Re: [Leica] Sinclair article (was For You George)

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen2001@yahoo.ca>]

Take a deep breath, Mark - No one in their right mind
would question Canada's support of the U.S. :-)

B. D.
- --- Mark Langer <mlanger@ccs.carleton.ca> wrote:
> Jim,
> 
> You should know that this article, now being widely
> reprinted, is almost
> 30 years old, and was written in 1973 by a
> well-known crank and eccentric who
> has been dead for some years. It hardly applies to
> the situation today.  I
> won't go through the long list of aid that the U.S.
> had received from other
> countries in the recent past (like American victims
> in Somalia being
> treated in German hospitals, the Canadian and Swiss
> help to the U.S.
> Embassy officials in Iran, the Israeli medical and
> body recovery teams at
> the African embassy bombings, etc, etc) but almost
> every country in the
> world has offered aid to the U.S. in this most
> recent catastrophe.  Even
> Castro has offered to send a field hospital.  Why
> this article is being
> widely reprinted in U.S. papers now is something
> completely beyond my
> understanding.
> 
> This 30 year old article ends by voicing the hope
> that Canada is not among the
> "ingrate" nations.  We've just taken in, fed and
> housed 37,000 passengers,
> mostly American, from flights headed to the U.S. 
> Canadian jets
> intercepted and forced down two passenger jets en
> route to the
> U.S. suspected of being highjacked.  75,000
> Canadians donated blood for the
> victims of the bombing.  Donations are pouring in to
> the U.S.from Canada,
> and hospital beds were vacated, operations
> postponed, etc. to make room for
> possible American victims.  Thousands of people were
> weeping outside the
> U.S. Embassy in Washington, and the sidewalks around
> it are impassible
> because of the flowers left by grieving Canadians. 
> Our Prime Minister went on
> the air to say that the attack in N.Y. and
> Washington is considered by the
> Govt. of Canada to be an attack on Canada itself,
> and we will react
> accordingly.  He has been in communication with
> Bush, and formal offers
> of aid have been made.  The RCMP is combing the
> Atlantic Provinces
> following up leads that two suspects may have
> entered the U.S. from
> there.  And, as far as loss of Canadian life, it is
> estimated that 60 to
> 100 Canadians died in the World Trade Center
> disaster.  So please don't
> continue to post your whinings about how the world
> in general, and Canada
> in particular, isn't coming to the aid of the U.S. 
> We may not expect your
> thanks, but we sure as hell don't expect this kind
> of contemptuous
> reprinting of the 30 year-old ravings of some nut as
> a description of
> today's situation.
> 
> Mark  
> 
> > Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 20:44:14 -0400
> > From: Jim Hemenway <jim@hemenway.com>
> > Subject: [Leica] For you George
> > Message-ID: <3BA0015E.8502C943@hemenway.com>
> > References:
> <200109122307.TAA03962@newman.concentric.net>
> > 
> > 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."
> > 
> > Stand proud, America!
> > 
> 
> 
> Mark Langer
> 
> Email address: mlanger@ccs.carleton.ca
> 
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