Spoken like a true "unruly teenager", angellynn26.Originally posted by angellynn26@16 June 2003 - 14:17
This is all really no big surprise. Of course most of the world is going to hate us, and rightly so. We are constantly sticking our noses in things that are none of our business. If a country asks for our help, it's one thing, but to go around acting as if we are the "parents" of this world dealing with unruly teenagers is wrong. Pushing our false democracy - which is actually a fascist gov't - on other countries is no different than the Christian Crusades or any other religious battles in which one religious group fights the world in hopes of converting all inhabitants to it's beliefs. What's the difference? There is none. The U.S. goal has always been to convert the world to democracy, and hence our way of thinking. We never take into account that maybe this isn't what these countries want... and maybe we are successful at being greedy and making money, but we truly suck at keeping any real morality. And as for Muslim countries, most of them are third world countries that the Western world seeks to control. If you are on the receiving end of a bully's fist, you cower in fear... we are the bully, and I believe their reaction is normal and warranted. As some of you have already pointed out, also, America talks big sh*t about freedom of speech and all, but it is a false freedom. We are just as brainwashed by the propaganda machine as those Muslim countries are. Our media tells us what we want to hear or what's interesting... but rarely do you hear anything substantially bad that our country does. If it is bad press for America, we never get to hear about it. And, when it comes to war, we are told only what the gov't releases to the press, it certainly doesn't make it true. To the other Americans out there, if you think the media reports mostly truth or that our gov't is going to be honest about what it is REALLY up to, then wake up from the dream because you've been highly brainwashed by the machine. My point in general, I don't blame those countries. I hate it here too... and I know our gov't is B.S., but it has done such a supreme job of brainwashing us into believing it's the best gov't on Earth that not many are willing to question it's authority. You have to be willing to think outside of the lines, and I don't think America has enough of an imagination to do that... not at this point.
For some real information on the lie that is America,
Look here
Find the book if you have the guts to take a real long, hard look at our lovely gov't... How To Overthrow The Government by Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington, eh? Isn't she the gal who married that homosexual Republican rep Michael Huffington, then became embittered when he "came out"? She's become the new darling of the Libs now that she hates SUVs and she apparently has cornered the market on "truth".
I would characterize her as an extremely high-rent social-climber in the mold of an ersatz Zsa Zsa Gabor-she's got the accent down.
You'll find we don't allow our rabble to be roused so easily.
Do you know what a Fascist government really is?
Not the rhetorical "Fascist" government of your anti-Bush liberalism, but true Fascism?
Forgive me, but before you began posting here, were you riding in the back of a turnip truck? Perhaps not holding on too tightly?
Such phrases should not be thrown around so cheaply, as you will learn if you persist with this sort of screeching, scatter-shot approach you seem to favor.
Don't get offended or huffy now; I promise-it won't help.
Of course, if you would like to try our wading pool.......
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