What patriotism is not
Wish I'd said that!
[Reprinted from Issues & Views July 9, 2001]
Loyalty is not defined as standing in tandem with your elected politicians, who, at all other times, take away your personal liberties, extract your money, and generally run roughshod over your life. Patriotism is not giving yourself blindly to a government whose principles are so far removed from its classical liberal founding as to resemble a Stalinist regime. Rather, patriotism is a loyalty to the founding principles on which this great Republic was born. What it is not is bowing down to the latest government edict as set forth by your chosen group of hand-in-your-pocket politicians in Washington.
-- Karen De Coster, "Dance of the War Mongers," at: LewRockwell.com
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