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As Independence Day approaches, we'd like to know how you define and express your patriotism as an American.

From serving your country on the battlefield to serving up soup at community kitchens, people have different ways of caring for our great nation. What's yours?

What is patriotism?love for or devotion to one's country ("patriotism." Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. 2008.)

This the definition of what patriotism is and you need to have the opposite of ,to get a true meaning.This is the so called debate in America since the 1960s.

Is it Patriotism or Treason to LIE???

opposite of is Treason

–noun

1. the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign.

2. a violation of allegiance to one's sovereign or to one's state.

3. the betrayal of a trust or confidence; breach of faith; treachery.

—Synonyms 1. Treason, sedition mean disloyalty or treachery to one's country or its government. Treason is any attempt to overthrow the government or impair the well-being of a state to which one owes allegiance; the crime of giving aid or comfort to the enemies of one's government. Sedition is any act, writing, speech, etc., directed unlawfully against state authority, the government, or constitution, or calculated to bring it into contempt or to incite others to hostility, ill will or disaffection; it does not amount to treason and therefore is not a capital offense.

Main Entry: Treason Anglo-French treison crime of violence against a person to whom allegiance is owed, literally, betrayal, from Old French traïson, from traïr to betray, from Latin tradere to hand over, surrender: the offense of attempting to overthrow the government of one's country or of assisting its enemies in war; specifically : the act of levying war against the United States or adhering to or giving aid and comfort to its enemies by one who owes it allegiance .

Now the big bunch of words that we all owe patriotism to - http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html

The Constitution of the United States

This piece of paper was made by the people 232 years ago ,who died and froze and were starved and hung as traitors to the crown and fought to protect their way of life ,their family's, their Children, their jobs , their money,their homes,their values and their schools.

They said loud and clear who this Government was made for and by whom and who runs it.

Preamble

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

This Constitution is the Rock that America is built on.when you say American you mean the people,the people are Americans and they live in America and were born in America.As Lincoln said a government of the people and by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth.

We have to many today and for many years that want to debate every thing just to give some selvage idea or meaning to their words just for some selvage end to benefit them selves.They are hiding behind the first amendment.

Amendment I - Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression. Ratified 12/15/1791. Note

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

1 aarchaic : deprive b: to reduce in scope : diminish <attempts to abridge the right of free speech>2: to shorten in duration or extent <modern transportation that abridges distance>3: to shorten by omission of words without sacrifice of sense : condense

This freedom is for all ,except the founding fathers also put in a word (Treason)that says you have a responsibly to your country and the oath you gave to the people when you are called and /or elected or appointed to serve the people.

Sedition is any act, writing, speech, etc., directed unlawfully against state authority, the government, or constitution, or calculated to bring it into contempt or to incite others to hostility, ill will or disaffection; it does not amount to treason and therefore is not a capital offense.

Freedom of speech is words and to pass a law causing harm to the people is an action and is giving aid and comfort to the enemies and that is Treason.

Actions is how we judge people and not with words.I have always accepted my Responsibility to my country.to my family and to my children and to my values.I am serving jury duty not griping that it will cost me money.I served my country and now suffer with a bad leg ,but I do not blame my country.I served for years in the boy scouts to serve boys growing up to become men and did not blame my country for losing money on all those wonderful trips.I have spent many hours as a kid and a man and father in church until they started protesting in the streets and trying to over turn laws and lying about it all and killing Doctors just to make money from their treason.Now I pray in my closet to my God.I have voted in all elections since JFK was made President of the USA and have been to tons of meetings with neighbors either trying to get something done or not.Have awards on my walls and Have worked hard for my children and wife and now i am retired and enjoying the rewards of serving my country.I honored My mother and father and they supported this their country and taught me how to be a man and American and to follow the rules and not bring harm to my fellow country men and mom is 87 and my Dad died in 1999.I have and still have lots of patriotism(love for or devotion to one's country)for my Parents.

I ask you the American people, who are all these organizations serving ???Their country are their pocket book ?and do they want to change this country to satisfy their pocketbooks at your expense.

Who is climbing the ladder to success and using your money and hard work and then destroy your schools and jobs and children and country just to make more money.

Why would Obama remove a flag pin to protest a war where America went to free the oppressed people of Iraq and to protect the people of America.Why wont he say we are winning.

This was a lie then and is still a lie,just to get elected and make $400,000 a year.

Obama Said. "I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaeda."

Why would many of those elected to congress blame the President for causing the war ,when they voted for it.Why do so many take a oath to defend this country and the rock it stands on just to make more money.Are they loyal to America or their GOD,the good old dollar.The news media and papers are supporting anyone or idea to make money

After 232 years of a government that has survived Thur all kinds of world changes and changes at home. Why do we have so many wanting a change and to what and for whom.

We the people may have to clean the country of treason cause the congress is not going to since the 1960s and we the people are paying for their do nothing congress .

Kick them all out and congress too.

Put the US back in USA

Check with your court house and find out where every elected offical lives in your district.

Find out where that congress man lives and spend the fourth of july at thier house.

A suggestion is to ask the first ileagl allien you see and they will know where he lives.Take your lawn chairs and your signs and just camp out.Have a tailgate party on the streets of the high paid lawyer who works for you except when hes awake or at his office.Put sand bags across his driveway so he can see that some of Americans needs help and hes not there filling bags.

Carry Signs with:

"Love It or Leave it"

"Its about oil ,Dang it"

"Please send your lawn mantaince man home ,An American needs his job".

"Bush did not do it ,You DiD"

"Save an American,Deport a Congressman",

"Daliy Cos did not hire you ,We did".

"No more Mexican food,Let them go home to eat"

"My kid cant go to University cause of no Gas ,But illeagle goes for Free"

"Please speek English,We are American."

"Truth is not a Smear"

"Dont listen to muslins ,they have Gas."

"Los Angles safe city ,Ever met a Gang member???"

"eMe is 50,000 strong and growing".

OK thats enough cause you can think of more than i can :).

What can they do ,they wont shoot ileagle alliens on the streets and they wont arrest roiters in the 1960s .As we all say "what are they going to do shoot us" ,the American people????

remember dont bring guns and dont aurgue with bodyguards and dont say nothing to thier wifes are guy friends and do not show cameras leave them on ,but hide in car.

So lets all show up at all elected officals homes and cebelertate the four of july at our congressman house.remember they wont talk to you but will talk to countrywide and the oil companys for a bribe and donation or whatever they can get.

Maybe they will bring out BBQ for you.NOT.

Have a fun and safe 4th.

Put the US back in USA

Heres another example of Congress at work,

The American Dream: Dr. Quiñones' Incredible Journey

Leading Doctor at Johns Hopkins Started Out as An Illegal Immigrant

"By the time I was 19, I decided I wanted to go to the U.S. and explore," Quiñones-Hinojosa said. "I was tired of the political oppression and the bifurcation of classes, the oppression of the poor that happens in my country."

Desperate for money, and with his sights set on a brighter future, he scaled a barbed border fence across from Calexico, Calif.

"It was a pretty scary experience," Quiñones-Hinojosa remembered. "It was filled with a real adrenaline rush excitement, but also fear, and, you know, fear gives you extra strength and courage. I got caught and sent back, but I did it again the same night."

He worked illegally for more than a year doing backbreaking work in California's fields, mostly picking tomatoes. Like other migrant workers, he sent his hard-earned cash back to his family in Mexico.

Although he always had a strong work ethic, Quiñones-Hinojosa -- who manned the pumps at his father's gas station -- seemed destined for a life of menial labor at low-paying jobs in his hometown. For Quiñones-Hinojosa, growing up was difficult.

Read about criminal success in America http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=5247526&page=1This a Wonderful story of how a criminal who did not have to have a Birth Certificate to get in to school and did not take sat test and did not graduate from high school and the bad USA government sent him to school and then a scholarship to attend the University of California, Berkeley. I believe this is the town who is going to throw out the Army and ban them from the town.He was deported twice and then his dream came true.

Now the Dam o crats are trying to get reelected with lies and using false names and a AKA.

What makes this a great story is that the 30,000,000 million kids in America will never have a chance to get his dream cause they did it the right way and they cant get a job with dad cause he was kicked out of the family and they sure will not be rewarded for being a criminal.

They are just forgotten.

Only criminals win in America.

Kick them all out and Congress too.

Oh well he don't care who he cheated and neither does Congress.

Put the us back in usa.

Obama is full of DO DO.

This gas price fixing has been going on since the 1970s and he did nothing then and when he got in to congress ,he and all the others did nothing and he has not presented a bill to do something now .Just promices and lies and the same o same o out of the Dam o crats.

Obama wants crackdown on energy speculators

Barack Obama said today that as president he would strengthen oversight of energy traders he blames in part for rising oil prices. (last week we do not need drilling and the people could have absorbed the price if hike had not been so fast)John McCain's campaign accused Obama of "partisan attacks" after his rival blamed a McCain adviser, former Sen. Phil Gramm, for a so-called Enron loophole.( why ?oh why ?did not obama enter a bill to shut loophole.Busy attacking the presidemt I guess????)

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Put the US bank in USA

Saudis Willing to Increase Oil Production If Customers Need It

But the Saudi oil minister also blamed speculators and asserted supply is not the problem.

"In today's environment, I am convinced that supply and demand balances and crude oil production levels are not the primary drivers of the current market situation," al-Naimi said. Officials and energy executives from more than 35 countries thronged a large hall where he spoke.

King Abdullah also said Saudi Arabia is not the culprit.

The king cited several factors driving "the unjustified, swift rise in oil prices" including "speculators who play the market out of selfish interests," plus higher consumption by developing countries and higher taxes in some countries.

U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman, however, said earlier that U.S. officials had found no evidence speculators are driving up prices.

Now if Congress had the Guts to step up to the plate and shut down the speculators and assert their power to control the purse strings and take back the 9 refinery's that are foreign owned and set the price of our oil coming out of the ground then we would see a big change .

But Congress would have to be the Representatives of the American people ,but we the people don't have Oil Lobbyists and we are not rich enough to help.

Put the US back in USA

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As thousands of schoolchildren in California look forward to their summer break, the spectre of huge budget cuts has left many of their parents wondering what the next school year will bring.

"Pick on someone your own size," announces a fearless eight-year-old at Parthenia Elementary School in North Hills, California - a complex of single-storey buildings in the San Fernando Valley, where 85% of students are Hispanic, more than half of them learning to speak English.

Once the envy of the entire United States, California's public education system now ranks in the bottom five states for per-pupil funding.

The privite schools and the church schools wont be cut and the marjity of the kids are getting no education because of the Invandion from the south.85% in this school and 50% in another of people who should have never been here .The presidents have not done thier job and the Congress are a bunch of cowards who are giving away America just for money.Since Nixcon we need to Kick them all out.

Solaution: cut off all funding from washington to all of the state till California'kicks out all illeagles alliens and deorts all that have entered illegly since the 1980s.

The federal goverment is so bad ,then dont send them all that bad money.Kick all congress out and stop all moneys to the Stupid state of California'

Gov Schwarzenegger for President and the whole country would be screewed up and get as dumb as those Pop Tarts in Schwarzenegger land.

Instead of cuting off funding for Iraq .The congress could have cut off califorinda or deportanted the chrimnals or helped Americans stay in school ,But no the speacker of the house had to go crawll on all fours to the sycian king.

Oh well do anything for a far left group and to get votes.

Dang I forgot she is from California'and one of the Pop Tart crowd.

Democracy - Rule by a government where the people as a whole hold the power. It may be exercised by representatives chosen by them (representative democracy)

Kick them all out and Congress to!

Put the US back in USA