"Peace is not patriotic," DeGenova began. "Peace is subversive, because peace anticipates a very different world than the one in which we live--a world where the U.S. would have no place."

"U.S. patriotism is inseparable from imperial warfare and white supremacy," he said. "U.S. flags are the emblem of the invading war machine in Iraq today. They are the emblem of the occupying power. The only true heroes are those who find ways that help defeat the U.S. military."

--One of the speakers at yesterday's brainwashing session (they call it by the Orwellian name "teach-in") at Columbia University. I don't think I need to point out that what is being urged here is, incontrovertibly, treason.