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On Fri, 14 September 2001, guillame debord wrote:
>
> o:[email protected]:Marciaatlantic.netDate:
> Thu, 13 Sep 2001 12:57:01 -0400
> Reply-to:zizek-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:[zizek-l] A little praise from a Canadian
> Without pausing to digest or respond to Zizek's
> remarks, and at the risk
> of appearing maudlin, I'm going to post this bit of
> friendly discourse
> from a Canadian source, now going around the internet,
> and which Peter
> Jennings just quoted, teary, on ABC news.
> This is how I've received from two people on the net:
> **********************************
> This from a Canadian newspaper is worth sharing:
> TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES
> America: The Good Neighbor.
> Widespread but only partial news coverage was given to
> a recent remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto
> by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television commentator.
> What follows is the full text of his Trenchant
> remarks as printed in the Congressional Record:
> "This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the
> Americans as the most
> generous and possibly the least appreciated people on
> allthe 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
> ri-Star, or the Douglas DC10? If so, why don't
> they fly them? Why do all the International lines
> except Russia fly American Planes? 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 storewindow 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 oubles. I hope Canada is not one of
> those."
> Stand proud, America!
> Wear it proudly!!
>
>
>
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On Fri, 14 September 2001, guillame debord wrote:
>
> o:[email protected]:Marciaatlantic.netDate:
> Thu, 13 Sep 2001 12:57:01 -0400
> Reply-to:zizek-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:[zizek-l] A little praise from a Canadian
> Without pausing to digest or respond to Zizek's
> remarks, and at the risk
> of appearing maudlin, I'm going to post this bit of
> friendly discourse
> from a Canadian source, now going around the internet,
> and which Peter
> Jennings just quoted, teary, on ABC news.
> This is how I've received from two people on the net:
> **********************************
> This from a Canadian newspaper is worth sharing:
> TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES
> America: The Good Neighbor.
> Widespread but only partial news coverage was given to
> a recent remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto
> by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television commentator.
> What follows is the full text of his Trenchant
> remarks as printed in the Congressional Record:
> "This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the
> Americans as the most
> generous and possibly the least appreciated people on
> allthe 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
> ri-Star, or the Douglas DC10? If so, why don't
> they fly them? Why do all the International lines
> except Russia fly American Planes? 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 storewindow 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 oubles. I hope Canada is not one of
> those."
> Stand proud, America!
> Wear it proudly!!
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________________
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca
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