So...you consider yourself a patriot? (yeah, another rant)

When I hear the term Patriot I think back to the Paul Revere's of this country.

Maybe I am just old fashioned and out of touch. Maybe I read too many school texts back in the day about what being a patriot was.

I remember it all (as I read it) as a fight for freedom. For you and I to be ourselves.

From snorting coke to smoking, from religion to lack thereof. We wanted us all to be free from tyranny - from people telling us how to live and just letting us be.

We formed a more perfect union - one where we each contributed something (taxes, service, et al) to the greater cause.

No one should care if you are gay, you smoke, you like to have lighted up and animated santa's on your lawn, if you had a garage sale every weekend, etc and so on.

That was the ideal (even if not fully practiced by the many).

Individual freedom to be YOU. That was what I thought the message was.

And yet now I hear from both the right and the LEFT that we need to curtail those freedoms for the whole.

The RW wants to curtail them for the whole based on religion and terrorism, the left based on money we all pay to insurance and the collective well being of all.

It seems as though no matter which way I turn I am faced with people telling me how to live MY life - they just have different excuses as to why I need to give up more freedoms.

A lot of people have died to make sure I was free to live my life as I see fit. And you yours.

Let's work together to insure we keep those freedoms. Because no matter what statistics people come up with to show us how you and your choices affect me the real truth of the matter is that your choices are what I want to protect.

And the more I limit you, the more I am really limiting me.

K&R.

how come they're never expected to be patriotic- to sacrifice of themselves for the good of their country and countrymen- the way regular citizens are often asked to do...?

I wish more people would see things that way.

wouldnt it be nice if congress would remove that personhood status and replace legislation that was overturned by the supreme court creating that status?

then again, the dems and repubs in congress and their friends and money sources make lots of money off of corporate personhood,
so..........

Msongs

;)