No..thank you...all of you out there who offer your sympathy and support. At the risk of sounding ethocentric, we are the victims here. I think its time to give up the political nit pickings and rememeber those who are dead. On Wednesday 12 September 2001 17:01, s wrote: > Thank you for this. One get a little weary constantly hearing how they are > the bad guys. > -s > > On Wednesday 12 September 2001 03:37 pm, jennifer wrote: > > >This, from a Canadian newspaper, no less, is worth > > > > sharing. > > > > >America: The Good Neighbor. > > > > > > > > >Widespread but only partial news coverage was given > > >recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from > > >Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television > > >commentator. What follows is the full text of his > > >trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional > > >Record: > > > > > > > > >"This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the > > >Americans as the most generous and possibly the least > > > > > >appreciated people on all the earth. > > > > > > > > >Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and > > >Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the > > >Americans who poured in billions of dollars and > > >forgave other billions in debts. None of these > > >countries is today paying even the interest on its > > >remaining debts to the United States. > > > > > > > > >When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it > > >was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward > > > > > >was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of > > >Paris. I was there. I saw it. > > > > > > > > >When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United > > > > > >States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59 > > >American communities were flattened by tornadoes. > > >Nobody helped. > > > > > > > > >The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped > > >billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now > > >newspapers in those countries are writing about the > > >decadent, warmongering Americans. > > > > > > > > >I'd like to see just one of those countries that is > > >gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar > > > > > >build its own airplane. Does any other country in the > > > > > >world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the > > > > > >Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10? If so, why > > >don't they fly them? Why do all the International > > >lines except Russia fly American Planes? > > > > > > > > >Why does no other land on earth even consider putting > > > > > >a man or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese > > >technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about > > > > German > > > > >technocracy, and you get automobiles. You talk about > > >American technocracy, and you find men on the moon - > > >not once, but several times and safely home again. > > > > > > > > >You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs > > > > > >right in the store window for everybody to look at. > > >Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded. > > > > > >They are here on our streets, and most of them, > > > > unless > > > > >they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American > > > > > >dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here. > > > > > > > > >When the railways of France, Germany and India were > > >breaking down through age, it was the Americans who > > >rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the > > >New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an > > >old caboose. Both are still broke. > > > > > > > > >I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to > > > > > >the help of other people in trouble. Can you name me > > >even one time when someone else raced to the > > > > Americans > > > > >in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even > > > > > >during the San Francisco earthquake. > > > > > > > > >Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one > > >Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get > > >kicked around. They will come out of this thing with > > >their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled > > >to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating > > >over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one > > > > > >of those." ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- -- Jennifer #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k #include <wisdom.h> void ignorance (it offers no value)
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