On Feb 19, 2010, at 12:17 PM, eckinator wrote: > 2010/2/19 Scott Loveless <sdlovel...@gmail.com>: >>>> That pretty much makes your own country born by terrorism. >>>> >>> Utter nonsense. American revolutionary forces were organized armies that >>> took direct action against British troops. Undoubtedly, both sides acted >>> against civilian populations to some extent, but the American Revolution was >>> as much a war as any other of the time. >> >> I assumed he was blithering about the Indian Wars. As if those of >> here today had any say in it. > > Well let's just say I still get both congratulated on Hitler's actions > in some place and blamed for them in others or stereotyped I have to > be a Nazi. > > And I-94W Nonimmigrant Visa Waiver Arrival/Departure Form asks on the > back C.: “Have you ever been ore are you now involved in espionage or > sabotage; or in terrorist activities; or genocide; or between 1933 and > 1945 were involved, in any way, in persecutions associated with Nazi > Germany or its allies? - Yes/No" and just on general principle I left > the answer open and told the immigration officer I hadn't even been > born then and saw no appropriate answer to that question and thus > would prefer to leave it open or cross it out altogether. Boy was > there wind blowing in my face. In fact he said, if I didn't look like > such a nice kid otherwise, he'd send me right back. IIRC this was also > at a time when I had to sign that I was not a terrorist (which still > has me wondering if terrorists who signed this were treated any > differently in court than those who didn't as well as whether or not a > single terrorist ever said "oops, I'm not supposed to go there" and > got on the next plane home after apologizing profusely to immigration) > aaw weeell =) > > I kinda fail to see the notion born in conjunction with a nation - imo > a nation is a randomly outlined landmass with more or less homogenous > ethnicity and more or less of a government - and a nation can be > considered terrorist based on its foreign policy or actions of > executive and armed forces towards its own citizens and its > governments way of dealing with human right so the US continues to > remain in my perception a terrorist nation
I think they need to change your meds. You've become a genuine nutcase. Paul > whereas Iraq no longer does > so except in where US installed government institutions continue to > pursue the 2nd line agenda of plundering the country to make the war > at least a financial non-failure. even my country perpetrates > terrorist actions in some instances so don't take this as picking on > the US - what I am trying to say is the line is thin, the keepers are > weak and the temptation is huge... > > cheers > ecke > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
