Shut up and wave the flag

Kurt Nimmo:

Let's face it. Since it's not our kids hurt, not our neighbors killed, most of Americans don't care what the US government does in Iraq. Most Americans don't care what the rest of the world thinks, they are oblivious to calls for peace and sanity.

"American support for presidents tends to surge during international conflict or crisis, a phenomenon well-documented in the last century that has come to the forefront of national politics in the last 12 years," writes John Buchel. "The phenomenon is known as the 'rally 'round the flag' effect, or simply the rally effect...The rally effect is evident in current public opinion polls that rate Bush's approval at around 70 percent..."

Let's call it the "rally 'round murder" effect instead.

In Switzerland, nearly all citizens have put white flags on their roofs, as a sign of peace and opposition to the ongoing invasion. The Swiss know right from wrong, unlike the Americans. The Swiss Foreign Ministry has decided to document US-British war crimes against Iraqi civilians.

"The initial data available so far reveals the dirtiness of U.S.-British warmongers, the fakeness of their claims about a clean war, as well as their indifference to the lives of innocent, unarmed Iraqi civilians," said Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy Rey.

Not only is the US government indifferent, so are millions of average Americans. Of course, on 9/11, they demanded the entire world grieve with them, now they expect the whole world to back them in pointless and criminal mass murder of innocent people who have absolutely nothing to do with 9/11.

But it's not only indifference to murder or supporting it by supporting Bush the unpresident -- now you are expected to shut up and not make your opposition known.

"Freedom of speech has many prices," writes Gene Schenck of Lower Windsor Township, Pennsylvania. "The soldiers who died for this country in many wars have paid for it over and over. Free speech also carries a cost for those free speakers who might suffer the scorn of their fellow citizens. But those who undermine their own country at this crucial time need to know they encourage the enemy to keep fighting and the price tag for that is additional risk for the soldiers who serve your nation. Those soldiers represent you, your nation and its unique freedoms. Shame on those of you who undermine your country's strength at this critical moment."

Shame on you for opposing mass murder. Now shut up and wave your little plastic flag.