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Re: A word to the international community... (Re: Vote against/for...)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 7 Nov 2002 12:43:08 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes:
> 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.
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> Your demagoguery and paranoia aside, let's take a wait-and-see attitude rather
> than engage in pointless inflammatory rhetoeric.
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> I am just so tired of Americans apologizing for the US--
There is an easy way to sort that.
> 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?
Why does anyone ever apologize for anything?
> Who went and made Europe our
> political and moral judge?
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
should jail anyone who speaks against him/the USA? Do you think that would
solve the problem?
Scott A
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> -John
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