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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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