Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 18:29:44 -0700
Reply-To: "G. Jetson" <dkcomet@YAHOO.COM>
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From: "G. Jetson" <dkcomet@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: [Syncro] People uniting
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Hi All,
I'm not going to take any sides here. But, ironically
I got an email from a Canadian friend that had an
article published in the paper up there. I think it's
what the initial post that started this string was
hinting at. While the points may be accurate, it's not
for us to bitch about internationally.
Maybe you will agree with the article, maybe not. It
doesn't matter. Let's all just move on & hope that
someday the rest of the world will get along as well
as the list does. This is a great community we have
developed here. We all help each other & our lives as
VW owners are greatly improved by everyones
contributions.
Best wishes,
David K
Seattle
>A great commentary from our friends up north.
>
> >
> > TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES
> >
> > 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 5,000 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 damned 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."
> Chris Gronski wrote:
I just got back from giving blood that will no doubt,
as was my
intention, go
> to New York or Washington to help survivors. The USA
has my
unreserved
> condolences for this despicable act of violence.
Mike you have my
condolences
> for your obvious ignorance.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris Gronski
> Toronto, Canada - Where a couple dozen of your
planes landed
>
> On Tue, 11 September 2001, adovehunter2@yahoo.com
wrote:
>
>>
>> Im new to the list for about 3 weeks now. Ive got
to say that Im
>> pleased that some from other countries are thinking
of us for a
>> change. Its always us that sends aid all over the
world in disasters
>> and very few others do,but we are always malinged
as the devil.Lets
>> see if anyone steps up to the plate and helps us in
our time of need
>> or if we will have to do it ourselves as
always...Mike in Fresno
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