Are you willing to die to save your country?

[burythehatchet]

yes or no.

[cigsandcoffee]

1. Yes

Not the land, but the idea.

[gator_in_Ontario]

interesting

I was thinking the land and the idea, but not the feeling of superiority

[BuyingThyme]

2. I think I'm going to find out soon.

[burythehatchet]

7. then your answer is yes

[5X]

3. No, this country, in its current state, is not worth it.

IMHO

[breakaleg]

4. No. But I appreciate those who do.

[bdamomma]

5. yes

[rockymountaindem]

6. Yes

[Bonobo]

8. Nope. I'd do what Woody Allen proposed in "Love and Death".

I would flee. F-L-E-A. Flee.

I come from a long line of flee-ers.

[april]

9. I would rather live and talk about saving my counrty

[burythehatchet]

20. that's cool

but we've been talking for 6 years now.

[Glorfindel]

10. Not anymore...I'd leave if I could afford it

and spend my remaining years in blissful ignorance in French Polynesia, combing the beach and reading 19th century English novels.

[tech3149]

11. Dying to save your country is easy

Living to save it is a lot harder.

[Freedomofspeech]

14. Excellent..

thank you.

[MikeNearMcChord]

17. I love that quote,

That would be a great sig line. And all should adopt that attitude. May I borrow that?

[tech3149]

25. Please feel free, human knowledge should be freely shared n/t

[vixengrl]

18. This is how I feel.

I think if conscripted, I'd serve, but I'd far rather be a part of the process of making my country safe in a different way. One that might require constant care--educating, speaking out, encouraging the American ideal (as in--the Bill of Rights freedoms and so on).

[Lydia Leftcoast]

12. No

A country is an abstraction.

Maybe for someone I loved or for a principle, but not for acreage.

[burythehatchet]

15. ok then, the ideas that are embodied in the constitution of the

united states.

[skids]

39. For whose benefit?

For the $160K/year numnut middle manager asshole that cut me off in his SUV on the way to a sporting event and if I were starving on the corner would tell me to "get a job?" No.

Ideals aren't worth dying for unless the beneficiaries are too. "Not a good Samaritan" exception to the "love thy neighbor" clause.

[Jcrowley]

13. Interesting question

From whom? Would that enemy be an illusory external bogeyman or the very real threat of the internal threat who does not at all appear to be like "The Other."

[katsy]

16. For freedom, yes.

For this country... no.

[karlrschneider]

19. No.

I don't have the time to go into detail right now, but ... no.

[Greeby]

21. Like General Patton said

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/General_George_S._Patton%2C_Jr

Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. :evilgrin:

[burythehatchet]

22. you know very well

that much blood will be shed. Ours and theirs.

[DearAbby]

48. Yeaaaas, I sorta like what Patton...

had to say on the topic.

[TomInTib]

23. Not any longer...

Not this country...

I spent 39 months in combat for the wrong country way back when.

I am willing to die only for my loved ones.

Not beliefs.

Not principles.

Not patriotism.

Not goodness.

Not Ideals.

Not nothing...

Just for the ones who mean something to me and me to them.

[Spiffarino]

24. Save it from what?

I'll die to save my children's America from authoritarian rule. I'm not sure I'd die to save it from a clear majority of dunces who neither understand nor care to understand what this country is all about.

[lumberjack_jeff]

26. Yes, but this country isn't mine any more.

[dave502d]

27. In 2000 and 2004 yes, today maybe a leg. n/t

[babylonsister]

28. That's what the dead soldiers thought they were dying for.

How sad is that?

[TygrBright]

29. I would die to save our Constitution. Not necessarily the...

unConstitutional mess that appears to be evolving here.

sadly,
Bright

[benddem]

30. I've been through this

but would do it again if I thought they'd take care of my Mom.

[Rex]

31. I refuse to die and will save my country.

nt

[StellaBlue]

32. No.

Edited to add:

and the world would be a better place if no one was willing to die or kill for any ideas.

[w8liftinglady]

33. it depends...

if it means my kids will have a chance at freedom...you bet

[valerief]

34. Not any more. n/t

[gulfcoastliberal]

35. I'd be willing to die if jackbooted thugs rammed down my door.

And I'd take as many of them with me as possible.

If I can sell my properties i tis housing crash - off to New Zealand. If I have to stay here, well at least I have many thousands of rounds of ammo for self-defense.

[Dem2theMax]

36. My beloved America is dead.

(Edited to add)

In Brown v. Vasquez, 952 F.2d 1164, 1166 (9th Cir. 1991), cert. denied, 112 S.Ct. 1778 (1992), the court observed that the Supreme Court has "recognized the fact that`the writ of habeas corpus is the fundamental instrument for safeguarding individual freedom against arbitrary and lawless state action.' Harris v. Nelson, 394 U.S. 286, 290-91 (1969). " Therefore, the writ must be "administered with the initiative and flexibility essential to insure that miscarriages of justice within its reach are surfaced and corrected." Harris, 394 U.S. at 291.

http://www.lectlaw.com/def/h001.htm


Like I said, my America is dead.

[lonestarnot]

37. This goddamn place isn't looking anything like my country any

more. Hell no! I wouldn't wanna die for these son of a bitches. I may croak fighting the bastards though!

[FedUpWithIt All]

38. I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees...

I hope if it ever comes down to these two options, i will stand up and die for what i believe is right.

I know that the battle for this country is really a battle against a group that does not care about the poor, the elderly, the children, the sick, the hungry, the abused, the dead...in this country or any other. Their victims are not only their perceived enemies. They send their own nation's children to die for profit. I feel responsibility. I feel responsibility for all those who are terrorized by my nations hand. They died, grieved and starved while i lived, loved and ate. The mess belongs to me.

I did not vote for them, I never supported them, i spoke out against them at every turn BUT I DID NOT STOP THEM. Others have paid the price for my nations folly and i am ashamed. I watched as my country attempted to force others to live on their knees. They are dying on their feet every day. Other peoples children are already living the nightmare i fear for my children.

If i do not fight for my country, my country will continue to lie, steal destroy and kill IN MY NAME. Yes, i would die for my country, so my own children won't and other people's children do not have to...anymore.

[raysr]

40. Hell no.

[Marie26]

41. Yes

But I suggest canvassing & volunteering first. It's all very melodramatic & noble to talk about dying for your country, but it doesn't mean much if people aren't willing to do the small things in their everyday lives to change things.

[Blackthorn]

42. Not. A. Chance.

[Neoma]

43. I'd die for the world.

And nothing else.

[cynatnite]

44. I'm still thinking about it n/t

[NuttyFluffers]

45. i'm willing to live to restore its dream.

that's harder.

[bowens43]

46. No.

A country is a granfalloon.

[madokie]

47. I guess that is a question I will be asked until I die

I put actions in place of words years ago