RMS: a patiot?

[Max Moritz Sievers]

I have visited stallman.org the fist time after 911. 
I wonder if he was (or felt) forced to put this graphic on 
his site: "America Means Civil Liberties - Patriotism Is 
Protecting Them" "Other Americans, you may wish to copy 
this icon to your own page, as a way of showing what 
patriotism means to you. "

This doesn't sound as rms. And facing the development in 
the USA and the whole "civilized" world with the SSSCA and 
the Hague Treaty the words on his banner don't make sense.


Regards,
Max Moritz Sievers