----- 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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