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Article: The mail.(Brief Article)
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- The American Enterprise
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
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While I couldn't agree more with Karl Zinsmeister's comments about the hypocrisy of New York City's Upper East Side elitists (BIRD'S EYE, June), he is wrong to make broad statements about the city's lack of patriotism. A group of neo-Nazi militiamen in Idaho doesn't represent that part of the country any more than a group of sheltered, wealthy socialists in New York represents ours. New York is about individual freedom--just like America. New York City took it on the chin on September 11 because it represents everything that makes America what it is: both the good and the bad.
Eric Paul
New York, New York
Karl Zinsmeister's statement that "New York City ...