Loyalty day 2005- Is this for real?

[jasmeel]

Is this for real or a joke? Someone told me about it and I hadn't heard anything about it. Was anyone questionning people's loyalty to this country except the repubs?

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/04/20050429-19.html

Loyalty Day, 2005
A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America

Generations of men and women have sacrificed to defend the basic principles of liberty upon which our Nation was founded. This spirit of selfless service helps keep America strong and free. On Loyalty Day, we join together to celebrate this bond that makes our country great.
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The Congress, by Public Law 85 529, as amended, has designated May 1 of each year as "Loyalty Day." On Loyalty Day, we honor our great Nation and the people who help keep it safe and strong. I ask all Americans to join me in this day of celebration and in reaffirming our allegiance to our Nation.
<snip>
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim May 1, 2005, as Loyalty Day. I call upon all the people of the United States to join in support of this national observance, and to display the flag of the United States on Loyalty Day. <snip>

[Kerrytravelers]

1. I wouldn't be surprised if this was true. Lolalty... blind loyalty...

is all this group of merry murders know.

[FloridaPat]

2. Sure was quietly celebrated. Let's see - communism had May Day

which I believe was on May 1. All their citizens needed passports to go anywhere beyond local. I just real they're working on that here. Hmmmmm. Sounds live we're going dictatorship. In Russia though everyone had a job, food prices were controlled and so were apartment prices. Airlines were nationalized, national health care, the the government had control of all the tv channels. I have a feeling we will get the worst of that, not the few better deals. Unless everyone out of work is drafted. That would give full employment.

[Lerkfish]

3. LOL! shades of communist USSR's "Mayday" parades....

march, march, admire the phallic missiles, march, march, goosestep...er...how'd THAT get in there?

[noamnety]

4. May Day, Soviet Union

I knew we were missing something!

[Democrats_win]

5. Started in '20s in response to May Day. Today: response to Cinco de Mayo?

That's the way I see it. In Lafayette, CO, it will be celebrated on May 7th. (They have signs everywhere.) I think this happened in response to Cinco de Mayo celebrations. Someone a few years ago wrote a letter to the local paper about this...yada, yada yoda. They decided to celebrate Loyalty day.

Lafayette is a very nice liberal town with Kerry stickers still proudly displayed. One of the schools has an excellent bilingual program that teaches students Spanish. But it takes just one angry republican. Oh well, people won't look at this origin, they'll just enjoy whatever is planned.

[EC]

6. I just knew that little pig wanted to stand out on the balcony

of the White House as troops, tank, aircraft and other war machines passed by in a parade to show our strength...(maybe that why they'll get some use out of planes Rummy keeps ordering that are useless)

[paineinthearse]

7. It's a subversion of May Day

Add Public Law 85 529 to the shitcan list for when we get back in power.

If this law had been in effect in 1775, imagine this scenerio: It's May 1, two weeks after the battles of Lexington and Concord. Suddenly all the residents of Middlesex and Suffolk counties relize the wrong they had done against the crown and surrender their arms.

Sheesh!