On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 04:54, Hesham Khonji wrote: > The greatest monster I know is the American government.
Sorry to say, but I have to agree. The American public knows literally nothing about what the US Government does in REALITY - they only know what they're told. What would Americans think if they knew the reality to the war their being led into - or if they really knew the reasons for the Afghanistan crisis? Firstly - they're in disbelief because they've been conditioned by the media and by the government. Being an American that emigrated to another country, and being an American that has never trusted the US Government (my father worked for the US government since the early 50's), I know how they utilise bureaucratic channels to hide the truth of matters to the public - supposedly for the "protection of the public". If the American public understood that large corporate interests are what sparked the flame in the 80's, and has pushed them to the point where they are at now - would they blindly run to battle? If they knew that they were giving their lives for the security of profits for large companies, would they give their lives? If they knew that Enron was a major cause of the Afghanistan crisis along with an oil pipeline to the ocean, would they have willingly went in? Sorry - I've been quiet about all of this so far, but we all have different perceptions of the whole picture, and I have to state that I do not and will not stand by the US Government's decisions or actions - I believe in the People of the US - but not the government. The US Government stopped being "for the people and by the people" - only occasionally does the US Government give in to either public pressure or "peer" pressure - otherwise, their agenda is clearly aimed at corporate alignment and market dominance. -- Thu Jan 9 06:20:00 EST 2003 6:20am up 7:10, 4 users, load average: 0.76, 0.54, 0.45 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | ------------------------------------------------------------------ * linux user:267497 * RH 7.3+ * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting ------------------------------------------------------------------ ... or were you driving the PONTIAC that HONKED at me in MIAMI last Tuesday?
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