Does Freerepublic.com posters hate America?

[TrueAmerican]

Pertaining to the core posters.

[Cerridwen]

1. Love America, Hate Americans

From movie "An American President"

[bryant69]

14. THere it is

If you wantd to play the class welfare card you might suggest that they hate Most Americans but love one very special kind of American.

[brainshrub]

2. If your talking about the core posters

Yes.

They hate America and what she stands for. They want a Christian-Fascist state.

Behind every movement that causes pain, death and woe you will find a conservative.

[istruthfull]

11. Christians by name only

Christians by name only. Real Christians are about concern not control. "Freedom of religion, press, and general assembly." Freedom to choose your relegion whatever one you want and not some state assigned distorted version of one.

[brainshrub]

13. Welcome to DU!

:toast:

[PROGRESSIVE1]

3. Yes, all FREEPERS HATE AMERICA!!!

:puke:

[Nocturnes]

4. Yes

They are against the idea that is America. They are very very found of the land mass, the flag etc. What they hate is the very thing that makes America what it is. The idea behind it. Give them what they want (the United Fascist States) and they will be happy. Give them a country based on it's founding principles and they hate it

[joefree1]

5. They hate a changing or evolving America

I suspect most have issues with getting older while the world passes them by. That's why so many are fundies waiting for an Apocalypse that never comes. They can't stand the idea that the world will live on beyond their own deaths.



*think I rattled a few trolls?:evilgrin:

[Swede]

6. Some are so far right they hate Bush.

They think he's too soft.

[T Town Jake]

10. That's pretty far to the right!...

...but I think you are probably correct.

[NightTrain]

7. They certainly can't stand the idea of democracy in action...

...except when the end result matches their ideology. Sure sounds to me like freepers hate America!

[Vickers]

8. They like the real estate but not the rules

Well, except for the 2nd Amendment.

[tandot]

9. They want a Theocracy and Dictatorship with Bush as their King

They want people who don't believe in THEIR God converted or, if they refuse, stoned to death.

They want women to shut up and to be subservient.

They love Freedom of Speech when it comes to issues they support, but hate Freedom of Speech when people who have a different opinion about the issues use it.

[snippy]

12. They hate everything. n/t

[nolabels]

15. I do too (that's the correct response, isn't it?)

Btw should I care, or should they care if it was true

Frankly I don't think they could be a loyal opposition because I don't think they know what loyalty involves


(snip)
Shameful past
From the late 1940s and into the 1950s, a jackass of a Senator from Wisconsin named Joseph McCarthy created a manic stir in the country. He and his permanent subcommittee 'investigated' -- a euphemism for 'harassed' -- members of the media, public figures, army officials and people in high government positions. He accused them of being Communists -- whatever that means. Not one of his imputations was ever proved and the Senate finally censured him in 1954.

A national suspicion developed over the idea of domestic Communism and it was egged on by this fascist's sensational -- but baseless -- attacks. One consequence of this paranoia was requiring loyalty oaths as a condition of employment for certain jobs -- including education. Most of these oaths included whatever a local administrator decided should be required of a good American citizen.

Historically, educators have been among the most open-minded and freedom loving of citizens. During McCarthy's era, many teachers were unwilling to sign a piece of paper that effectively denied them their basic First Amendment rights, including "freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble". Because of America's national hysteria, many good teachers lost their jobs for their refusal to take a loyalty oath. In one such case in July 1950, thirty-one faculty members of the Berkeley and Los Angeles campuses of the University of California were dismissed by a two-vote majority of the Board of Regents for refusing to sign the required loyalty oath. This oath required a specific denial of membership in the Communist party or belief in organizations advocating overthrow of the national government.

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government…

-Declaration of Independence
(snip)
http://unquietmind.com/loyalty.html