Olbermann Video: Bush owes us an apology
Yes, he does. He owes the entire United States an apology for suggesting that it is unacceptable to think anything. Allow me to direct you once again to the words of Historian Howard Zinn:
While some people think that dissent is unpatriotic, I would argue that dissent is the highest form of patriotism. In fact, if patriotism means being true to the principles for which your country is supposed to stand, then certainly the right to dissent is one of those principles. And if we’re exercising that right to dissent, it’s a patriotic act.
One of the great mistakes made in discussing patriotism — a very common mistake — is to think that patriotism means support for your government. And that view of patriotism ignores the founding principles of the country expressed in the Declaration of Independence. That is: the Declaration of Independence makes it clear that governments are artificial creations set up to achieve certain ends — equality, life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness — and when governments become destructive of those ends it is the right of the people in the words of the Declaration, to alter or abolish the government.
More at TomPaine.Com
I wonder how George Bush would respond to the words of the Declaration of Independence. Would he even understand what they mean? Clearly he does not understand the oath he took to defend the Constitution.
More quotes on the value of dissent can be read here in a much earlier post from my journal. That post was 10 months ago. The attack on all voices of dissent just gets stronger and stronger.
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