I got to be true to myself!

"For me, the flag represents... the way it's used in the US, and in other places around the world, "I am an American, and you are a Canadian, and you are Mexican, therefore, you can be treated differently than I can. If you live above that parallel line, you are Canadian, therefore you are different than me. I think that that is a fundamental problem with the way we see people. It can be the exact same person on one side of the border or on the other side, but you are treated differently, you have different rights, different expectations of what you can achieve. That is one aspect of what it represents...
The other aspect is as a policy tool to get young men and women to go off and fight and die for empire, for religion of the country. People say "We need to fight this war", you have to do it because we're waving this flag. I think that doesn't make any sense. Just because you proverbially wrap yourself in the flag, it doesn't mean that I have to accept everything that you say. And if I disagree with you, then I'm some type of traitor or bad person. Those are the two ways that I think that the flag is used that are negative ways."

"I think that that is one of the things that we try to do. Not to be on a high horse, but I think that the activism and the music that we create is trying to achieve a goal and just saying somebody's bad is not achieving the goal. We're trying to get messages and ideas out, show how people can take action and why we feel the way we do. These are actions that we take and that you might be interested in too. Sometimes it's much easier and much more fun to say "that dude is a horrible guy" and leave it at that. We do try to back up what we say with facts and ideas." —  Pat Thetic (Anti-Flag)

Ez már megint annak a tipikus esete, amikor odamennék valakihez és azt mondanám: "Kedves xy, köszönöm, hogy létezel!" Eddig oda meg vissza voltam Chris #2-ért és egy kicsit Justin Sane-ért, de elolvastam egy interjút Pat-tel, és rájöttem, hogy ő is olyan intelligens és követendő, mint Chris és Justin.