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In my humble opinion our elected officials in Washington and media personalities fall into one of three categories on any given issue:

Pirates are elected officials whose position, propoganda, and most importantly vote on an issue result in the loss of liberty and/or misappropriation of treasury funds. This is especially true when those elected officials find a way to funnel funds (beyond their normal federal pay) into their own pockets or to companies and agencies that in return provide those elected officials with some form of financial or political gain.

Parrots...a.k.a. zombieparrots... are elected officials and media personalities who squawk partyline propoganda on any issue without regard for its truth, justice or compliance with the American way. An elected official or media personality is not a parrot if they are informed and are expressing what may be a partisan partyline opinion that is supported by the facts.

Patriots are the rarest of elected offical and media personality because real patriots are guided by conscience and not mobs or ratings. Patriots exercise dilligence by reading proposed legislation and critically examining the qualifications and performance of those nominated to high office. They do not support legislation or nominees, that offend their conscience, and which would lead to acts or empower a person or persons to commit acts which are repugnate to the Constitution of the United States . Patriots stand on principle because principles are what seperate us from the facists, socialists, and communists. Our history clearly demonstrates that our principles act as our moral compass that can take us to higher ground while the good intentions facisim, socialism and communism have succumbed to the corruption wrought by the nature of man. Patriots respect the principles of checks, balances and limited government recognized by our founding fathers that hold that men and by virture of that fact governments are inheriently corrupt. Patriots recognize that the system is not broken but that the system is only as good as their character and their ability to withstand the influences of corruption inherrient in politics today.