Patriot Day
September 11, 2012
I just realized that today is Patriot Day, not to be confused with Patriot’s Day. Not a federal holiday yet, but just wait a few years. Not sure why 9/11 is called Patriot Day. Perhaps Payback Day or Blowback Day or Federal Failure Day or Government Incompetence Day would be a better name for it. But of course, I’m not sure what the evil Patriot Act has to do with patriotism either.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
Thomas Szasz, RIP