• Let’s take up a relocation collection
On June 9 [frequent writer] make it clear he has to live in a country like America that has a lying president, a lying vice president, as well as a lying secretary of state (both now and former) a lying secretary of defense, a lying national security adviser and lying former secretary of defense.
So that [frequent writer] doesn’t have to spend another day in this lie-infested country called America, I am taking up a collection for him to any socialist country of his choosing.
Donations may be sent to P.O. Box 8554 Springfield, IL 62791. Any funds not used in [frequent writer]s’ transportation will be used for the upkeep of the Illinois Korean War Memorial, where the names of 1,754 Illinois veterans are inscribed who were killed in action defending this rotten country called America.
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• What a country!
Is America a great country or what?
Where else could someone like [frequent writer] continually write such anti-American, anti-government, and anti-military garbage and still not face a firing squad? God bless the USA.
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• Why stay?
If [frequent writer] is so unhappy with this country, why does he stay here?
ash’s friend defends their liberal cohort:
Well, it looks like the "America Love It or Leave It" crowd is still around and kicking. This time they're aiming their silliness at [frequent writer]. Unfortunately, since I've been gone, I'm unaware of what transgression Mr. [frequent writer] committed.
But, having worked to raise a lot of money for good causes over the years, I can't help but be aghast at [name withheld]'s deceptive tactic in asking for donations - really intended for the Korean War Memorial - to pay the cost of Franks' ticket out of this country. What an insult to those 1,754 Illinoisans who died in Korea. That war, of course, was followed by Vietnam in which thousands more Illinoisans died, which was followed by Iraq with its death toll rising daily. All wars of choice and not waged because of any threat to our country or our lifestyle.
[Frequent writer] - and the rest of us who agree with him - will stay here, thank you. But, of course, those who support George Bush's failed administration are welcome to leave. Or, perhaps, they just ought to stay out of the bars and backrooms where they congregate and dream up these silly letters.
Similarly situated minds think alike. ash loves the fact that she and her friend have very different writing styles and foci:
Wow. Three consecutive letters (or is that just how they appear online) engaging in Springfield’s favorite pastime of [frequent writer]-bashing. To read them was like being caught in a time warp, zooming back months (or has it been years?) to the editorial page discussion in which conservatives of the authoritarian persuasion equated mindless loyalty with patriotism and offered to pay the one-way expenses outta here for liberals with the nerve to protest the atrocities of the current administration. And then we pointed out that, you see, loving the country is not synonymous with accepting the behavior of the powerful people corrupting it, that seeking to preserve the country’s foundation is actually an expression of that love, and therefore “America: love it or leave it” is a rather lame expression when you think about it. If you think about it, I should say, since apparently the message was never received.
Did I imagine the entire commentary? Now the satisfied customers are baaaack feigning concern for the “unhappy” Mr. [frequent writer], an American dismayed by an America he no longer recognizes, and an America to which he is at least as entitled to continue inhabiting in its originally intended glory as those blindly defending efforts to justify war-mongering and disfigure its ideals. The irony is if we “unhappy” liberals, and the growing number of non-authoritarian conservatives, did leave, all the hunky-dory whatever-Bush-does-is-fine-because-he’s-the-leader types would be left with an America rapidly becoming something other than America the concept (as opposed to America the land mass) until there’d no longer be an America to love, leave, or with which to do much of anything. Which, when I think about it, sounds rather appropriate.