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You belong on a Yahoo message board with all the other idiots.




"neopolaris" <upick@whatever.com> wrote in message
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> Don't worry about us (US)  we will be fine.
>
> neopolaris
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> "Needalife" <NEEDALIFE01@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote in message
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> > Your saying Boycott The Body Shop??
> >
> > But isn't one of Americas greatest freedoms, freedom of speech and
> > expression??
> > Doesn't anyone here have the right to express themselves??
> >
> > Don't like what they are saying, then don't read or listen...  It's
> > when we are told what we can say or get punished for saying what we
> > want that ALL rights here are gone and what was said below becomes
> > true and this country becomes a dictatorship...
> >
> > Me
> >
> > On 29 Sep 2002 23:41:25 GMT, qigdly@britshit.org wrote:
> >
> > >Description: Anita Roddick (founder and CEO of  The Body Shop)
commentary
> for the London Independent regarding American civil liberties since
> 9/11/2001
> > >
> > >---
> > >
> > >How has the world changed since Sept. 11? For one thing, Europeans no
> longer aspire to *be* Americans.
> > >
> > >Who would, given how that country moves steadily and inexorably toward
> dictatorship? The American people, in a scant 12 months, have had their
> once-enviable civil liberties outrageously eroded in the name of
patriotism.
> The ideals of freedom and democracy which America pledges to export across
> the globe have been perverted so spectacularly at home that America's
> admirers hardly recognise her anymore.
> > >
> > >Where once Americans reveled in their uniquely American right and
> willingness to criticize their government, they are now told that those
who
> dissent are no better than terrorists, or terrorists themselves. They have
> had their pride of country, their patriotism, hijacked by a
self-interested
> and short-sighted government which steals freedoms from its own people and
> gives riches to corporations and "security" infrastructures such as the
> military, FBI, and CIA, all of which which have proven, in the past 12
> months, to be either fatally incompetent and totally corrupt.
> > >
> > >Those Americans who would question their government are told to "watch
> what they say." The FBI has been given broad reign to spy on citizens with
> phone taps and email snoops. Long-held ideals of fair and speedy trials
are
> thrown out the window as suspected terrorists and sympathizers are
> "disappeared" like the enemies of Pinochet 20 years ago in Chile.
> > >
> > >In exchange for their freedoms, Americans are not safer now than they
> were a year ago; in fact, they are probably less so. Their government is a
> rogue state, rejecting international consensus on every front and
> threatening first-strike nuclear attacks and politically expedient
invasions
> of sovereign nations. America has more nuclear, biological, and chemical
> weapons that any other country, and it is the only nation to have used
such
> a weapon against another. And still it stubbornly refuses any
international
> effort or treaty to regulate, minimise, or eliminate such weapons, even as
> it uses Iraq's suspected possession of (or mere desire for) them as reason
> for wholesale attack.
> > >
> > >America's us-against-the-world mentality has managed to wear away
almost
> all of the remarkable international sympathy it built up just after Sept.
> 11. Bush & Co. has slapped the international community in the face as the
it
> tried to embrace and console the United States. Now the enmity has left
> America alone, more reviled and isolated internationally than before.
> > >
> > >The scars of Ground Zero will heal, the grief at the loss of so many
> innocents will ease, but the damage the United States has inflicted on
> itself will last far longer. To hell with George Bush; God save America.
> > >---
> > >
> > >A version of this article appeared in the London Independent on Sept.
11,
> 2002
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> > >-
> > >-
> > >
> > >ityinibjulwjozut
> >
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