Poster from If You’re Not a Terrorist…Then Stop Asking Questions by Micah Wright
“There’s a new sheriff in town.
If you’re not with us, you’re against us.
Bring ‘em on!” (Ex-Yale Cheerleader) GW Bush
“Naturally, the common people don’t want war, but after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag people along whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is to tell them where they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.” — Hermann Goering, Reich-Marshall for Hitler, at the Nuremburg Trials after WWII
“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” Dr Samuel Johnson
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency he fails in his duty to stand by his country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth.” — Theodore Roosevelt
“My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one’s country, not its institutions or its office holders.” — Mark Twain
WASHINGTON DC—President Bush spoke out Monday in a revised version of the 2001 USA Patriot Act that would make it illegal to read the USA Patriot Act. “Under current federal law, there are unreasonable obstacles to investigating and prosecuting acts of terrorism, including the public’s access to information about how the federal police will investigate and prosecute acts of terrorism,” Bush said at a press conference Monday. “For the sake of the American people, I call on Congress to pass this important law prohibiting access to itself.” Bush also proposed extending the rights of states to impose the death penalty “in wake of Sept. 11 and stuff.” — From The Onion—September 17, 2003
“These people (neo-cons) jump out of bed each morning and pick their wardrobe and someone to hate. They’re not patriots… they’re hate-riots.” — Michael Moore
“Patriotism, the virtue of the vicious.” — Oscar Wilde
“A patriot must always defend his country against his government.” — Edward Abbey
“When the government fears the people, you have liberty. When the people fear the government, you have tyranny.” — Thomas Jefferson
“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think that the soul of America dies with it.” — Edward R. Murrow
“It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.” — Voltaire
“Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.” — Charles de Gaulle
“A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.” — William R. Inge
“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.” — George Bernard Shaw
“Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.” — George Jean Nathan
“Patriotism is a religion… the egg from which wars are hatched.” — Guy de Maupassant
“I couldn’t help but say to (Mr. Gorbachev), just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held… if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. We’d find out once and for all that we really are human beings here on this earth together.” — Ronald Reagan
“Once upon a time a long time ago… the repressive regime of evil King George ruled America. This fortunate son sneered at his timid, fearful subjects, and called them Loyalists. Brave, outspoken citizens of the new world annoyed the king, and they were branded traitors, rebels, Yankee Doodle dandies, and eventually… Patriots.” — Magic Sam
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Published by Josh at 03:00 PM on August 8, 2005
Comments
I am a registered republican and found this site very interesting. It opens your eyes to what main stream media is selling us. I’m tired of Bush and his boys trying to scare us and make everyone feel unsafe. This is America the beatiful: we couldn’t live anywhere safer.
Posted by: Brian Lunt on September 2, 2004 04:15 PM