] When President Bush visited Atlanta in mid-February,
] suburban housewife Sally Rountree decided to take the
] opportunity to show her opposition to the probable
] invasion of Iraq. So she scribbled a homemade sign - "No
] War for Oil" - and found a place along the route of the
] presidential motorcade, hoping Bush would see her
] protest.
]
] As she tells it, she was never rude. She didn't shout.
] She didn't elbow other onlookers or jostle toward the
] front of the crowd. She merely stood holding her sign.
]
] Nevertheless, for the offense of exercising her rights as
] a citizen of one of the world's greatest democracies, she
] was spat on, threatened and yelled at. One man went so
] far as to denounce her for wearing a cross around her
] neck, "insinuating I was not a Christian," she said.
]
] As she wrote in an op-ed essay for the Atlanta Journal-
] Constitution: "I was frightened that my neighbors were
] going to hurt me because I dared to express my opinion.
] This could not be happening. Not in America, right?"
]
] But it is happening here.

Pseudo patriotism vs. American values