Edited sentence: " Then, wrapped in the flag, he spoke from the throne: "There is nothing patriotic about our pretending that you can love your country but despise your government." This is breathtaking since it includes, at one time or another, most of us.Although Clinton, in order to win elections, did many unwise and opportunistic things, he seldom, like Charles II, ever said an unwise one.But faced with opposition to antiterrorism legislaton that not only gives the attorney general the power to use the armed services against the civilian population, neatly nullifying the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, it also selectively, suspends habeas corpus, the  heart of Angle-American liberty.Clinton attacked his critics as "unpatriotic.GORE VIDAL, Perpetual War, Perpetual Peace.In April 1996, one year after the Oklahoma City bombing, President Clinton signed into law the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, a so called conference bill in which many grubby hands played a part, including the bill's cosponsor Senator Majority leader Dole.Put another way, was a German in 1939 who said that he detested the Nazi dictatorship unpatriotic