Flag Waving

[rattlesnakeroot]

This is dedicated to David English in response to the following:

Posted by David English, post 180:

BTW, just to clarify, I don't know when I first saw the flag wave in this conflict, but I do know that RDR began by getting all patriotic about the First Amendment. And then Joe Nocera in the NYTimes brought up the whole notion of those Brits not

Comments

[aredwitch]

I know when my grandfather, in WW II, was captured; he was lucky enough to be captured by Americans. My grandmothers four brothers were on the front facing the Russians and all of them died.

[bnmc2005]

I'm speechless at this comment. Thank you for posting it.

[rattlesnakeroot]

Yes, that is chilling! What nationality was your grandfather

[aredwitch]

I hope that was a good chilling. My Opa was German. He had no hard feelings about it; he liked Americans. If you had to surrender to someone, the Americans were fine. Others have treated pow's far worse. He didn't feel mistreated and they fed him too. Only thing was they kept him for two years after the war in Texas - war reparations. But he was grateful just to get home.

Bill of Rights

[exhpfan]

Since davidenglish seems to believe that our founding fathers didn't create anything special when they founded America, I thought I would just post the Bill of Rights as my comment

Re: Bill of Rights

[rattlesnakeroot]

I can't think of anything better to post than that!!! Bravo!

[alwaysholly]

Very nice. :)

[rattlesnakeroot]

Thanks - I love Ray Charles. There must be 100 videos with that song as a background, but that was my favorite.

I'm totally corny when it comes to being patriotic.

[ms_arithmancer]

Lovely video, thanks for sharing.

I think I am happy not to know what prompted this. ;)

[rattlesnakeroot]

You really are lucky. *lol*

But if you decide to read it for yourself, it's HERE post 180.

He seems to be ignoring the concept of the American Revolution. The founding fathers were not exactly thrilled with their English heritage.

[rattlesnakeroot]

And I would like to think that other Americans who read that sort of drivel would speak up for their own country from time to time, especially people running the show. But obviously other things are more important to them than freedom, democracy, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and 200 years of American history.

skimming, skimming...

[teaqueenie]

I didn't really read the full comments but I agree that DE's cavalier attitude toward the US constitution is annoying. I was also offended when RDR books used the patriotic angle in this case. This is a copyright issue not an invasion. Thinking that JKR should prevail is not treasonous to the country.

Now, they're trashing George Lippert as an SVA wannabe. I do think that Lippert's stories are entirely something different from the Lexicon. Even if SVA/RDR win, I don't see Lippert publishing his sequel as a series.

[bemoan1000]

Okay I’m lost in this post, and being the nosey person I am I have to ask, what did he do now? I went to LL to see if I could see anything, but didn’t find anything. I really don’t like to stay there to long.

[rattlesnakeroot]

I posted a link a few posts above this. It's about three pages back on the Leaky thread

[bemoan1000]

somebody else.
I understand that pet peeve, and I also have it.

I noticed that you quoted him and linked the source. All under fair use. It seems to be with this law suite many posters are scared to do this. They feel that they have to ask permission from the sources to do this. My boss was telling me that AP was trying to get bloggers to pay for doing this.
http://wwwwakeupamericans-spree.blogspot.com/2008/06/associated-press-bloggers-boycotts-and.html

Just don’t know what to think of this trend.