----- Original Message -----
From: "don bishop" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "don bishop" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Worth Reading: Pledge of Allegiance by John McCain
> Had to send this a second time because I forgot to delete all that
> "great patriotic stuff" below lou's message.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "don bishop" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: "For blind ham radio operators"
> <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 1:56 PM
> Subject: Re: Fw: Worth Reading: Pledge of Allegiance by John
> McCain
>
>
>> Lou,
>>
>> I agree with you one hundred percent. I just hope we can make it
>> through to the end of the year and be rid of Bush and his ilk.
>> Maybe not much will get done between now and then, but I rather
>> see congress stall than allow Bush to ram through more of his
>> disasterous and wrong-headed proposals. Let him whine for a few
>> more months and then go home and be a big shot.
>>
>> Don
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Louis Kim Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 12:22 PM
>> Subject: Re: Fw: Worth Reading: Pledge of Allegiance by John
>> McCain
>>
>>
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> As long as we are getting political, I'll express my views.
>>>
>>> I'll say that pledge again when we return to following the
>>> Constitution
>>> that that flag used to represent and for which that young man
>>> fought. I am
>>> frankly shocked that Americans do not see those founding
>>> principles as
>>> being of utmost importance. Even for so-called security sake,
>>> when you
>>> give up liberties, you generally don't get them back. It is
>>> easy to be
>>> complacent about this as long as they are going after the other
>>> guy. But
>>> when you can make up the rules as you go, and hide under
>>> homeland security
>>> as the clause that absolves all, what is to stop you from
>>> ignoring the
>>> rules for any reason that suits you. I don't trust Bush or his
>>> goons as
>>> far as I could throw them, and this isn't the country that the
>>> flag used to
>>> represent, and frankly I don't care if you want to call me
>>> unpatriotic for
>>> that or not. If backing the likes of George W. Bush and his ilk
>>> to go
>>> around being the international bullies under false pretenses
>>> constitutes
>>> patriotism, then I would just as soon return to the British
>>> crown, thank
>>> you very much.
>>>
>>> In fact, a real patriot should insist that this government
>>> return to the
>>> principles that our Constitution stands for. That would be an
>>> end to
>>> search and seizures without warrants just because someone can
>>> conveniently
>>> say that someone might pose a security risk to the country.
>>>
>>> Normally, I don't like to express my views in this forum, but if
>>> you are
>>> going to shove the flag in my face, I'm going to tell you what
>>> the flag
>>> should stand for, and what a bunch of self-serving phonies the
>>> current
>>> administration represents. This isn't about being a Republican
>>> or a
>>> Democrat. If Jimmy Carter had tried what Bush is done, I'd have
>>> hung him
>>> out to dry verbally as well.
>>>
>>> Now, can we get back to talking about ham radio?
>>>
>>> 73, de Lou K2LKK
>
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