I must hate America

[Pilot_MKN]

I posted a link on my Facebook to the article about the 13 year old being removed from class by the police and got QUITE an angry and outrageous response to it by some of my friends and classmates. It just shocks me how ignorant people can be of the issues and some of the insane stances people take on things. I'll post a few quotes from their responses:

"That is pathetic! I can't believe that!... They should have taken him and threw him across the border! If someone doesn't want too put their hand across their heart in respect for this great nation and the people that have died and ARE dying for the very freedom they have, then they need to be gone!"

"It should be instilled in young people to love this country from a very young age."

"Hey you are embarrassing yourself in public essentially. Anyone who is not a true patriot for America should not enjoy any of our rights. I have a lot of friends in the military and a lot of my family has served; fighting foreign or domestic enemies has EVERYTHING to do with protecting our FREEDOM that does not come free at all. So do yourself a favor and just keep such gibberish to yourself or maybe change your whole perspective. The kid mentioned above needs some serious education and maybe a little time in military school as far as I am concerned if not total expulsion from school and this country's states and territories. Hundreds of thousands if not millions of our blood brothers and sisters have died horrible deaths and situations all for this country as far as they were concerned. Just ask yourself what your forefathers and fellow countrymen who have first hand knowledge of how much evil and tyranny is out there just hoping we let our guard down would think of you. Read this well and several times and use your head."

"We can't stop terror. But we can keep it out of this country as much as possible. You can't stop drugs. But you can enforce rules instead of allowing every dope slinging crackhead out there to open up stores on main street next to a church. You see it's people who stand up against what is wrong and puts a STOP to it."

[hellbilly]

I get the same sort of shit sometimes, not that bad though. Makes ya wonder why some people are on your "Friends List" eh?

[anarchir]

Makes ya wonder why some people are on your "Friends List" eh?

Yup. I'm phasing those out slowly as I phase new ones in

[AOD_Horseman]

This country's filled with a bunch of damned sycophants. You have better friends here.

[Rillion]

What article was this?  

Sounds like you need to do some friends list pruning.  You've got an infestation of idiotic nationalism.  

[TimeLady Victorious]

I only have less than six people on my facebook and less than 10 people on my AIM and LJ lists.

I have a low tolerance for bullshit.

[anarchir]

Wow that is low.  Or you just never leave your house, are very anti-social, and do not meet new people of Facebook user age.

[DontTreadOnMike]

I'd cull the heard that is my friends list but that would be really awkward considering I'd have to see those people next Easter dinner, not to mention Thanksgiving and Christmas.

[The ghost of a ghost of a ghost]

I have 0 facebook friends.

[Diogenes The Cynic]

I have 0 facebook friends.

Do you have any friends in real life?

[Pilot_MKN]

What article was this?  

This article that was posted to the show prep: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/23/AR2010022303889.html

[Pilot_MKN]

This country's filled with a bunch of damned sycophants. You have better friends here.

I grew up in (and still attend college in) Mississippi, so I suppose this kind of crap shouldn't surprise me, but you still hold out hope sometimes....

[The ghost of a ghost of a ghost]

I have 0 facebook friends.

Do you have any friends in real life?

You're mother sends checks to your friends to hang out with you.  Admiral Naismith told me so. 
P.S. He says she's late this month.

No seriously, you are the biggest crybaby I've encountered on the BBS to date.  You're still mad b/c I told you your opinion on logic is ridiculous due to the fact you believe in a faith based religion.  Heckle me all you want.  I feel sorry for you. 

P.S.S. I don't have threads directed at me calling me a fucking asshole/insane.  Take a look in the mirror and try being a good person.  Tip: Lighten the fuck up.

[TimeLady Victorious]

Wow that is low.  Or you just never leave your house, are very anti-social, and do not meet new people of Facebook user age.

Guilty on all charges.

Most people who try to add me on Facebook are people I knew in high school. I didn't talk to you then, I ain't talking to you now.

[Rillion]

What article was this?  

This article that was posted to the show prep: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/23/AR2010022303889.html

Ah.  Whatever you may think of the Supreme Court, you might want to use this quote on your detractors:

"If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein." -- Justice Robert Jackson, writing for the majority in West Virginia State Board of Education vs. Barnette, the case that determined in 1943-- 1943-- that public schools have no right to force students to say the Pledge of Allegiance.