Happy Free Day, Dudes.

Why don’t you celebrate being free by joining up with the people fighting to keep it that way? I know, you’re going to say that it’s “the troops” who defend my freedom, while I sit here and drink expensive coffee — those for whom I have infinite love, being the offspring of a soldier.

But last time I checked, the US Constitution makes me free. And, forgive me, but I don’t recall anyone in Iraq trying to take little freedoms away from me, or other US citizens that are guaranteed by the Constitution. What? Oh, yeah? Huh? Yeah. It’s your President who’s trying to do that. And to whom we’ve already given some away by electing him again. I know, “the terrorists” want us to be afraid and thereby less free. Well, that’s a choice no one can make for us, despite our current administration trying to scare the shit out of us more than the baddies.

I’m quite tired of the stupid emails written by semi-literate morons about how Osama wants to take away all our freedom and how the war is fighting that. I’m tired of hearing about how modern soldiers defend my free speech, and I’m tired of hearing people who say that go on to complain about how I use it. First, no! No man with a gun fights for our free speech overseas. And if so, why fight for something like that unless you’re totally cool with any way that we would use it? Indeed, all those who would take away our free speech are here, and we can’t fight them with guns.

Yeah, it’s…distasteful to bitch like this on the 4th when so many of my fellow Americans have to celebrate in foxholes. It’s worse to have put them there, though, no? Or to have voted for the bastard that did it a second time? Yeah, I’m talking to you, America. Rather than the magnetic ribbons on your SUVs and the false mass emails with poor grammar, the best thing you could have done to support the troops would have been not to support their being where they are. When you voted for Stupid Monkey Face again, well, isn’t that a little hypocritical if you say you support the troops? And then you blame “liberals” and the ACLU for how messed up things are and how split we are as a nation.

Where am I going with this? I don’t know. I suppose I demand the right to consider myself patriotic, despite not supporting our President or most of the people who call this country home. I don’t like the implication that I don’t love my country because I see a lot of things wrong with it. Indeed, if I did not love it, I would not be bothered by its flaws. I hate when people imply that I don’t support the troops because I don’t support the war. You know what? You can’t support the troops if you support the war! Unless you think being over there is fun for anyone, how can you say you support people that you have supported being there? Like the constant photos of it demonstrate, I love Fort McHenry. It reminds me of the America that’s worth fighting for. And that means fighting the right people, though I of course don’t mean to storm Washington with guns. They have bigger guns. That would be stupid.

[Oh, yeah. Would-be anonymous comment-trolls: save your time and mine.]