Open letter to those that "feel" ashamed to be American

Self | 25 Feb 2003 | Self

[Howie66]

To those of you that are ashamed to be an American and/or no longer consider yourself to be an American:

I take you at your word. Since you no longer consider yourself to be an American, I would strongly recommend that you show enought intestinal fortitude to no longer accept the benefits of being an American.

Do the right thing and quit your job, abandon your home and leave our shores at the earliest possible time. Renounce your citizenship while outside of our borders and promise never to return to sully our shores.

Frankly, I question your integrity and resolve to do these things. You are what is fundamnetly wrong with this country today. You demand all the rights and freedoms to act as a self important individual, yet you will be the first to stand on the sidelines while others roll up their sleeves to do the heavy lifting, while you demonize and criticize their every effort. People like you are beneath contempt.

Take your sorry act to another country. You will not be missed.

Sincerely,

Howie66"

[Howie66]

Let's see if you have the cajones to take a meaningful stand. Personally, I'll bet against it. People like you are always spouting off and never backing it up.

[rabidralph]

Please don't hold in your emotions like that, Howie, it's unhealthy. Tell us how you really feel :-)

[b4its2late]

Unfortunately, most of those types are commies and they are here for one specific reason... to undermine the constitution. Since they are able to do it freely, they'll stay, and continue to attack our great nation.

No matter how bad that sounds, I have confidence they will not win......

[Romulus]

For the record, I've always considered myself to be nothing but American. That's why I think your post stinks. Nothing's more un-American than stifling peaceful dissent and debate. Nothing's less patriotic than abandoning your country in her hour of need. Your post is an act of worship to the Leviathan State, the demand of tyrants throughout history. It's precisely what I would have expected from Hitler or Stalin.

And FYI, it's spelled c-o-j-o-n-e-s.

[Howie66]

Thank you for your spell checking.

[solo gringo]

You are so rite howie66.We have far to many slackers in this country.If they would get off thier butts and move a few feet now and then they might change thier minds.And again they might forget where America is and stay away.

[Howie66]

Be careful, Solo..... we have someone that is real "retentive" about spelling lurking around here..... :-)

[Darksheare]

Actually, the commies make me ashamed that they are my countrymen.
And sometimes, I'm ashamed that I served in uniform to protect those clowns.

And then I come here, see the crew and know that I did the right thing in boing in uniform.
Then I get mad that there isn't much to be done about the idiots who want to destroy our country.
It's not like one can tranq them and return them to the wild to 'roam free'...
Though it hasn't stopped me from wishing!

[Ms. AntiFeminazi]

Nothing's more un-American than stifling peaceful dissent and debate.

Whose peaceful dissent and debate is being stifled? When is the last time you turned on a TV? Has anyone been physically confined for their speech?

Nothing's less patriotic than abandoning your country in her hour of need.

I agree, and that is exactly what they have done. Just because they physically remain on this soil does not mean they haven't already abandoned this country. They can't have it both ways. Either we take them at their word, and they act on their own words, or their words are totally meaningless. Either way, they are totally useless to this country.

Your post is an act of worship to the Leviathan State, the demand of tyrants throughout history. It's precisely what I would have expected from Hitler or Stalin.

Ha! They have the freedom to leave. I'm amazed they haven't already gone. As for your analogy, there's nothing quite like some good old-fashioned hyperbole. lol

[LandofLincoln]

Great job Howie. The scene at the end of "A Few Good Men" when Nicholson says, "you want me to crawl through the night, and fight for freedom, and then you've nerve to ask how a provide that freedom" CLASSIC

[Search4Truth]

Your straw man has left the building.

[goldstategop]

Have Alec Baldwin, Dustin Hoffman and George Clooney moved yet?

[Search4Truth]

"Have Alec Baldwin, Dustin Hoffman and George Clooney moved yet?"

No, they haven't. They leave a lot, to wallow in the adoration of their anti-American fans abroad, but they keep coming back! Why?

[DAPFE8900]

TWO WORDS
GET OUT IF YOU DONT LIKE IT!!!!!! TO the protesters and people ashamed of the USA!

[luckodeirish]

The people you are addressing would not last 15 minutes anywhere other than America. But, they will never experience the horrible conditions/treatment/oppression etc from any other nation because they will never leave America because even in their little pinheads, they must know they have it made here.

[goldstategop]

Good question. They're unhappy and royally pissed off at this country but they don't mind living here. If it were up to me I'd tell the insufferable Hollyweird jerks to go walk the plank...

[FrankR]

It is my opinion that most of these "anti-Americans" are frustrated "shock jocks". Adoloscents who still cling to the notion that being "different" is being "cool". They hear their hollywood heroes mouthing off, they know you can't dig hip-hop and be conservative and/or Republican, so they opt for the stance that is most likely to get them some TV time, either local or National. Most are barely out of the arms of their mommies, and have never spent any time outside the United States, and being products of the TV generation, they believe everything they hear...so it must be "America's fault". I listen to their crap about as much as I believe in ghosts, which is none. Someday, provided they don't go to college in Calif. or Mass.,, they'll grow out of it. We actually spend too much time addressing their whining....

[Magoo]

He also said: It's precisely what I would have expected from Hitler or Stalin.

He is a few history lessons short of a degree, don't you think? Those abberations didn't offer dissenters the Freedom to leave they rounded them up like cattle.

[Ms. AntiFeminazi]

Those abberations didn't offer dissenters the Freedom to leave they rounded them up like cattle.

Or shot at them in the dark as they fled, according to some personal accounts told to me by German friends who have the suitcases with bullet holes to show for it. But shhhhh! We're not supposed to know that.

[brooklin]

Besides all of your good points... they people who should be reading the post- aren't logging on to this website.