From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Mon Feb 17 2003 - 06:35:37 MST
Kai reported:
<<Regarding "democracy": I just found an article in the german online
magazine Telepolis[1] about an anti-war demonstration in New York on
Saturday. They say the police built barricades, hindered demonstrants to
reach the place of the event, beat up people and used almost every
non-democratic way to keep this demonstration small. Nevertheless, First
to Fifth Avenue were crowded with people. Seems that slowly, slowly, the
US authorities really drift from "freedom and democracy" towards banana
republic.
Kai
[1] http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/mein/14197/1.html >>
Rather than defend the US against your allegations, or the allegations of the
article you have cited, let us try a different tack. There are T-shirts sold
in Deutschland, asking; "What Will We Do About the US?." Let us assume that
the accusations of barbarism or whatever, are factual. What will the world do
about it?
This is a good question given the fact that so many wish, and wished, to do
nothing against the Islamic Militants, North Korea, the Balkans massacres,
the Rwanda massacres, Mao's China, Pol Pots Kampuchea, Idi Amin,the old
Soviets, the Japanese Imperialists, the National Socialists, Mussolini's
smashing of the Ethiopians, etc., ad naseum.
So basically, I am inquiring, how are we US fascist exploiters to be
punished, to be corrected, so we can be forced to conform to the "proper" way
of thinking? The Russians had an expression called Kto Kogo, which means
"who, whom?" It asks the question; who can do what, to whom? Perhaps a
disinvestment in US companies, the closing of embassy's, a military assault?
I am pretty confident that protests and rallies, however persistent, and
televised will not suffice to change American policy against our poor
victims, so...?
Yours in Cthulu,
Mitch
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