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General Chat / Re: A day of terror...
« on: September 12, 2001, 05:46:07 PM »
I think this is very important as well its from a CANADIAN, even I couldn' of said it better myself, I got this in an email from my friend.
> America: The Good Neighbor
>
> Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently
> to A remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon
> Sinclair, a Canadian television commentator. What follows is the full text
> of his trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional Record:
>
> "This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans
> as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all
> the earth.
>
> Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were
> lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in
> billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of these
> countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the
> United States.
>
> When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who
> propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the
> streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.
>
> When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United States that hurries
> in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by
> tornadoes. Nobody helped.
>
> The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars into
> discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those countries are writing about
> the decadent, warmongering Americans. I'd like to see just one of those
> countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar
> build its own airplane.Does any other country in the world have a plane to
> equal the Boeing
> Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10? If so, why don't
> they fly them? Why do all the International lines except Russia fly
> American Planes?
>
> Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or woman on
> the moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You
> talk about German technocracy, and you get automobiles. You talk about
> American technocracy, and you find men on the moon - not once, but several
> times - and safely home again. You talk about scandals, and the Americans
> put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at. Even their
> draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets,
> and most of them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting
> American dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here.
>
> When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking Down through
> age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad
> and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose.
> Both are still broke. I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced
> to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when
> someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was
> outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.
>
> Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is ****ed
> tired of hearing them get kicked around. They will come out of this thing
> with their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their
> nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope
> Canada is not one of those."
"I'll never look back, I''ve got no regrets. 'Cause time doesn''t wait for me...I choose to go my own way." - Sonic the Hedgehog
> America: The Good Neighbor
>
> Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently
> to A remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon
> Sinclair, a Canadian television commentator. What follows is the full text
> of his trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional Record:
>
> "This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans
> as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all
> the earth.
>
> Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were
> lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in
> billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of these
> countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the
> United States.
>
> When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who
> propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the
> streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.
>
> When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United States that hurries
> in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by
> tornadoes. Nobody helped.
>
> The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars into
> discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those countries are writing about
> the decadent, warmongering Americans. I'd like to see just one of those
> countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar
> build its own airplane.Does any other country in the world have a plane to
> equal the Boeing
> Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10? If so, why don't
> they fly them? Why do all the International lines except Russia fly
> American Planes?
>
> Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or woman on
> the moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You
> talk about German technocracy, and you get automobiles. You talk about
> American technocracy, and you find men on the moon - not once, but several
> times - and safely home again. You talk about scandals, and the Americans
> put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at. Even their
> draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets,
> and most of them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting
> American dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here.
>
> When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking Down through
> age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad
> and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose.
> Both are still broke. I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced
> to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when
> someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was
> outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.
>
> Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is ****ed
> tired of hearing them get kicked around. They will come out of this thing
> with their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their
> nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope
> Canada is not one of those."
"I'll never look back, I''ve got no regrets. 'Cause time doesn''t wait for me...I choose to go my own way." - Sonic the Hedgehog
