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“The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God damn America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people,” he said in a 2003 sermon. “God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.”
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I will vote for the candidate that promotes our national interests and that their opinion of our nation does matter.
And the good rev doesn't have the same ego problem?
********The protagonist of the story is a (fictional) young United States Army lieutenant named Philip Nolan, who developed a friendship with the visiting Aaron Burr. When Burr is tried for treason (as he actually was in 1807), Nolan was tried as an accomplice. During his testimony, Nolan bitterly renounced his nation, angrily shouting “Damn the United States! I wish I may never hear of the United States again!” (When the novel was first published, the word “damn” was considered too obscene for publication.) Upon conviction, the judge icily granted Nolan his wish: he was to spend the rest of his life on warships of the United States Navy, in exile, with no right to ever again set foot on U.S. soil, and with no mention ever again made to him about his country.
The sentence is carried out to the letter. For the rest of his life, Nolan is transported from ship to ship, living his life out as a prisoner on the high seas, never once being allowed back in a home port. None of the sailors in whose custody Nolan remains are allowed speak to him about the U.S., and his newspapers are censored.********
The above excerpt from the aforementioned book, THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY, would be a good punishment for a person who hates America and chooses to damn Her.