I don't know about you guys, but I'm sick and tired of hearing

[woodsprite]

the term "homeland". I don't live in "the homeland". I live in the United States of America. By the Pubs constantly calling it something else, most of our citizens have forgotten who we are and what this country is supposed to be about.

(can ya tell I was listening to Hardball and got ticked!)

[gully]

1. I got ticked for another reason.

I too am nauseated at the "homeland" shit.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2086103&mesg_id=2086103

[woodsprite]

3. My 6yo was flipping channels and landed on it for a few seconds.

Just totally burnt my rear. Thank goodness Spongebob is back on. He provides much more meaningful content ;)

[HysteryDiagnosis]

9. Meanwhile, Amurka is building another homeland, one of

several in Iraq.... or should I say, corporate America is building itself homelands all over the globe.

[WildClarySage]

"Homeland" sounds an awful lot like

"fatherland", doesn't it.

[WildClarySage]

2. "Homeland" sounds an awful lot like

"fatherland", doesn't it.

[Kutjara]

I've hated that damned word from the first time they used it.

It's horribly Orwellian and isolationist, a real fascist mindfuck of a construction.

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. Would you prefer the "Motherland" ? Because that's what's next.

[jellybeancurse]

5. I thought I was the only one

who found that phrase creepy and irritating!

:grouphug:

[pooja]

6. Homeland Security = Police State

Yes, nauseating indeed.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. I hate it too. When they first came up with

the Department of Homeland Security (which I now call the Ministry of Fatherland Security), I immediately thought of some Third Reich-ish agency populated by blue-eyed Aryans wearing brown shirts and shiny black boots. It creeps me out. Der Abteilung des Heimatssicherheit or something like that. Arbeit macht frei. Sieg heil.

[benEzra]

15. It struck me the same way. Seemed an odd choice. (n/t)

[springhill]

24. Yep, me too..........

but then I think they have co-opted most of their strategies and ideas from the Third Reich.

[Rageneau]

8. I wish we were "second-cousin land" instead.

Nobody gets their panties wadded iover a second cousin. Nobody has to buy extra guns and set more traps to protect one. If we were a nice, gentle, non-violent second-cousin land like The Netherlands or Belgium, it would be fine with me.

I don't like ruling or policing the world. And I don't like people who DO like it.

[BeautifulLoser]

10. Used by Dems and Rethugs

It seems like everyone in Washington uses it.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

17. Ahhh, the tried and true "they are all equal" gambit.

Sorry, but no. This is a Republican invention. Any use by Democrats (far less than Republicans) is DINO-ish wimpiness.

And no, references to the DHS don't count, because that's referring to an entity that, although horribly named, does exist.

[zbdent]

11. It's because "Der Faderland" has a bit of negative connotation

and is probably copyrighted ...

[alvarezadams]

12. It's a euphemism for fatherland.

Amerika ubber alles. Got mitt uns.

[sarge43]

13. My 'homeland' is an acre of dirt in NH

My nation is the United States of America.

I'm an adult; I no longer need a daddy god or a mommy land.

[MGD]

14. The word "patriot" is getting on my nerves especially when it's used

in conjuction with the word "act". Talk about a mind virus. Wrap a turd in a flag and all of a sudden it's all American and worth fighting for. My intelligence is insulted by such things daily.

[bluedog]

16. I hate it when"the democrats have no plan"

this started last year............everytime the Democrats say anything about Iraq.....the turn around is "they have no plan"

Even if the Democrats did.......the majority rules.thats GOP............and we know it would never be brought to the floor.........everything gets tabled and killed...........esp............the Democratic bills on many things have been thrown in the garbage.....

this is what the Media won't say...............the Democratic Party tried to get this on the table...........but the republicans never let it be heard.........

[bdamomma]

26. me too, they have had a plan but the stupid RW shoots their

proposals down everytime, the RW'ers don't like the Dems to show them off. Disgusting bunch(the RW'ers)

[Bake]

18. America used to be a melting pot

Where people left their homelands and came to this country seeking a better life. Ya know?

I hate the term "homeland." Only a Puke neoCON could come up with that.

Bake

[Parche]

19. sick of hearing

Homeland
War on terror
cut and run
WMD
islamic facsism
we are fighting them over there so we dont have to fight them here
freedom isnt free
they hate our freedom

[bdamomma]

27. they just love the rhetoric don't they and propaganda

they just keep on repeating and repeating their message to catapult the propaganda.:puke:

[MissMarple]

20. Wasn't there a movie called "Homeland" or something like that?

It was in the 80's and starred Rock Hudson and Cindy Pickett. The United States had been invaded and conquered by communists. This was probably around the time of "Red Dawn" or perhaps a bit earlier. It creeped me out.

[CarlVK]

21. It's Naziesque.

Vaterland. And for a good reason.

[Jed Dilligan]

22. Very strange word choice

Remember the "homelands" under apartheid where black people were banished?

[Tyo]

23. Well at least they were trying....

I think that in their warped little minds the Bushies thought it sounded more warm and fuzzy and would therefore be better accepted than, oh, "The Gestapo" for example. And I suppose they were right.

[bdamomma]

25. me too, wasn't this saying "homeland" adapted from nazi germany

well that explains that, bushie probably heard it from his father, or his grandfather who was a nazi loyalist.