Liz Cheney is UnAmerican
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Liz Cheney wants us to question the values of lawyers who would represent terrorist suspects at trial. She wants us to question the Department of Justice that employs them and its credibility in the area of Justice if it is in the practice of hiring people who defend the guilty.
This is, aside from being idiotic, thoroughly unAmerican.
What does it mean to be American? An American is not someone born here. An American is not someone with a particular religion or one of a specific set of last names. We are Americans because we subscribe to a particular form of government: A
read on“Are You?” by Dorothea Tanning
If an expatriate is, as I believe, someone
who never forgets for an instant
being one,
then, no.
But, if knowing that you always
tote your country around
with you, your roots,
a lump
like a soul that will never leave you
stranded in alien subsets of
yourself, or your wild
entire;
that being elsewhere packs a vertigo,
a tightrope side you cannot
pass up, another way
to show
how not to break your pretty neck
falling on skylights:
reward-laden
mirages;
then, yes. All homes are home; mirages
everywhere. Aside from
gravity, there are no
limits,
never were, nor will there ever be,
no here and there to foil
your lotus-dreaming
legend.
Stay on the planet, if you can. It isn’t
all that chilly and what’s more,
grows warmer by