"These days, to be "patriotic" means to wave the flag and shout slogans whenever the mass media deem it appropriate. It means to cheer the government whenever the government decides to use its cruise missiles or its smart bombs to kill a bunch of people in some other country, regardless of the reason. Instead of blood-based patriotism, today we have government-based patriotism. If you wave the flag and support the government, you're a patriot. If you don't like what the government is doing and you say so, then all of the flag-waving, slogan-shouting yahoos look at you as if you were the enemy."
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The New Patriotism, 2002
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William Luther Pierce
William Luther Pierce III (September 11, 1933 – July 23, 2002) was an American white nationalist and a fascist political activist. A physicist by profession, he was also an author under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald of the novels The Turner Diaries (which has been linked to the perpetuator of th
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