What is your definition of "Anti-American"?

Answer 1

Someone who despises the American way of life.

Answer 2

In my opinion there are many types of "Anti-Americans" but the worse kind are the people that don't vote, don't keep up on world events, don't have a clue who their state senators or their state governor is -- and yet all they do is bi*ch and moan about how things are run. They're disrespectful to the Office of the Presidency and yet, if things are so bad here in the U.S., why don't they just leave? Those are the same "Americans" who take full advantage of all the freedoms and give-away programs that are offered and then they turn around and piss and moan because they don't get more given to them. They bad mouth our military, but let someone come into their home and take away their computer, T.V., telephone and half their food - they would be the first ones screaming about their rights being violated. Anti-Americans are people who do not realize their freedoms were paid for in blood and still are being paid for in blood. But it's not their blood so they really don't care.

Answer 3

Simply, "Anti-American" is anyone who does not embrace the principles our founding fathers laid out in the Bill of Rights or The Constitution of The United States of America. Anti-American is someone that blindly follows a political party or a president without implementing any checks and balances. Anti-American is anyone in this country that does not embrace the right of dissent in order to protect all other Americans/American Values.

Answer 4

Recently it has come to mean those who do not support the war in Iraq or those who criticise the decisions of certain people promoting the war namely George Bush. Dissent is now termed disloyalty.

It is no different from when the USA went to war in 1917.

An excerpt from “War Is A Racket” by Two-Time Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient: Major General Smedley D. Butler, USMC:

“Looking back, Woodrow Wilson was re-elected president in 1916 on a platform that he had "kept us out of war" and on the implied promise that he would "keep us out of war." Yet, five months later he asked Congress to declare war on Germany.

In that five-month interval the people had not been asked whether they had changed their minds. The 4,000,000 young men who put on uniforms and marched or sailed away were not asked whether they wanted to go forth to suffer and die.

Then what caused our government to change its mind so suddenly?

Money.

An allied commission, it may be recalled, came over shortly before the war declaration and called on the President. The President summoned a group of advisers. The head of the commission spoke. Stripped of its diplomatic language, this is what he told the President and his group:


"There is no use kidding ourselves any longer. The cause of the allies is lost. We now owe you (American bankers, American munitions makers, American manufacturers, American speculators, American exporters) five or six billion dollars.

If we lose (and without the help of the United States we must lose) we, England, France and Italy, cannot pay back this money...and Germany won't.

So..."

When the USA did enter the war, suddenly laws were passed equating the expression of antiwar sentiments with espionage. Those who denounced war could be sentenced to as much as 25 years in prison yet 142 were sentenced to life and 17 were sentenced to death. Many others were badly beaten and abused in prison. The government even allowed gangs to beat and even tar and feather war resistors and forced them to kiss the flag.

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official... ~Theodore Roosevelt

Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly. ~Senator Robert M. La Follette

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. ~Marie Beyle

Answer 5

Unreasonable criticism of American politics, culture, society, its people etc. For example:

* focussing excessively on American shortcomings but not on the shortcomings of other countries
* attributing America and its policies as being the 'root cause' of a certain problem (e.g.: global warming, civilian deaths in Iraq), but not considering other more obvious reasons.
* criticism based on not what Americans DO, but what Americans ARE (e.g.: "Americans are fat")

Answer 6

Working against the good of the country

Answer 7

Anyone who hates America or believes America is to blame for all the world's problems.

Answer 8

It is rather complicated, but here is one aspect of it: Any politician who puts his or her own personal agenda ahead of the good of the country and the needs of all the people, as a true public servant would do....and any private citizen who supports the politician instead of the public servant.**

Answer 9

Someone who take concientious steps to hinder, disable, or prevent the United States from fulfilling it's duties. Someone who concientiously works or calls for the defeat of America, to me calling for a pull-out does not count in this matter, but cheering for defeat is.
There are few examples that I believe can really be cited. John Kerry in the 70's is one example, however.

Answer 10

People who have a political agenda that involves subverting the Constitutional Separation of Powers, redefining free speech, and applying freedom of religion in a manner which offends the majority of Americans. The ACLU comes to mind.