4th of July Hypocricy (was: OT Celebration)

Imagine having a neighbor kid hear "Star Spangled Banner" and ask "what song is that?" - and he went to a PRIVATE school. -> -----Original Message----- -> From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org -> [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of R. D. Davis -> Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 11:15 AM -> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org -> Subject: 4th of July Hypocricy (was: OT Celebration) -> -> -> On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Sellam Ismail wrote: -> > Oops, sorry. My government class in 12th grade was a joke. -> The students -> > open challenged the teacher to fist fights during class and routinely -> > spoke over him, carrying on their own conversations. Subsequently, I -> > apparently didn't learn much. -> -> Apparently you received the same basic education, with regards to -> history, that, or better than, most of our politicians received. I -> recon that if most of our politicrats were asked what such concepts as -> freedom and liberty mean, or what the objectives of the founding -> fathers were, one would just get a response like "huh?" or "I don't -> think that I understand the question." -> -> *** The Truth about the 4th of July in America *** -> -> The 4th of July in America has degenerated into a big hypocritical -> joke. People are out celebrating just to celebrate, not giving a damn -> about the revolution and related ideas that they're supposedly -> celebrating. Our pea-brained, tax-hungry, freedom and liberty opposed -> politicians have the audacity to ride in 4th of July parades where -> foolish people cheer them on instead of booing them and tossing rotten -> eggs, or worse, at them. -> -> The 4th of July holiday is now all about nationalism, not patriotism, -> as flag waving loonies cheer on their tyrannical oppressors. -> -> -- -> Copyright (C) 2001 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & -> other animals: -> All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're -> above Nature & -> rdd(a)rddavis.net 410-744-4900 her other creatures, using dogma -> to justify such -> http://www.rddavis.net beliefs and to justify much human cruelty. ->