Real narrow minded aren't you.
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 13:38:54 -0400, you wrote:
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> Firstly, why are you posting that on this list?
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> Secondly, please don't inject narrow-minded propaganda at a time
>like this. People are justifiably upset as it is, and they don't need
>reactionary drivel like this.
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> It would seem that you are less interested in picking a fight with
>those who are "kicking" you around, than pounding your chest. Please
>do this elsewhere.
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> Matt Cahill -> ANOTHER Canadian
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>psn> This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing.
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>psn> America: The Good Neighbor.
>psn> Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a
>psn> remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a
>psn> Canadian television commentator. What follows is the full text of
>psn> his trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional Record:
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>psn> "This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the
>psn> Americans as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated
>psn> people on all the earth.
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>psn> Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted
>psn> out of the debris of war by the
>psn> Americans who poured in billions of dollars and
>psn> forgave other billions in debts. None of these
>psn> countries is today paying even the interest on its
>psn> remaining debts to the United States.
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>psn> When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956,
>psn> it was the Americans who propped it up, and their
>psn> reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was
>psn> there. I saw it.
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>psn> When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the
>psn> United States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59 American
>psn> communities were flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped.
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>psn> The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped
>psn> billions of dollars! into discouraged countries. Now
>psn> newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent,
>psn> warmongering Americans.
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>psn> I'd like to see just one of those countries that
>psn> is gloating over the erosion of the United States
>psn> dollar build its own airplane. Does any other country in the world
>psn> have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or
>psn> the Douglas DC10?
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>psn> If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the
>psn> International lines except Russia fly American Planes?
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>psn> Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or woman
>psn> on the moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios.
>psn> You talk about German technocracy, and you get automobiles.
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>psn> You talk about American technocracy, and you find
>psn> men on the moon -! not once, but several times -
>psn> and safely home again.
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>psn> You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the
>psn> store window for everybody to look at. Even their draft-dodgers are
>psn> not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, and most of
>psn> them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American
>psn> dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here.
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>psn> When the railways of France, Germany and India
>psn> were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt
>psn> them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went
>psn> broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke.
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>psn> I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to the help of
>psn> other people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone
>psn> else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was
>psn> outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.
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>psn> Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one
>psn> Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get kicked around. They
>psn> will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do,
>psn> they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating
>psn> over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of those."
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>psn> Stand proud, America!
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>psn> I Thank Them.
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>psn> PJFSr.
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