What is a patriot?

Many people are confused about what a patriot is. Hopefully this will clarify things a bit for some of you who believe yourselves to be patriots, but are finding yourselves at odds with defending many of the unpatriotic laws passed by our elected officials.

The dictionary's definition of patriot is very lacking.

For example according to the 1956 Concise Edition of Webster's New World Dictionary (New World??? Oh, New Socialist world.) we find

patriot - one who loves and zealously supports his own country.

And according to the 1989 Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language we find

patriot - a person who loves, supports and defends his country and its interests with devotion.

Obviously, the definition of a patriot has changed since the mid 1900's and the popularizing of the Socialist movement. The men who fought to create the United States of America were actually citizens of England, yet they were referred to as patriots. In todays society, we are lead to believe that if you do not support everything that your country asks of you, then you must not be a patriot. Let us try to fill in where the dictionary falls short.

Patriot

A patriot is one who believes in a set of ideals, who will fight to the death to defend those ideals and support his country's effort to uphold those ideals. A true patriot will defend his country so long as it sticks to those ideals. If one were to believe in the definition in the dictionary, it would be acceptable for a patriot to defend freedom, because his country upholds that ideal, then start defending socialism, because his country is pushing that ideal.

Patriotism in the US of A is the devoted support and defense of our Constitution. That is what makes our country what we love and support. When we start seeing politicians shamefully using our fighting men and women of the military for police activity in other countries around the world claiming that it is in our countries interests, it is time to stop that politician from being able to act as an elected official and vote him out no matter who the competition is. Just because a politician calls our interferrence into another country's internal, or external, affairs our country's interests doesn't make it so.

Just remember when a socialist politician is claiming that you are not a patriot if you don't defend the politician's way of doing things, he is just a politician who can be voted out. It is absolutely essential that you do not vote for the same politician a second time if he practices politics outside the limitations of the Constitution, for example defending the Social Security system.

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By Anne Broache
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Published: March 26, 2007, 3:01 PM PDT
Last modified: March 26, 2007, 4:01 PM PDT

Leaders of a U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs panel joined a chorus of outsiders, including many state government officials, who have questioned the costs and privacy implications of the congressionally mandated shift to identification cards that must adhere to a bevy of national standards.