Actually, I received several. I was also in the NHS, selected for Who's Who Among American High School Students, the Dean's List every term in college, the recipient of the Catherine Craig-Erhard Award as the outstanding miitary graduate from my University, and the honor graduate of every military school that I've attended.
Tear it down to save it? Preposterous! Osama the Terrorist in Chief is tearing it down - the tea partiers are not and I never heard of a militia member that was a terrorist (Timothy McVeigh was NOT a militia member). Can you name a single tea partier or militia member that was a terrorist?
What annoys me most that folks are lashing out against socialism, is that their definition of socialism is so broad. Someone believes ONE thing anti right wing and automatically they're called a "socialist". No middle ground...that is witch hunt material.
Like I said before, believe what you want, but tone down the rhetoric, planning 25 million americans dead with a socialist takeover???? WTH, that is so senseless, I can't even fathom it.
In order to get that done, don't you have to take over the military??? Don't you have to rule the government with fear like a dictator(like the REAL Hussain aka Saddam)??? Last time I checked the right wing folks in the government were no pushovers. Last time I checked, the general public wasn't fanatical about their leader. So how exactly are these 25 million people going to end up DEAD???It makes NO SENSE, stop conjuring up boogeymen and fairy tales!
If right-wing talking heads are telling Joe Sixpack, "This is WAR! Your government Fuhrer Obama is GOING TO KILL YOU!", then sooner or later 80-IQ-Points Joe is going to take it out on a Post Office or Police Station. Then we may have a change in what kind of flammable rhetoric is allowed. Or perhaps opposing views have to be aired as well on the far-right stations.
Just like it is illegal to yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater, albeit we have Freedom of Speech, I believe it illegal to yell "WAR!" when all it is-- is political differences in points-of-view.