It is our Right this Fourth of July:

Seems like a good time for all the hypocrites to come out of the wood work, shake the flag for awhile and retreat into their domiciles and call the rest of us “cowards” and “traitors” because we don’t agree with their positions or buy into their particular brand of dogma..

It is as if not agreeing with their positions, the positions of those who talk the good game, is the penultimate sign against nation and God.

Listen to McCain. We should be in Iraq for the next hundred years, or if the Mayans are right, at least til Doomsday, 2012.

Most of the rest go around and speak in hushed tones because someone who is so loud must be right.

On this day, July 4, 2008, I am here to say, “hogwash.”

If it’s time for anything, it’s time top set the record straight.

Most of these guys who tell us how to be good patriots have never served a day in their lives. Like Cheney, they were too busy, too self absorbed, too full of their own focus on making money so that someday they could tell us how to live our lives.

Looking for the good photo op doesn’t mean a thing, when you’re consorting with the enemy on the side to fatten your wallet.

These phony patriots who we’ve appointed to tell us what to do need to be exposed for what they are—even if it’s a holiday!

And just for good measure, these armchair patriots need to check the Constitution to see what it says.

It is not against the law or the Constitution to disagree with our government or even those who wave the flag in your face.

America is all about the freedom to disagree, the freedom to ask these patriots what their own credentials are and what gives them the right to legislate anyone’s else’s views or the audacity to comment on our patriotism.

My dad served every chance he got beginning when he was fourteen and got wounded six times and received a laundry list of medals so that some fat phony patriot can tell me that he knows what’s right for this country?

Phooey!

I followed my dad into service and I served my country. But at the same time, I don’t agree with everything it does—nor did I ever. And that’s the great thing about this country, my voice counts as much as the self-proclaimed hero’s does.

And that’s the way it should be.

And I would go back again to keep it that way.

So, dear Americans, remember that America is about you lifting your voice to disagree when some blowhard tells you how it is.

That is your right!

And never forget it—especially today, the Fourth of July.

And have a great holiday….you and your families….


Les Aaron

The Power of One Society