tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-616232773722371822.post7523624498527649428..comments2014-03-17T13:07:51.983+00:00Comments on New Leadership: The English Democrats: a civic nationalist dustbinDr Andrew Emersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05861447055515423401noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-616232773722371822.post-72281735776139530722011-04-25T23:10:09.006+01:002011-04-25T23:10:09.006+01:00wimwauters
This is not my article but was written...wimwauters<br /><br />This is not my article but was written by the former legal officer of the British National Party, Lee Barnes.<br /><br />I agree with your criticism of Lee's tendentious definition of the word patriot, to the meaning of which he has to do violence in order to set up a specious contradistinction between it and the word nationalist, which are in fact synonyms.Dr Andrew Emersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05861447055515423401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-616232773722371822.post-22362078166837576912011-04-25T20:57:14.982+01:002011-04-25T20:57:14.982+01:00A lot of patriots in the USA would very much disag...A lot of patriots in the USA would very much disagree with your statement: "A patriot is simply a lickspittle of whatever corporate media elected political puppet government is in power, and their cry of 'My country right and wrong' is the cry of the feeble minded idiot." <br /><br />Your definition of patriot is the one you would expect from the government's perspective, while most actual patriots tend to be of the 'historical' type: i.e. in the USA they want the ideology of the constitution to be respected, and in the UK they would be supporters of the Magna Carta.wimwautershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04875781247587841723noreply@blogger.com