Hi Mario,
Thanks for your reply to my post. How sad that there is nothing new coming
from your end. All you have said is pure repetition. It is as though you
believe that endless repetition will convince others. Unfortunately, it
simply does not. Not even your country men join in on Goanet to support your
position on a range of issues. However, I have to admire you for your lone
voice and tenacity on behalf of the USA. It can't be easy. Perhaps, better
someone, than no one.
I don't recall any criticism from you about anything whatsoever in the USA.
Can you please remind me what, if anything, e.g. policy/practice that you
have criticised or disagreed with?
Regards,
Cornel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mario Goveia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 5:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Goanet]In America, the crows stick to the garbage
I want Goanetters to know I don't pay Cornel for
bowling that allows me to hit sixers that land outside
the stadium. Now to his various claims and canards:
1. He asks in conclusion whether he is missing
something because he thinks I am uncritical of
America. What he is missing is a mirror that he can
look in. He claims that the role of an intellectual
is to criticize his society, insinuating, falsely as
it turns out, that he is an intellectual and I am not.
However, the archives will show that I criticize the
USA about as often as Cornel criticizes dingy ole
Blighty. He has overlooked this little fact in his
hasty zeal to attack and propagandize.
2. The articles about the Brits being attacked by
crows, the French and Germans, were not written by me.
I was just forwarding those to warn the Brits. So,
if Cornel takes issue with the contents he should
please respond to the respective authors.
3. I'm sure the US generates garbage commensurate with
the fact that it also generates about a quarter of the
world's GDP. However, the crows in the article I
forwarded were apparently ignoring all the garbage
that is strewn all over dingy ole Blighty and were
attacking Brits. May have something to do with the
culture of bathing once in a blue-moon over there.
4. Genocide is what Hitler did to the Jews and others.
Genocide was what happened in Rwanda, and is going on
in Sudan. The early American settlers did no such
thing. They were exploring and conquering a new-found
continent and the killing was a consequence of any
armed resistance by the indigenous peoples, no
different than what happened in other colonial
expansions of that age. Where there was no armed
resistance there was no killing, as proven by the
numerous indigenous Americans who survive, and those
who survive through the descendants of intermarriage
with the settlers.
The claims of smallpox in blankets etc. are all bogus.
Simple common sense, which anti-Americans seem to
eschew when on the attack, should tell Cornel that.
In the days before any smallpox vaccine, such tactics
would have wiped out the perpetrators just as surely
as any intended victim.
5. As I have shown above the hysterical claims of a
blood-soaked land are not borne out by any facts and
is a figment of anti-American propaganda.
6. Cornel's knowledge of Cuba and recent Cuban history
is about as fanciful as his knowledge of American
settlement, and is right out of Castro's propagandized
version. To begin with, it was President Kennedy's
failure to get the Americans involved that resulted in
the Bay of Pigs being a fiasco. The "first-hand
information" about Cuba that Cornel claims to have is
all Castroite propaganda. No one in Cuba is allowed
to see anything the communist government doesn't want
outsiders to see. The real story is the relentless
attempts, at great risk of life, of those trying to
get out of that communist "haven". That is always the
best indicator of what is really going on in a
country.
--- cornel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Mario,
A wealthy country like the USA generates hell of a
lot of garbage. Yet, it
seems strange that the crows there seem to have
nothing to crow about. The
gun culture there may be putting them off--just a
thought!
