FBI tortures US citizens?

ebrown_p wrote:

Brandon,

Pure Hogwash!

Criticizing one's country is not anything close to "unpatriotic".

I'm getting pretty sick and tired of people who don't read, or at least don't take a moment to think about posts before responding to them. I never said that criticizing one's country is unpatriotic. I said that someone who only says bad things about his country, and does that frequently, but never says anything at all favorable, or essentially never, even though he could, is unpatriotic. This is not the same as saying that any criticism is unpatriotic. And guess what? Only throwing dirt on one's country actually is unpatriotic.

Brandon9000 wrote:

ebrown_p wrote:

Brandon,

Pure Hogwash!

Criticizing one's country is not anything close to "unpatriotic".

I'm getting pretty sick and tired of people who don't read, or at least don't take a moment to think about posts before responding to them. I never said that criticizing one's country is unpatriotic. I said that someone who only says bad things about his country, and does that frequently, but never says anything at all favorable, or essentially never, even though he could, is unpatriotic. This is not the same as saying that any criticism is unpatriotic. And guess what? Only throwing dirt on one's country actually is unpatriotic.

How would you know whether the people you accuse ever say anything positive or not?


You have sneered at my attempt to discuss what I think is the dynamic that tends to occur in such settings as this.


Nonetheless, I think it a reasonable possibility. I also think it a very reasonable possibility that people say and think positive things about the positive sides of America in other settings - and even, unknown to you, here.

Lol - I would call your sneer and raise you 10, but it would likely be bootless and such, no?

...I don't like President Bush's policies. ...I think his threat to veto the legislation on stem cell research stinks. And it does have an effect on me because he is going to try to deny your country - with its scientists, its great universities, its groundbreaking medical researchers - from working with colleagues around the world to find ways of overcoming some of the terrible debilitating diseases that afflict all of us. His foreign policy stinks. His administration stinks. It stinks to high heaven. It is a very bad administration.

Got it? I don't hate/dislike America. I'm not anti-American. By all means tell me I'm wrong about my evaluation of your President's policies. But don't get me confused with some nutbar who can't say "America" without spitting.