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[gwywnnydd]

I don't know why this jumped into my head recently, but I just want to share a bit of why, just like my Dad, I'm American by choice.

Excerpt from a monologue in "The American President" (which is a fabulous movie, if you haven't seen it):

America isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship. You've gotta want it bad, 'cause it's gonna put up a fight. It's gonna say, "You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center-stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. You want to claim this land as the land of the free? Then the symbol of your country cannot just be a flag. The symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Now show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then, you can stand up and sing about the land of the free.

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*applause*

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting that.

Now if people would only adopt it... *sigh*

[wendolen.livejournal.com]

The newest addition to my enormous sig quote file:

"I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the
Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap
himself in the flag." -- Rep. Craig Washington (D-TX)