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Subject:	Re: A word to the international community... (Re: Vote against/for...)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Wed, 6 Nov 2002 22:41:36 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes: > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes: > > > As far as how we "do things in our country"-- we are the model, the freest > > country on earth. The plank, my friend, is in world's eye, not ours. > > Although John may speak for the soon-to-be-installed right-wing > overzealous militaristic hegemonic self-righteous theocracy, his wildly > nationalistic statements should not be construed as anything like mainstream > American thought, but they can be more accurately considered the power-mad > ramblings of a pent-up political party eager to flex its muscle and enforce > its God-as-our-copilot agenda. Your demagoguery and paranoia aside, let's take a wait-and-see attitude rather than engage in pointless inflammatory rhetoeric. I am just so tired of Americans apologizing for the US-- it is mad that I would have anything for which to be sorry to a country such as, say, France. We differ politically from French socialists and Europeans in general. Fine. Why should we apologize to anyone for anything? Who went and made Europe our political and moral judge? -John

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		Re: A word to the international community... (Re: Vote against/for...)
(...) John, John -- wake up! You're talking in your sleep and some of us can still hear you... Increasingly we have more in common with socialism and/or communism than we do with a free democratic republic, or hadn't you noticed? THE 10 PLANKS OF (...) (22 years ago, 6-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: A word to the international community... (Re: Vote against/for...)
(...) There is an easy way to sort that. (...) Why does anyone ever apologize for anything? (...) Is it the judgment you don't like, or the fact that the USA is being judged? Perhaps the French should be denied the right to free speech? Perhaps Bush (...) (22 years ago, 7-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		A word to the international community... (Re: Vote against/for...)
(...) Although John may speak for the soon-to-be-installed right-wing overzealous militaristic hegemonic self-righteous theocracy, his wildly nationalistic statements should not be construed as anything like mainstream American thought, but they can (...) (22 years ago, 6-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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