I am an American. NO ONE is going to take my country from me.

[Dem2theMax]

No one is going to take my Constitutional rights away from me.
No one is going to torture in my name.
No one is going to tarnish the flag that my father fought for in WWII.
No one is going to tell me what I can or can't think, say or do when it comes to my freedoms.

If you think for one second that I am going to go away, stop caring, stop thinking, stop voting, stop demanding my rights as a citizen of the United States of America, you have another thing coming.

If you want to take these rights and freedoms away from me, you are going to have to kill me. Period.

My name is Renee Humphrey and I AM a patriot and an American.

Anyone want to join me?

[acmejack]

1. I am proud to do so!

My name is Allen Brooks, proud American & Texan, and I am proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with my fellow Patriot Renee!

[Subdivisions]

2. They'll have to wrest America from my cold, dead hands!

My name is Ron Curtis, another proud American & Texan. With nothing left to lose, I'll fight to my death to restore the America of my youth.

[indepat]

3. We need about ten million or so to march with you on Washington: of course

Tienanmen Square massacre might look paltry in comparison.

[bdamomma]

4. right we need the masses of people to get out in the streets

this is enough. I am tired of being treated like a fool, and I would like to wipe the smirks off each of their disgusting faces, rummy, rove, cheney, bush and gonsalves, fuck them all.

please note: we are dealing with cowards.

[indepat]

5. And Kinda, don't slight kinda liar, sleazy, eviler

[mom cat]

6. It just might come to having to chose between liberty and death. MLK

once stated (and I paraphrase here) that Longevity was a good thing, but that principles were more important. If we lose our lives in the struggle to save liberty, we will have died for a worthy cause instead os supporting a nightmare.

[shadowknows69]

7. My name is Scott McGregor

and I am an American and a Patriot. Don't bust a nail googling me CU you'll only find shit on an old baseball player.

[Atman]

8. They won't take your country from you...

...they'll take you from your country, maybe to Syria or one of Bush's gulags. Maybe you'll be "lucky" and get to stay in the states in one of Halliburton's slick new detention facilities. Don't worry...King George will know what to do with you.

[shadowknows69]

9. Well apparently there wll be 3 or 4 of us there

One or two more people brave enough to step up in this thread and we'll have ourselves a decent poker game.

[Atman]

10. Deal me in!

I'm there with you. I am so disgusted, I'm sick. Just sick.

[shadowknows69]

11. and your name was?

Come on, you're not going to make Agent Mike guess now are you?

[Atman]

12. And my name is...

Rob McGrath

As long as I've posted on DU, my name has been right out there. I have received death threats over my cartoons and web site, but I've never shied away from my positions. This is who I am, these are my beliefs.

[shadowknows69]

13. Great to meet you Rob

You want the top or bottom bunk? B-)

[BlueJac]

14. Sign me up

My name is Jack Martin and I am a patriot and an American.

[Dem2theMax]

15. Maybe it was the late night post. But I've got to believe there are

more than just a few Du'es who want to stand and fight.

:kick:

[OffWithTheirHeads]

16. My name is Buddy Gill

and I firmly believe in E. Zapatas dictum; Better to live on your feet, than die on your knees! Fuck em! When they come to take me away, several of "them" are going with me. I will not peacefully give my country away! I will not, peacefully let them take me to Halliburton detention camps. I will resist, violently, if necessary!

[StellaBlue]

17. I am wearing a pin with that Zapata quote right now!

:hi:

[OffWithTheirHeads]

20. Cool! Where did you get the pin?

Do they have a bumper sticker and a few thousand rounds of 9mm?

[StellaBlue]

24. Bookwoman

Austin, TX

A feminist bookstore.

I also have bumper stickers that say:

"More Bill, Less Kill"

"Read a Fucking Book!"

picture of American flag "WAKE UP!"

etc

[OffWithTheirHeads]

25. Link puuuleeze!

Cool stuff. Must purchase!

[Toucano]

18. That's quaint.

They already took your country from you, darling.

It's dead, dead, dead. The United States is the roadkill of a BushCo delivery truck.

[Dem2theMax]

19. I am NOT your 'darling.'

And if you don't mind, I'll do whatever the hell I want because this still is MY country.


Quaint? Alberto? Is that you?

[OffWithTheirHeads]

21. It's my country until you pry it from my cold dead hands!

Think that will be easy? Try me!

If you think the Iraqui's are a bitch, try patriotic Americans!

[Toucano]

22. The first stage is denial. n/t

[Dem2theMax]

27. Good idea. Click. Gone. nt.

[Toucano]

30. Pity. How will I ever know when you get to stage 2? LOL!

[johnaries]

23. My name is John Anderson from Nashville, TN.

I'm the real one - not the country music singer. :-)

I am a proud patriot. In 1975 I took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. I stand by that oath.

edit: BTW, Agent Mike - there are about 10 pages of John Anderson's in the Nashville phone book. Good luck!

[walldude]

26. I am an Earthling and a member of the human race

I pledge allegiance to no country or flag, my allegiance is to my family, friends and fellow man, to the people I love. I'm not a patriot, and I'm not a warrior. I didn't ask to be born here and don't think I would be any less of a decent person if I were Christian, Hindu, Muslim, or Buddhist, French, German, Italian, English or Iraqi it's a pretty small world out there, eventually people are going to figure that out.

[mwooldri]

28. Amen to that one.

I chose America. I had a choice and I chose to leave my life - mainly because of love for my then fiance and now wife. I chose to build a life here. I want some kind of semblence of life, liberty and freedom. I was born in the UK. I know how the constitution works there (even though it is unwritten) and was politically active as a Liberal Democrat (yes, a card carrying member, and I paid my dues). I've seen the evils of conservatism and what it did to my family during the 80's and early 90's. Even though Tony Blair supported the war in Iraq, he's a darn sight better guy in my eyes than the person presidently entitled the President of the United States of America.

I want to become a citizen here, but the way the country is going, I don't know if there will be an America to be a citizen of. These are dark days in the country I call home right now, and I am (I believe) rightly scared. I was scared before the invasion of Iraq. In 2000 I naievely supported Bush. I should have listened to my friend and co-worker that Bush wants to go back into Iraq (for revenge) and I see that Iraq was a "revenge war" to finish off what daddy didn't do in the late 80's and early 90's.

From a guest here at your liberty - and I know I have the right to be removed at any time - I ask anyone who reads this and is a citizen to vote to get some checks and balances to put the Administration in its place. I know that there is some semblence of freedom. Keith Olberman, Air America, the more reasoned press, the non-filtering of the Internet - all these signs show that there is dissent and the voice is getting louder and louder. America will come back.. or there will be civil strife, turmoil and ultimately war. I know and trust my homelands "state media", namely the BBC, because it has kept its editorial independence through World War 2, through things such as the Suez crisis, has criticized the government on a number of occasions and got away with it. I know that they are mandated to be fair and even handed... but still if BBC journalists think things are getting more extreme in the USA they are reporting it in a way that I understand between the "neutralspeak".

May America bless God (or the deity of your own choice). I'll stand by those whowant to protect Americas liberties and freedoms.

My name is Mark Wooldridge and I stand with you all.

[BuyingThyme]

29. I'm with you, Renee.

[jannyk]

31. Jane Edwards, Oakland Ca Another Transplanted Brit

Been here 30 years (of my 55) and this is my fight too.

I live here as a citizen and am ashamed. I look to my homeland and I am ashamed. I have this to say to the wankers in the WH - Bring it on fuckers! Only by defying you can I hold my head high and be proud.