From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Mar 21 2003 - 18:02:54 MST
--- ABlainey@aol.com wrote:
> I really don't agree with these actions against the french, or
> weasels as some U. S papers are allegedly calling them. I think it
> is borderline racist
For the record, I am 1/12th French ancestry. So call me a self-hating
miscegenated Frenchman, quadruply removed, if you want to. I certainly
don't generally call attention to it. Calling a boycott by one
predominantly white nation against another predominantly white nation
"racist" is rather seriously grasping at straws.
> and goes against freedom of speech and democracy. Punishing a nation
> for the political views of its leaders, while damaging your own
> economy is pretty dumb
If a nation is democratic, and lives by a majoritarian tyranny system
of government (as France is), it's leaders are acting EXACTLY as their
constituents want them to.
On a similar note, I hear lots of europeans and others claim they love
Americans but hate our government's policy. Turns out that 71%
currently support Bush's policy and 78% think the UN is a failure. Our
government's policy is our own. We own it. Get it?
In contrast, it is easy to hold such a dichotimous view with regards to
Iraq and its people.
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Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
- Gen. John Stark
"Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
"Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid
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