Flutterby™! : More Good Shepherd

This morning I stumbled across a blog entry about how the FBI considered It's A Wonderful Life communist propaganda. And I read the Wikipedia article on James Jesus Angleton, the man on whom Matt Damon's character Edward Wilson in The Good Shepherd is allegedly based on.

As I read through both of them, I was reminded that that there's a difference between believing in something, and believing in the ideals that underlie something, and in these times and with these politics it's good to have a reminder that many of those who believe in the United States of American have little to no regard for the ideals that underlie it, just in the notion of it.