Posted on 08/23/2011 5:45:32 AM PDT by Woodland
To the modern Democratic National Committee, the mainstream media and other “progressive” outfits such as the American Civil Liberties Union and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the words “patriot” and “patriotism” have become synonymous with “right-wing extremism.”
It’s little wonder why. Context is everything. When your point of view originates from so far out in the leftosphere that it takes the Hubble Space Telescope to spot the center of our political universe, Mom, God and apple pie tend to look like fiery comets hurling toward your bugged-out, bohemian planetoid.
Exhibit A? Liberals’ mouth-frothing hatred of the Tea Party and the constitutionalist principles for which it stands. Mark Potok, Huffington Post columnist and spokesweasel for the hard-left SPLC, sneeringly refers to the Tea Party as the “Patriot movement” and mendaciously warns that its supporters are “shot through with rich veins of radical ideas, conspiracy theories and racism.” Harrumph!
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Ron Paul:
“Patriotism is more closely linked to dissent than it is to conformity and a blind desire for safety and security.
Understanding the magnificent rewards of a free society makes us unbashful in its promotion, fully realizing that maximum wealth is created and the greatest chance for peace comes from a society respectful of individual liberty”.”
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Ditto.
Matt Barber is always a very interesting read. He’s been in the belly of the beast.
Wasn’t it the other side that always says “Dissent is patriotic?”
Ha Ha.
Good read.
Ah yes— you are right.But only if it is their people in the street dissenting against what has been established in this Christian America. Anything anti-Christ —or counter to what was established in our American system they consider patriotic dissent. The proof is in the puddin. Their love of Country is defined by their hatred of our Religion and Morality.
The comments at the end of the article clearly show how out of touch the lib wing really is. They are so perverse that they think they are espousing main stream views. Unbelievable, what a sad sad state of affairs.....
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