who the fuck would take pride in something as heartless as a government? i have never had a say in who's telling me what to do, and beyond my town treasurer or that sort of shit i never will. you don't stand to respect someone or something unless you actually have respect for them. fuck america. fuck george bush. fuck jimmy lloyd from blacksburg, oregon who was shot in iraq. there was no draft. anybody who signs up for war is asking to be killed. they want a bullet to tear through their eyeball and ricochet in their skull. how did he die for me? did he die in a war against a dark empire hellbent on invading the good old united states of assholes? did he take his gun to the beaurocrats and say "allow these good people to smoke their marijuana. they aren't hurting anybody.", or did he volunteer to kill and be killed so he didn't have to pay for college? i stand for the pledge every day, but only so as to avoid the trouble of explaining this to each and every idiot who thinks i should respect the legal mafia killing each other in their gang wars. i am not under god, i am above him. i am above the influence of those that would send me to slaughter their enemies, only to die, to achieve their political or economic goals.