[Vision2020] A "Peace" of Grass---featuring a GI in Iraq

[Matt Decker]

Chas

Does that mean you love me too?

Ps what the hell do you know about me? Not a damn thing you have no/little 
clue about my political stance. Just assumptions again speaking out of a 
jackass mouth.


>From: Chasuk <chasuk at gmail.com>
>To: "Matt Decker" <mattd2107 at hotmail.com>
>CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] A "Peace" of Grass---featuring a GI in Iraq
>Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 21:10:56 -0700
>
>On 5/31/06, Matt Decker <mattd2107 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Curiousty speaking, am I also a cheesy dude for having a flag flown
>>everyday? Let alone my cheesy magnet stuck to my truck, and a Marine
>>sticker? Wouldn't any sticker stuck to a car be cheesy in your mind?
>
>>From my perspective, you are a cheesy dude.  My mother-in-law has a
>similar magnet stuck to her vehicle, and she actually knitted
>(crocheted?)  some cheesy patriotic doohickey, but I love her
>regardless.  You might be a nice guy, but I can almost guarantee that
>I would find your politics cloyingly naive.
>
>I'm glad to be a USian, probably as much as (or more than) you are
>glad to be a USian.  However, I'm not proud to be a USian, and therein
>lies the difference between us.  I abhor any suggestion that that I,
>or anyone, is somehow "Un-American" by failing to wallow in
>conspicuous displays of patriotism.  The very word "Un-American" is
>ugly and xenophobic.  Belgians don't refer to less patriotic Belgians
>as "Un-Belgian."  That particular, hideous construction is purely
>Usian.
>
>Über-patriots, to me, are the same as any other type of zealot.  They
>might differ by degree, but they are still scary folks.  Fred Phelps
>is a zealot.  Hitler was a zealot.  Grand Inquisitors were zealots.
>The 9/11 bombers were zealots.  Sinn Féin are zealots.  They all scare
>me.
>
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