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To: Jeff Winston
It certainly doesn’t make you a patriot.

Ha! "Patriot". One who loves the land of his father. You are too funny sometimes.

500 posted on 05/17/2013 7:34:22 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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To: DiogenesLamp
Ha! "Patriot". One who loves the land of his father. You are too funny sometimes.

Sorry, but that's not what "patriot" means.

A patriot is simply someone who loves and supports his country. And in our immediate context, it's someone who respects our Founding Fathers (hmmm, there's that word again) and our Founding Heritage and supports those.

Which doesn't describe you, since you don't seem to give a fig for our Founding Fathers, our historical heritage, or the laws they set up. Unless, of course, you happen to like them.

The most basic root of the word "patriot" derives from "pater" (father), but that's several stages back.

More immediately it comes from Greek patriṓtēs, meaning "fellow-countryman" or "lineage member."

So, back to the question:

You don't give a fig for what our Founding Fathers or early legal experts, the people who actually knew, said.

So what does that make you?

502 posted on 05/17/2013 1:20:20 PM PDT by Jeff Winston
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