"Duke of URL" <macbenahATkdsiDOTnet> wrote in message
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> In news:Je6Pb.18143$ws.2263683@news02.tsnz.net,
> Adam Whyte-Settlar <grawillers@hotmail.com> radiated into the
> WorldWideWait:
> > "Raj Feridun" <rferid@NOSPAMyahoo.co.jp> wrote in message
> > news:2fmp00p5s8g56i2lkb1gbjh5gg7lan7oc3@4ax.com...
> >> On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 08:51:44 +1300, JJD <jefdrab@newsguy.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>>> I do wish her good luck and I hold no ill feelings towards her.
> >>>> If she dislikes America she's absolutely doing to right thing by
> >>>> leaving and I urge the same of all America-haters living in the
> >>>> country. The haters don't deserve to live there.
> >>
> >>> I'm sure you're mistaken.  One remembers claims that America is
> >>> the place where one is free to see the world as one wishes,
> >>> without fear or prejudice.  Perhaps that was in another time.
> >>
> >> No, no mistake. The undeservedness of haters to live in the USA is
> >> purely my opinion. Yes, the United States allows everyone to
> >> express their views freely even the USA haters.
> >>
> >> I was just urging all those haters to leave since there's no
> >> reason to hang around a place you hate so much. I applauded her
> >> personally for doing so. A lot of the haters are just of full of
> >> hot air though and hungering attention it would seem. They fully
> >> avail themselves of the privilege that is American citizenship and
> >> all it affords them while badmouthing their country all the way.
> >> That just sucks.
> >
> > Not into democracy yourself then?
> > Think you could define what an 'America-hater' *is* exactly?
> > Does merely 'bad-mouthing their country' make them 'America haters'
> > in your view?
>
> Well, here's one good explanation:
> Experience proves that the man who obstructs a war in which his nation
> is engaged, no matter whether right or wrong, occupies no enviable
> place in life or history. Better for him, individually, to advocate
> "war, pestilence and famine," than to act as obstructionist to a war
> already begun.
> The history of the defeated rebel will be honorable hereafter,
> compared with that of the Northern man who aided him by conspiring
> against his government while protected by it.
> The most favorable posthumous history the stay-at-home traitor can
> hope for is - oblivion.
> -- Ulysses S Grant
>
I like that, Duke. I really do. It expresses exactly what I feel in this
time
of crisis in our nation.

Jim Stewart
DeKalb Illinois