The American spirit can not be damaged by such acts of terror. Long live the U.S.A.!
73 de N3NTJ
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On Fri, 14 September 2001, Jack wrote:
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> To: ragnar otterstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]><br>
> Subject: Re: [DXR] A DXer's view<br><br>
> THIS PUT ME OVER THE EDGE <br>
> MAY I SUBMIT THE ENCLOSED ARTICLE WRITTEN BY A CANADIAN TV COMMENTATOR
> AND SUGGEST TO THE MODERATOR THIS THREAD CEASE AND AT ONCE. HAM
> RADIO IS SUPPOSED TO BE FREE FROM POLITICS AND RELIGION. THIS AREA
> TAKES US INTO BOTH AREAS. <br><br>
> A sober approach would be to analyse what USA has done wrong in order to
> create enough hatred so some people<br>
> are willing to make the ultimate sacrifice. <font color="#FF0000">WRONG
> !! ! HOW DARE YOU!! THINK OF THE SACRFICE OF OVER 15,000 MEN WHO
> DIED ON THE BEACHES OF NORMANDY TO FREE EUROPE THESE WERE FIGHTING
> MEN NOT INNOCENTS <br>
> </font>With an ignorant president you need some wise and knowledgable
> people in the government, who can review your foreign<br>
> policy and come up with some much needed changes.The lack of
> understanding the world outside USA and to<br>
> some extent Western-Europe has led USA to make some serious mistakes. Not
> knowing who committed the<br>
> horrible terror attack, for the sake of argument let me just make an
> example: It does not take a rocket<br>
> scientist to understand that the lack of support to the Palestinians
> struggle for freedom and<br>
> selfdetermination is not winning friends in the Arab world while at the
> same time the oppressers are<br>
> receiving several billion in "aid" every year .<br>
> You may not believe it, but in many places around in the world, some of
> us have had to stress that we are<br>
> not Americans in order to be treated politely ! 1<br>
> With respect and sorrow <font color="#FF0000">!!!!!!!!<br>
> </font>73 Rag LA5HE<br>
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> <font size=2>This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing.</font>
> <br>
> <font size=2>America: The Good Neighbor.</font> <br>
> <font size=2>Widespread but only partial news coverage was given</font> <font
>size=2>recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from</font> <font
>size=2> Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television</font> <font
>size=2>commentator. What follows is the full text of his</font> <font
>size=2>trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional Record:</font> <br>
> <font size=2> <br>
> "This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the</font> <font
>size=2>Americans as the most generous and possibly the least</font> <font
>size=2> appreciated people on all the earth.</font> <br>
> <font size=2> <br>
> Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and</font> <font size=2>Italy were
>lifted out of the debris of war by the</font> <font size=2>Americans who poured in
>billions of dollars and</font> <font size=2>forgave other billions in debts. None of
>these</font> <font size=2>countries is today paying even the interest on its</font>
><font size=2>remaining debts to the United States.</font> <br>
> <font size=2> <br>
> When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956,</font> <font size=2>it was the
>Americans who propped it up, and their</font> <font size=2>reward was to be insulted
>and swindled on the streets</font> <font size=2>of Paris. I was there. I saw
>it.</font> <br>
> <font size=2> <br>
> When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the</font> <font size=2>United States
>that hurries in to help. This spring, 59</font> <font size=2>American communities
>were flattened by tornadoes.</font> <font size=2>Nobody helped.</font> <br>
> <font size=2> <br>
> The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped</font> <font size=2>billions of
>dollars! into discouraged countries. Now</font> <font size=2>newspapers in those
>countries are writing about the</font> <font size=2>decadent, warmongering
>Americans.</font> <br>
> <font size=2> <br>
> I'd like to see just one of those countries that</font> <font size=2>is gloating
>over the erosion of the United States</font> <font size=2>dollar build its own
>airplane. Does any other country</font> <font size=2>in the world have a plane
>to equal the Boeing Jumbo</font> <font size=2>Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the
>Douglas DC10?</font> <font size=2>If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all
>the</font> <font size=2>International lines except Russia fly American Planes?</font>
><br>
> <font size=2> <br>
> Why does no other land on earth even consider putting</font> <font size=2>a man or
>woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese</font> <font size=2>technocracy, and you
>get radios. You talk about German</font> <font size=2>technocracy, and you get
>automobiles.</font> <br>
> <font size=2> <br>
> You talk about American technocracy, and you find</font> <font size=2>men on the
>moon -! not once, but several times -</font> <font size=2>and safely home
>again.</font> <br>
> <font size=2> <br>
> You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs</font> <font size=2>right in
>the store window for everybody to look at.</font> <font size=2>Even their
>draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded.</font> <font size=2>They are here on our
>streets, and most of them, unless</font> <font size=2>they are breaking Canadian
>laws, are getting American</font> <font size=2>dollars from ma and pa at home to
>spend here.</font> <br>
> <font size=2> <br>
> When the railways of France, Germany and India</font> <font size=2>were breaking
>down through age, it was the Americans</font> <font size=2>who rebuilt them. When the
>Pennsylvania Railroad and</font> <font size=2>the New York Central went broke, nobody
>loaned them an</font> <font size=2>old caboose. Both are still broke.</font> <br>
> <font size=2> <br>
> I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced</font> <font size=2>to the help
>of other people in trouble. Can you name</font> <font size=2>me even one time when
>someone else raced to the</font> <font size=2>Americans in trouble? I don't think
>there was outside</font> <font size=2>help even during the San Francisco
>earthquake.</font> <br>
> <font size=2> <br>
> Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one</font> <font size=2>Canadian who is
>damned tired of hearing them get</font> <font size=2>kicked around. They will come
>out of this thing with</font> <font size=2>their flag high. And when they do, they
>are entitled</font> <font size=2>to thumb their nose at the lands that are
>gloating</font> <font size=2>over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one
>of</font> <font size=2>those."</font> <br>
> <font size=2> <br>
> Stand proud, America!</font> <br><br>
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