On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 09:45:59AM -0500, Travers Buda wrote: > Oh noes! Theo made an anti-American comment! Well we need all the anti- > bull**** comments we can get about stupid policy, stupid wars, stupid > everything! Infact, Theo has got that original American spirit--freedom > from tyrrany, freedom of speech, freedom do do as he pleases. That's > what being American is all about, freedom.
Freedom has different interpretations. A 1944 Soviet Anthem sung in english does tell that the people are free. I think every system will tell its people that the people are free, what another system thinks of this may not be free to them. I do agree with you the freedoms you mentioned are part of the package of what I call ultimately freedom. There is a few more I'd add but this isn't about me. It's about America and it's past since World War 2. Is America against global tyranny that Hitlers Germany strived for, or did they beat them down just to take their place? And history books for us fools do tell us that Hitlers Tyranny did lose the war right? Right? Unamerican or anti-american then can be interpreted as being anti-tyranny, anti-globalpolice, anti-ultracapitalism, anti-globalterror, anti-military. So I think criticism such as this it can be forgiven if you're a decent human being and american. > Wars, wartime policy, domestic surveilance, asinine export laws, (crypto > is a munition? pass the spoon!) skewing the system of checks and > balances, loading the courts with fundamentalists, etc, is as un- > American as you can get. If I live to be 60, it'll be interesting how the world shaped itself since now. regards, -peter -- Here my ticker tape .signature #### My name is Peter Philipp #### lynx -dump "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pufferfish&oldid=20768394"; | sed -n 131,136p #### So long and thanks for all the fish!!!
