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From: Bill Conner <bconner_at_verio.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 01:23:40 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.0038CC53.20010913011033@fatcity.com>

!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !!This article is awesome!!!!

>Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 12:43:05 -0600
>From: "Christopher Conner" <chris.conner_at_navidec.com>
>Organization: Navidec
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>To: Samuel Schetter <samuel.schetter_at_lfsonline.com>,
> david himelein <aulfgar_at_techemail.com>, bconner_at_verio.net,
> Shawn Conner <shawn.conner_at_abacus-direct.com>,
> Pat Dvorak <pdvorak_at_navidec.com>
>Subject: Interesting article from a canadian newspaper
>
>
> This is from a Canadian newspaper and 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
> broadcast.
> "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 tired of hearing them get kicked around.
>They will come out of this thing with their flag
>high.
> And when they do, they are entitled to thumb
>their nose at the lands that are gloating over
>their present
> troubles. I hope Canada is not one of those."

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