[Leica] Cloud Cuckoo Land & Yankee Bashing

[buzz.hausner at verizon.net (buzz.hausner@verizon.net)]

By all means, Douglas, make your own judgements.  All I am requesting is 
that after making your own judgements that you and everybody else on the 
list JUST SHUT UP instead of making comments on national character.

Buzz Hausner

> 
> From: "Douglas M. Sharp" <DouglasMSharp@netscape.net>
> Date: 2004/10/15 Fri PM 12:03:26 EDT
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Cloud Cuckoo Land & Yankee Bashing
> 
> 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