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There's a reason I hate the Philadelphia "Pinkquirer" more than I loath the New York Times. Maureen Dowd doesn't bother me with her downright vicious columns on Laura Bush's "omnivorous fiction reading." I'm not disturbed in the least by Paul Krugman's commentaries on the obvious rise in gas prices. (We hadn't noticed that gas hit $4!) I shrug when Frank Rich gay-baits God. Sure, if it matters that much to Keith Olbermann, Bush is comparable to Hitler.

But if there's one thing that really gets me steamed, it's when Chris Satullo of the Philadelphia Inquirer picks up his pen.

On July First, the Pinkquirer published one of Satullo's columns which was, by far, the worst ever to be written by such a clodhopping, treasonous toad. His quite boring column came to the point that America was unfit to celebrate its Independence this year. But don't you dare question Mr. Satullo's patriotism!

In response to sheer outrage from every patriotic person on the planet, Mr. Satullo suggested that he was merely exercising his American right to Freedom of Speech. Observe as I exercise mine.

In his column, Satullo wrote:

"We have failed to pay attention. We've settled for lame excuses. We've spit on the memory of those who did that brave, brave thing in Philadelphia 232 years ago.

"The America those men founded should never torture a prisoner.

"The America they founded should never imprison people for years without charge or hearing.

"The America they founded should never ship prisoners to foreign lands, knowing their new jailers might torture them.

"Such abuses once were committed by the arrogant crowns of Europe, spawning rebellion.

"Today, our nation does such things in the name of our safety. Petrified, unwilling to take the risks that love of liberty demands, we close our eyes."

Of course, defending America and the world from psychotic, bomb-crazed, American flag-burning Islamofascists is a "lame excuse" to go to war.

While the terrorists don't do anything as starkly evil as raise the tax on tea, they do bomb US Embassies, fly planes into New York skyscrapers, and rig retarded women with suicide bombs, which detonate and kill US soldiers. As a matter of fact, the War in Iraq is far more important to the protection of our American rights than the Revolutionary War ever was.

If we have to detain thousands of unquestionably guilty war criminals, then we will. There is no record or proof of any form of torture or interrogation being used against detainees at Guantanamo Bay.

Major Kyndra Rotunda served as the adviser to the Detention Camp Commander. She followed him everywhere, and said she had never seen or heard of interrogation or torture during her four years at Guantanamo Bay. She appeared on Hannity's America and said that every prisoner was given a free copy of the Koran, a free prayer rug, a free bottle of prayer oil, and no prisoner could be disturbed for several hours each day as part of their prayer time - even if they weren't praying. Major Rotunda even attested that Guantanamo Bay detainees were served gourmet meals. We're really torturing them, aren't we?

When his pathetic excuse for an opinion backfired on him, Mr. Satullo asked when America will move past the belief that someone who criticizes his country is unpatriotic. As a rule of thumb, people who slander their country tend to give off the impression that they hate their country - thus the "unpatriotic" label. Understand now, Mr. Satullo?

To compare our actions to that of the British troops in the colonies is treasonous. Point-blank. Mr. Satullo is the sole piece of evidence that McCain Adviser Gramm needs to prove that America is in a mental recession, and heading straight for a mental depression. As long as Mr. Satullo blows his odd-shaped nose and continues to call the tissue a column, America will be in a mental recession.

Despite Chris Satullo's whining, I think I'll find something to celebrate every July 4th - my freedom, my independence, my rights - something like that. I celebrate the fact that I have rights, that I am free, and that America is independent from the totalitarian regime that once ruled it. I'm proud of everything America stands for - "liberty and justice for all" - even if Mr. Satullo isn't.