Re: How about some Bin Laden ascii pics?

MJP wrote:

> On 15 Sep 2001 04:01:00 GMT, mik...@bluedwarf.spam.net (MJP) wrote:
>
> >On Sat, 15 Sep 2001 03:57:49 +0100, Lemming <l3m...@bumblbee.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>
> >>I live in a country which has suffered for many years at the hands of
> >>a terrorist group who are funded mostly by Americans.  Tell me, should
> >>we nuke the United States?
> >>
> >>--
> >>Lemming
> >>
> >
> > Do tell, how has The United Kingdom suffered at the hands of the USA?
> >--
>
> Ok, while I wait for your reply (And I do appologise for these rather
> off-topic-nonASCII posts, but this seems to be a current and rather
> international topic) I will post an opinion of a fellow British Subject
> who does not share your opinion of America, and Americans. I have received
> several copies of this via e-mail so some of you may have already seen it.
>
> begin quoted e-mail:
>
> A TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES
> This, from a Canadian newspaper, 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!

Is it any surprise that they are only posting pro-capitalist letters in the
newspaper?  After all, the newspaper is a corporate entity, funded by corporate ads.
And it has been my finding that if you get 100 letters, at least one of them will be
what you are looking for.

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