[107890] in Cypherpunks
The land of the free.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mib)
Wed Jan 27 16:17:40 1999
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 15:52:38 -0500
From: mib <mib@io.com>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: mib <mib@io.com>
America isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship. You've got to
want
it bad, because it's going to put up a fight. It's going to say, "You
want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your
blood boil; who's standing center stage, advocating at the top of his
lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of
yours.
You want to claim that this land is 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."
-- "President Andrew Shepard," The American President.
