[Vision2020] Donovan, Canadians ARE Americans!, Ellen,

[Donovan Arnold]

Hansie,

I never claimed you were Anti-American. But your weekly and daily reminders you wore a uniform and need to say you aren't makes we wonder if your aren't hidding something. 

It is a patriotic thing to voice opposition to your leadership when it is wrong with your fellow citizens. 

But it is another thing to promote activities abroad that support assault and insult on the office of the President of the United States, or disrespect for our country and the people in it--even if you dislike the President and are at odds politically with the majority of your countrymen and women.  Which is what you are doing by promoting anti-American, or Anti-USIANS, for those who don't understand it has multi-meanings, protests and demonstations against our political leadership. 
 

Best Regards,

Donovan


--- On Sun, 12/21/08, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:

> From: Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com>
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Donovan, Canadians ARE Americans!, Ellen,
> To: "Chasuk" <chasuk at gmail.com>, donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com, vision2020 at moscow.com
> Date: Sunday, December 21, 2008, 2:00 PM
> I am only going to say this once.
> 
> I am not, repeat AM NOT, anti-American, no matter how
> inclusive or 
> exclusive you apply the term "American".
> 
> I was not anti-American as a member of the Students for a
> Democratic 
> Society (SDS) during my high school years.  The opposite of
> "love" is 
> not "hate", but "apathy".
> 
> I was not anti-American when I served my country in uniform
> for twenty 
> years.
> 
> Although I despise (more like "hate") all that
> our current president has 
> done to harm this country of mine, I am not now, nor will I
> ever be, anti-
> American.
> 
> As one author so aptly stated, "I love my country, but
> fear my government 
> [at least until January 20th]."
> 
> The claim that I am unpatriotic and un-American by an
> individual that 
> NEVER wore a uniform a day in his life extends beyond the
> pale and any 
> semblance of human decency.
> 
> ENOUGH SAID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 13:12, Donovan Arnold
> > <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:\
> > 
> > > There are plenty of people in the United States
> AND Canada AND Mexico 
> AND in everyone of
> the South and Central American countries that are
> anti-American.
> > 
> > > There are at least a 1/2 dozen right here on the
> V.
> > 
> > There are things that I don't like about myself,
> but I am not
> > anti-Chas.  There are things that I dislike about
> Moscow, but I am not
> > anti-Moscow.
> > 
> > Land of the free, home of the brave, but don't
> criticize it, because
> > it makes you anti-American.
> > 
> > I love the US, and I imagine those 1/2 dozen you
> mention on the V love
> > it, as well.  They just don't wear blinders.
> > 
> >
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