Below is a recent comment by the improbably-named Johnny Feelgood, a reader of this blog. My words are interlined and italicized:
(Somehow my last post did not make the cut.
I don't censor comments here, except if they're accidental dupes or completely off-topic. I'll even allow remarks from obvious anti-Semites. But, I don't know why I didn't get your last remarks.
We'll see how this one goes. I tried to be a little more vitriolic to see if that is more your taste.)
Yes, I like vitriol.
You constantly rail on the left while sitting bitch (your phrase) for Herr Bush's imperialist policies
Your clumsy implication is that our President is a Nazi. How stupid of you. Do you know anything about History? The Nazis went to war to deprive people of their human rights and to murder them. Uncle Sam has gone to war to liberate a country from a regime of repressive psychopaths. If you think that that's "imperialist," then I suppose you're stupid enough to be a Democrat.
and referring to anyone opposing the American colonization of Iraq and Haiti as "those who hate America."
Your use of the word colonization is ignorant. We are occupying Iraq as a military force because we chose to liberate its population from tyranny. Some day, we will relinquish control to a stable Iraqi government and our deed will have been done, thereby letting our men and women come home.
As for Haiti, you apparently have no idea of that country's history. Name me one piece of evidence that would lead you to believe that Haiti is an American colony.
But I have not seen any comment from you on Commadante Bush's plan for rolling back all of our civil liberties in the name of Homeland Security.
Anyone who believes that the President alone, or any and all the branches of the Government together, have the power to roll back "all of our civil liberties" deserves to have his taken away. Forever. These accusations of the Bush Administration's police state mentality made by the Left are embarrassing bullshit. Name me even one example of the Patriot Act depriving you of your civil liberties and I will show you that your example is a tool already available to any district attorney and a compliant judge anywhere.
Indeed, what could be more anti-American than providing the jack-booted government thugs (Bush Sr.'s characterization of Premier Bush's henchmen) easy access to every aspect of innocent citizens' lives?
I'm not getting your reference to Bush the Elder, but the rest of your statement is incorrect, anyway: it is not "easy" to get permission for surveillance on a terrorist suspect. You still gotta go see a judge and otherwise justify yourself. And, consider also that the Government has too few resources to be "spying" on everyone. Why would they want to do that, anyway? Conspiracism very often bleeds to death on Occam's Razor.
Yet that is what is happening.
Horseshit. That's a myth to keep the hippies and the militia men warm at night.
The government now wants to require every internet connection to have a back door so that the government can back-door innocent citizens.
The Government wants to be able to have a back-door on suspicious [citizens]. Yeah, yeah, I know: it's a slippery-slope argument, but the truth is that, if the G wants to know something about you, it will already. Or, are you under some illusion that we live in a perfect libertarian utopia now?
What is your view on what it means to be an American?
It means speaking English and voting and reading the news and paying your taxes. It means having choices and freedoms and pursuits of happiness. What does it mean to you? Sharing the wealth? Being obedient to the State? Going along to get along?
What does that give us besides an SUV,
I don't own an SUV and I think most people who do are overpaid bullies.
a NASCAR,
I don't get this. Is it a slam against blue-collar mullet-wearers who like cheap domestic beer and Pamela Anderson? Well, at least your wing of the Democratic Party isn't burdened with a sense of community with the unclean masses.
and a lot of self-righteousness?
Who taught you that self-righteousness is always wrong?
Is it not the freedom to conduct our lives without government intrusion?
Only in a libertarian's pipe dream. Unless you think you're free from taxation, licenses, permits, jury duty, traffic laws, the criminal and civil codes, etc.
Please comment, my friend.
Done.
Remember, a vote for Bush is a vote for those who hate individual freedoms.
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