>Funny, but here in Europe we don't have an army that has bombed
21
countries
>during the last 50 years (without having been attacked once). We also
don't
>have the high rates of murder and prisoners that your peaceful country has.
>Nor do we need metal detectors in our schools to protect the kids from
>each other, or security guards on our campus to prevent the kids from
>massacrating their peers on Hitler's birthday. We also don't have
>militia-men who kill dozens of civilians by blowing up a gov't building.
>Geez, we don't even have racial riots in large cities after some state
>officers have beaten up a citizen for his race.
>
>But I'm sure we'll have all that pretty soon if we follow the lead of your
>peace-loving and tolerant country, Ray.
How beautifully smug! I understand that your bankers made quite a lot of
money from the gold and jewelry that the Nazis took from death-camp victims.
Europe, if you read its history, was a cesspool of wars, repressions and
mass exterminations. And it was Europeans who brought diseases and
enslavement to the Americas, accounting for the destruction of civilizations
and the deaths of perhaps 100 million people. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to
get into this one, but on reading the above self-congratulatory puffery, I
just couldn't help it. But perhaps I misunderstood. Perhaps you intent was
some form of comic irony.
Ed Weick
countries
>during the last 50 years (without having been attacked once). We also
don't
>have the high rates of murder and prisoners that your peaceful country has.
>Nor do we need metal detectors in our schools to protect the kids from
>each other, or security guards on our campus to prevent the kids from
>massacrating their peers on Hitler's birthday. We also don't have
>militia-men who kill dozens of civilians by blowing up a gov't building.
>Geez, we don't even have racial riots in large cities after some state
>officers have beaten up a citizen for his race.
>
>But I'm sure we'll have all that pretty soon if we follow the lead of your
>peace-loving and tolerant country, Ray.
How beautifully smug! I understand that your bankers made quite a lot of
money from the gold and jewelry that the Nazis took from death-camp victims.
Europe, if you read its history, was a cesspool of wars, repressions and
mass exterminations. And it was Europeans who brought diseases and
enslavement to the Americas, accounting for the destruction of civilizations
and the deaths of perhaps 100 million people. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to
get into this one, but on reading the above self-congratulatory puffery, I
just couldn't help it. But perhaps I misunderstood. Perhaps you intent was
some form of comic irony.
Ed Weick
