Anti-American? Do I sound anti-american? I am not.
I am, however, anti-stupid people, and frankly, having
been born in the US, raised in the US, lived in the US,
and in all probability soon to die in the US - I'm here
to tell you we are collar-bone deep in stupid people and
it's getting deeper. Kindly do recall that this _is_ the
country that convicted Martha Stewart of lying about
something she wasn't charged with. The one that failed
to convict "The Juice". The same one that elected Bill
Clinton president. Twice. The one that has more lawyers
than it has engineering students - by an order of magnitude.
The country that just a few months ago announced a
new space initiative to expand the international space
station, build a base on the moon, and fly to Mars -
right before it cut Nasa's budget - again. The one
where the Democrats still claim the Republicans "stole"
the Presidential election, even though not even the
rabidly liberal Miami Herald was able to find enough
votes in the ballot box to save Gore's sorry ass when
the court granted them access to the ballots under FOIA.
The country that elected Ronald Reagan to the Presidency
- twice. The one where people can't figure out a butterfly
ballot. The same country that doesn't seem to understand
that a closed-source electronic voting system will go
into service just _after_ the last free election we ever
have. The one that covered up the gov't murder of 85
men, women and children in Waco and then couldn't under-
stand how we managed to create a home-grown terrorist.
The one that showed said terrorist that murder was wrong
by killing him on TV while a bunch of ghouls watched.
The one that built the school system that so alienated
some of its students that it hatched a pair of lunatics
loaded up with guns and bombs who killed 13 people - and
then the next day responded by rounding up every student
in the country who wore a black trench coat and alienated
them even further...and whose most enduring lesson from
the whole affair was to ban people from wearing black
trench coats or carrying pocket knives. A country where
we cannot legally carry pocket knives near schools or on
planes but where we are routinely provided food and goods
so tightly sealed in tough plastic "for our protection"
that no human nails can open them. The country that had
four airliners stolen and flown into major landmarks with
horrific loss of life who then created an entire new federal
bureaucracy whose first action was to ban nail clippers
from airplanes. The one that protects the Constitution
by gutting the civil rights it was founded to protect.
That one. "Leader of the Free World?" "Home of the
Brave?" How brave can we be when we have proven _in_court_
that we are not competent to put cream in our own coffee?
And how did that one get solved? Now McDonald's writes
"careful, coffee may be hot" on their mugs and won't let
us put our own cream in them. Ohhhhh - I feel so much
safer now...

Don't lecture me about anti-Americanism. I came by
mine the honest way, I'm an American _citizen_, and
I damned sick and tired of my whining, miserable,
cowardly fellow Americans. The ones who are so
against the "unnecessary" war - but who really do
support the troops. How patronizing can you get?
The troops may very well be the only ones smart
enough to realize how badly they _are_ being
patronized.

And guess what? Bad as my opinion is of my fellow
citizens, my opinion of non-Americans is even poorer.
Americans are merely stupid. The French are actively
evil.



Jeff Russell wrote:
> I agree with your initial point but the anti-American rhetoric is very thick
> and not true.
>
> "Larry Smith" > wrote in message
> ...
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>>Anthony Ewell wrote:
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>>
>>>Dude! She did not commit fraud (insider trading). Those charges
>>>were thrown out of court. She was convicted of lying to
>>>investigators.
>>
>>Yes. She was (I am not kidding) convicted of lying about
>>not committing inside trading. Only in America could some-
>>one not even be charged, let alone tried, for some crime,
>>but convicted and sentenced to prison for denying she
>>committed the crime she wasn't charged with. And then
>>we wonder why the rest of the world worries that we have
>>nuclear weapons...
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