Responses to the "Warren Faulk -- 'Patriot'" Article
Concerning the Warren Faulk -- 'Patriot' article:
re Jonathan Hall..........
(I'm not smart enough to WRITE between the lines.)
We are entitled to very special freedoms in this country. Everyone SHOULD be, but we ARE, by law.
Seems a whole bunch of us are ready to suspend that freedom for those who do not walk in lockstep with them.
Tell me I should be quiet. That's OK.
Tell me I must be quiet. Not in this lifetime.
--Warren Faulk
Georgia
Friday April 4, 2003
Concerning the Warren Faulk -- 'Patriot'
article:
Warren Fauk is on target again.
What does it mean to be a patriot? I am an American, but I don't consider myself a patriot. I do not support, nor stand behind, nor endorse everything that the USA does, as a collective entity.
I do endorse the US Constitution and the Bill Of Rights - though it seems that many latter-day patriots are less than enthusiastic about supporting these documents.
If in order to be a patriot, one needs to support "the troops" in Iraq, then I am not a patriot. I pity them and wish them few casualties, but I do NOT support them. I do NOT sanction their mission nor their actions.
I did not support "the troops" in Vietnam either. In my opinion, they had no business being where they were, doing what they were doing. The Universal Soldier is a pitiably creature, not a hero.
More and more, I find myself agreeing with people from places other than the USA. Does this make me un-patriotic? And here is another question - if a citizen happens to be not particularly patriotic, does that mean that he is neccessarily, and damnably un-patriotic?
--Schuyler Lake
New Mexico
Thursday April 3, 2003
Concerning the Warren Faulk -- 'Patriot'
article:
AMEN!!!!!
--James Bernhardt
NJ United States
Wednesday April 2, 2003
Concerning the Warren Faulk -- 'Patriot'
article:
Why is it significant that only one country has Americans? Or rather "...AMERICANS"? Is there a superiour allegiance owed them over other humans? What trade-offs are implied, or urged? I love the equivalence of patriot to lover of liberty, but can't stretch that context to the exclusionary sentiment tacked on at the end.
--Jonathan Hall
California
The publisher replies:
Thanks for bringing up those points. (Are you sure that the statement at the end was exclusionary? I did not read it that way. The article's author, Warren Faulk, might clear that up for us -- keep watching this Letters page.)
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