AMEN!!!
>From: "Kevin H"
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>Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 16:13:23 -0400
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>In light of whats going on, I think this is news everyone should hear.
> >>This, from a Canadian newspaper, no less, is worth sharing.
> > >
> > > 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
> > > damned tire
