--- Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Anyway, thank you for noticing that President Bush >and I are on the same page, though I thought that was >pretty obvious by now. This is America, man. Not >the UK. Obviously you and Tony Blair are not on the >sme age. Thank God. >
This is not the America I know. The America I know is a democracy where people do not exhibit a servile and submissive attitude towards a master, as is displayed in the above statement and the rest of that post. In a democracy people are free to oppose their government, and hold it accountable for its failed policies and its incompetence. In a democracy people are not proud if their elected representative made a boorish autocratic statement such as "you are either with us or with the terrorists". What you are witnessing from the above poster is slobbering sycophancy and flaccid meekness towards a nominally elected temporary authority that is prone to churlish theocratic and autocratic impulses. You are also witnessing a rabid aggressive behavior towards anyone who exercises his/her democratic right to dissent. Cheers, Santosh
