----- Original Message ----- From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Arachne List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 12:31 PM Subject: Re: In Response to - (Re: Iraq vs. N Korea)
> On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 08:10:15 +1000, Ronald Bleckendorf wrote: > > > Excellently put, Casper. I am a Jew who grew up in Germany just after the > > last war, went to school there and university. During that time I have not > > heard EVER a racist remark by my peers or anyone else for that matter. Come > > to think of it, I was naive enough to think that racism is something that > > happened in the past. Until I went on a holiday to the USA. It was in a > > small town in Louisiana where a woman I talked to in a diner spat in my face > > when she heard I was Jewish and had the audacity to live in Germany! I was > > scum as far as she was concerned. > > If this woman spat in your face you should have gone down to the local > police station and sworn out a warrant for her arrest and charging her > with assault. I tried, but was denied that privilege because a) I wasn't American and b) I was a German, who had the audacity to be Jewish as well. > If there were any witnesses to the incident she would have > been convicted if the witnessses tell the truth. If the witnesses lie > and say she didn't do it, then she might get away with it. The law can > get her if she dares do the same thing again. The law enforcement > authorities can set her up by orchestrating a similar incident in which > they would have a man playing the part of the foreign Jew and where the > suspected woman would be secretly under surveillance by the authorities. > As long as the victims of this kind of behavior allow the perpetrators to > get away with it the incidents will continue. It wasn't the victim wanting to let her get away with it, but the authorities. > Unfortunately racism is > still a force to be reckoned with in a few small areas of the USA, > especially in areas where there is a lot of Ku Klux Klan activity and in > areas that are being stirred up by Aryan Nations and New World Order > groups and other racist organizations. It is legal in the USA to hold > racist opinions. It is illegal to assault and to threaten people. > > > What I would like to see are UN weapons inspectors to go into the US and > > make sure THEY don't have any "weapons of mass destruction" lying around > > anywhere. > > The US does have weapons of mass destruction such as nuclear bombs and > warheads. The US admits to it. Several other countries have nukes and > they admit to it. If Saddam has nukes he should be disarmed because he > is a known madman. Do you have proof that he is? If not, than this is merely your opinion. Sure, he is at the very bottom of my list of favourite people. But so far, we have no tangible proof that he is either a madman, or has certain weapons stashed away. While he may well have them, I feel he is clever enough NOT to use them. > I don't think we need to worry so much about the > other nations that have them, but for evil regimes like the one in Iraq > we have quite a problem with that. Well, I feel like most people in the western world (including the US). The regime is only evil because some right-wing madmen say it is. > > > Then, if they find any, maybe the rest of the world should just > > attack America for having them. Iraq at the present time is NO threat to > > America in any way. Even if they have the necessary warheads, they have no > > means of getting them all the way to America. > > Yes they do. A nuke may be packed into a briefcase and somebody might > try to smuggle it onto our shores or across our borders. Also chemical > and biological weapons could be dispersed by aerosol spray cans carried > by terrorists. Consider all the tons of cocaine that criminals are > bringing into the country. Since the criminals can so successfully > conspire to import so much cocaine then they probably could succeed also > at importing nukes and large quantities of biological and chemical agents > also. Maybe. But why would Iraq, or any other nation, want to do that? What would be the reason for them to do it? > > > For that reason alone it would > > be ludicrous to attack Iraq. Bush's statement that it has to be done to > > "restore peace in the region" is just as ludicrous, as there is no war in > > the region, and no peace needs to be restored. What is encouraging is that, > > apparently the majority of Americans are against this war. Anyway, I don't > > want to go on and bore everyone with my opinions... > > > Have a good day, > > Sam Heywood > -- > This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser: > http://browser.arachne.cz/ >
