Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Buzz, I've been reading, silly me , all the mails on such threads on a half a dozen lists, up to now the worst, as you put it, "Yankee Bashers", seem to have been US citizens. Also I've not seen that anyone is particularly lauding the praises of his own country at the expense of the USA. Neither are they lashing back when a US citizen attacks the politics/system of their own countries. Except that some of our ex-Warsaw Pact members were rightly and understandably up in arms about other countries and their involvement in the fall of the red empire (please note NOT just the USA!!) The state of the states in Europe, I can speak from experience as a Brit in Germany, is going from bad to worse. Mass unemployment, inflation, cuts in public spending are all hitting hard, right-wing thinking is on the upswing, a vague anti-semitism too and intolerance is reaching the levels of xenophobia. Those of us who read the newspapers and listen or watch the current affairs and news programs,both American and European, and also read the posts on the web concerning personally experienced restrictions of public freedom in the US are very much aware of the current political status of the USA and its relationship to the rest of the world. Should we not be allowed to make our own judgements? express our own opinions even when these are uncomfortable for the USA? Isn't exactly this one of the cornerstones of your own constitution? Douglas buzz.hausner@verizon.net schrieb: >I'm sorry, but I have finally had it with all of you, the Yankee Bashing on >this list is growing intolerable. May I suggest that all of our Canadian, >British, French, German, Italian, Spanish, et alii siblings spend a little >effort on addressing the imperfections of their own nations. I know that >you each believe that you live in a utopian Cloud Cuckoo Land, but you >don't. Please, just SHUT UP when they feel the urge to take a shot at the >United States. > >Buzz Hausner > > > >>From: "Robert Beaudoin" <bussbearm@aei.ca> >>Date: 2004/10/15 Fri AM 11:11:50 EDT >>To: <lug@leica-users.org> >>Subject: [Leica] Socialism? >> >> >> >> >>------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Leica Users Group. >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> -- Ihre bevorzugten Shops, hilfreiche Einkaufs-Hilfen und gro?artige Geschenk Ideen. Erleben Sie das Vergn?gen online einzukaufen mit Shop@Netscape! http://shopping.netscape.de/shopping/