https://youtu.be/xkWjrsx9cXg


Pretty crazy it's almost 40 years later and that exact conversation is happening in he's all over the country.

What kind of a name is stivic? Huh? Where you from? Oh. Uh, Chicago.
I mean, what's your nationality? I'm an American.
I mean, where are your people from? They're from Poland.
That would make you Polish then, huh? Yeah.
Anything interesting in the paper? Yeah.
Two hundred arrested at a Vietnam day peace demonstration.
Two hundred.
They should've thrown the whole bunch of them in the can.
Look at that picture there.
Here they are.
Throwing all kinds of junk and "deebris" at officers of the law.
Desecrating on the American flag.
What the hell do them peaceniks want anyhow? Well, I think they just don't like the idea Of America fighting an illegal and immoral war.
Well, if they don't like it, they can lump it.
Take it down the road and dump it.
You're saying, "America, love it or leave it"? That's right.
It's a free country, so amscray.
Well, that would include me too, Mr.
bunker.
Then toodle-oo to you too.
What would our leaving solve? With or without protests, this country would still have the same problems.
What problems? The war, the racial problem, the economic problem, the pollution problem.
Come on.
If you wanna nitpick-- nitpick? Let me tell you something, Mr.
bunker.
Let me tell you something, Mr.
stivic.
You are a meathead.
- What did you call me? - A meathead.
Dead from the neck up.
Meathead.
Yeah, now I see what your idea of a free country is.
You're free to say anything you want, but if anyone disagrees with you, they're thrown into jail or called a meathead, right? That's right, 'cause this is America, land that I love.
I love it too, and it's because I do, I protest when I think things are wrong.
Then stand beside her And guide her The right to dissent is the principle upon which this country is based.
Through the night with the light from above.
It's in the bill of rights.
From the mountains to the prairies, why do you think we broke away from england in the first place? To the oceans, white with foam.
We demanded freedom.
It's guys like you who don't listen to reason.
God bless America, you're not listening to anything.
You dumb polack, you're prejudice! You're prejudice! My home sweet home.
I'm leaving! God bless America you're prejudice! Archie! Get away from me.
My home sweet hom

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Much of the anthem business reminds me of the Christmas episode with the draft dodger.....so many of the same arguments.