X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,aef7eaf526288f16 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-30 10:52:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!nntpserver.com!hub1.nntpserver.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.mb.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3BB75E91.3C9241A5@textfiles.com> From: BMC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: How about some Bin Laden ascii pics? References: <3163qt8f5q4j4c2o6omlss3fn00f7pviai@4ax.com> <3ba2b44e.902847@news.concentric.net> <3ba2d22e.8552683@news.concentric.net> <3ba2da32.10604332@news.concentric.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 103 Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 17:52:01 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.66.251.222 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.mb.home.com 1001872321 24.66.251.222 (Sun, 30 Sep 2001 10:52:01 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 10:52:01 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:8211 MJP wrote: > On 15 Sep 2001 04:01:00 GMT, mikechat.remove@bluedwarf.spam.net (MJP) wrote: > > >On Sat, 15 Sep 2001 03:57:49 +0100, Lemming 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.