history, that, or better than, most of our politicians received. I
-> recon that if most of our politicrats were asked what such concepts as
-> freedom and liberty mean, or what the objectives of the founding
-> fathers were, one would just get a response like "huh?" or "I don't
-> think that I understand the question."
->
-> *** The Truth about the 4th of July in America ***
->
-> The 4th of July in America has degenerated into a big hypocritical
-> joke. People are out celebrating just to celebrate, not giving a damn
-> about the revolution and related ideas that they're supposedly
-> celebrating. Our pea-brained, tax-hungry, freedom and liberty opposed
-> politicians have the audacity to ride in 4th of July parades where
-> foolish people cheer them on instead of booing them and tossing rotten
-> eggs, or worse, at them.
->
-> The 4th of July holiday is now all about nationalism, not patriotism,
-> as flag waving loonies cheer on their tyrannical oppressors.
->
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-> other animals:
-> All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're
-> above Nature &
-> rdd_at_rddavis.net 410-744-4900 her other creatures, using dogma
-> to justify such
-> http://www.rddavis.net beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.
->
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