2010/2/19 Scott Loveless <[email protected]>: >> > That pretty much makes your own country born by terrorism. >> > >> Utter nonsense. American revolutionary forces were organized armies that >> took direct action against British troops. Undoubtedly, both sides acted >> against civilian populations to some extent, but the American Revolution was >> as much a war as any other of the time. > > I assumed he was blithering about the Indian Wars. As if those of > here today had any say in it.
Well let's just say I still get both congratulated on Hitler's actions in some place and blamed for them in others or stereotyped I have to be a Nazi. And I-94W Nonimmigrant Visa Waiver Arrival/Departure Form asks on the back C.: “Have you ever been ore are you now involved in espionage or sabotage; or in terrorist activities; or genocide; or between 1933 and 1945 were involved, in any way, in persecutions associated with Nazi Germany or its allies? - Yes/No" and just on general principle I left the answer open and told the immigration officer I hadn't even been born then and saw no appropriate answer to that question and thus would prefer to leave it open or cross it out altogether. Boy was there wind blowing in my face. In fact he said, if I didn't look like such a nice kid otherwise, he'd send me right back. IIRC this was also at a time when I had to sign that I was not a terrorist (which still has me wondering if terrorists who signed this were treated any differently in court than those who didn't as well as whether or not a single terrorist ever said "oops, I'm not supposed to go there" and got on the next plane home after apologizing profusely to immigration) aaw weeell =) I kinda fail to see the notion born in conjunction with a nation - imo a nation is a randomly outlined landmass with more or less homogenous ethnicity and more or less of a government - and a nation can be considered terrorist based on its foreign policy or actions of executive and armed forces towards its own citizens and its governments way of dealing with human right so the US continues to remain in my perception a terrorist nation whereas Iraq no longer does so except in where US installed government institutions continue to pursue the 2nd line agenda of plundering the country to make the war at least a financial non-failure. even my country perpetrates terrorist actions in some instances so don't take this as picking on the US - what I am trying to say is the line is thin, the keepers are weak and the temptation is huge... cheers ecke -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
