You know the word, homeland. The Nazis had the "Fatherland", the Soviets had the "Motherland" and now we have the "Homeland". Do you see a pattern here? I still can't help but shudder to hear people use that word and not make these connections each time they do. Perhaps it was done as a sort of litmus test, a brazen trial balloon to see how much "freedom loving" Americans would accept. Would we accept referring to our country in a way that was SO reminiscent of some of the most despotic regimes ever known? If we accept this we are opening ourselves conceptually to the same horrors, or at least signalling our willingness to look away as those horrors are meted out in our name.
There is no "homeland". There is only the United States of America, and the USA is nothing more or less than the Constitution of the United States of America. If you aren't with the Constitution then you are with proto-fascists of "the Homeland".
Turn on the TV right now, I bet you can see one of those screaming little beasties!
Fuck the homeland!
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