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From: dmcanzi@watdcsu.UUCP (David Canzi)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Nicaraguan Parallel
Message-ID: <1688@watdcsu.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 15:54:30 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 23 15:54:30 1985
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Reply-To: dmcanzi@watdcsu.UUCP (David Canzi)
Organization: University of Woolamaloo
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In article <1178@ihuxn.UUCP> gadfly@ihuxn.UUCP (Gadfly) writes:
>--
>Oh boy, somebody said the magic word:
>
>> So what?  Why not salute the flag, you are an American aren't you?
>> What is the problem with patriotic songs.  Do you find patriotism
>> offensive?
>
>"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." --Samuel Johnson

"In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last
refuge of a scoundrel.  With all due respect to an enlightened but
inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first."
	-- Ambrose Bierce
-- 
David Canzi

ACCUSE, v. t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a
justification of ourselves for having wronged him.  (Ambrose Bierce)