j2 i'm not attacking i'm questioning through statment, at most i am seeking to provoke.
attack is a very different posture
the discussions on this board are some of the most enlightened and insightful comments i have seen from US citizens in relation to US foreign policy. - and i have no desire to deride or inhibit that.
what would i do?
i would and i do protest loudly and often as best i can.
that is about all one can do from the outside right now.
for a start i know that an aweful lot of people in the 'greatest democracy on earth' don't vote.
And they profess that, that is part of why the system is best or because they don't think their vote will differ the result.
this at least in part may explain how george jnr scammed in with the florida fiasco and daddies judges, and still he is 'the hero of the democratic world' [oops i'm not meaning to disparage his republican credentials - he does hold the record for lawful mass murder in texas (119 people if my memory serves)] from outside it seemed that there was little questioning of his mandate.
why does my ethnicity bear relevance here? we obviously have much in common as we are typing educated english [sans punctuation - oo a little bit of french there sorry] on active TCP/IP network connections
so i figured that non-requisite self-identification was a bit passe since i could lie and tell you that i'm a Tongan Princess and that you can call me your highness or a Yakuza gun runner with seven fingers
so we are both educated comfortably afluent english speakers the ethnic/gender cloak is in the nature of the medium through which we meet not the method of my rhetoric [though ambiguous i am]
if i get in deep water i swim - balast is a big mistake when swimming, why would i go wading with ballast?
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