Terry Yager
Veteran Member
Is it delusional to be scared of FEMA, or is it normal because FEMA really is scary? (Sorry, haven't had my meds for awhile).
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Terry Yager said:Achtung! Sneaky lil' devils. I hate when they do that.
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Micom 2000 said:Terry Yager said:Achtung! Sneaky lil' devils. I hate when they do that.
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It's interesting that you see it only as an abridgement of democratic principals. A sneaky way that the fundamentalist right introduced a measure which goes against all the principals on which your country was founded. A slick move which benefitted a minority of control freaks.
But then again there are times when one has to pull their neck in, lest it be cut off, and I can understand that especially in this era of the HSA.
One of the advantages of being elderly is that one can die suddenly whether by the ravages of natural deteriorization or by the state power.
No matter the agent, one can be adventuresome since the outcome is inevitable. Sooner or later, same end.
At one time the US Declaration of Independance was viewed by many peoples in the world as a beacon of light. Later on it was tarnished by the rapacious pirates of capitalism such as Carnegie, Rockefeller, and others such as Henry Ford who was an admirer of Hitler and funded a Nazi paper, the partnership of the Bush patriarch with German industialists in the slave-labor camps of Nazi Germany, or even the basis of the Kennedy fortune founded on sales of scrap metal to Germany which rained down on Europe as bombs. But generally thru-out it's history the US populace has made the adjustments necessary to counter the power of the oligarchy.
True, US foreign policy resulted in the Monroe doctrine, support for Latin American dictators as long as they didn't hinder corporate profits, from
US Fruit or Anaconda Copper, which policies continue today, the School of the Americas which trained the dictators death sqads, and the various CIA ventures to overthrow any democratic regime which might hinder US colonial profit, but one always had the belief that the US citizenry would right these wrongs if only they knew the truth.
However as control of mass media in the US has been concentrated in a few large corporations, and fundamental christianity with it's appocolypse-centred "Rapture" has captured the GOP, the US "Empire" with its mighty military machine and vast economic power has become anathema to most of the worlds people. It's descent to fascism is quite visable. And it seems like the US populace supports these aberrations.
I live in Canada,
my parents were both born in the US and I likely have a claim to dual-citizenship. I lived in Boston for 2 years and married a black woman from the Bronx who gave me 4 sons and now 9 grandchildrern, all who live in Canada. I participated in the civil rights struggle as well as the protests against the War in Viet-Nam both of which involved considerable physical danger including my wife and I being forced over a 15' wall in New York by club-weilding police. I have many friends and relatives in the US and have always viewed us as having a common bond. Unfortunately it becomes more difficult to not view most americans in the same light I've viewed the dysfunctionals of the KKK.
It would be a luxury if I was only able to say "let them go to hell in a basket" but unfortunately, unlike Europe, our media is closely tied to this monster south of us, and the same media conglomerates that brainwash most americans slop over in the form of FOX, CNN, and the Movies. Despite this assault, Canadians retain a heathy skeptism to present-day US values,(a huge majority oppose the US invasion of Iraq) but just like Austria succumbed to German fascist ideology it's edgy and I can only hope that the US regains it's sanity before Canada loses it's own.
I don't think most americans fully realise, and even dismiss, the depth of foreign feeling against the policies of the Bush regime and the apprehension of the changes in US society.
It should be taken seriously, because the US is becoming a pariah and it will take many years to overcome this perception. Like many canadians, I now refuse to visit the US, tho I grew up as a teenager, heading down to a bar in North Dakota on Saturday nights to drink and eat the great hamburgers at Larry's Bar in Minot and party with people like ourselves.
Things change.
Micom2K