On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 09:26:39PM -0300, Cecilia Tanaka wrote:
On Jul 1, 2016 8:21 PM, "Zenaan Harkness" <zen@freedbms.net> wrote:
Land of the free. Home of the brave.
All hail America.
Zenaan, my dear, your country serves Vegemite to children. It's a pretty serious crime against humanity and it occurs daily, in all Australian schools.
<feels great shame> Guilty as charged dear Cecilia. <quietly pulls brown paper bag over head> <smacks lips in quiet guilty self satisfaction from this morning's vegemite and butter on toast, struggles to cope with the knowledge that he will commit the same crime again tomorrow; guilt is such a terrible, terrible thing>
It has lots of sodium, a disgusting flavour and stinks more than my disastrous homemade Sauerkraut. Am I saying "Hail Australia", Land of Vegemite and Home of Crocodilo Dundee? :-)
Well, you just did - Yay Crocodilo PONIES!!!! :D
This crime was horrible, really shocking and sad, but the point is recognizing publicly the existence of a repulsive crime and never more permiss that something similar occurs in the whole world, not just criticizing a country. Sorry, it doesn't make sense.
1) The number of crimes being committed by American govt and its organs (CIA, NSA, five eyes, FBI, private corporations running their jails, their diplomats, their banking cartels, their MIC, their corporations, their "rendition", their illegal unlawful unethical prison jurisdictions, their ...) is almost beyond belief. The hegemon "America" is out of control and perpetrating evil on a scale the world finds difficult to even grasp, and regular Americans seem to be in a lot of denial about the depth, breadth, intensity and persistence through time of the wrongs their government continues to perpetrate in their name. 2) Blindness to the problems, or doing nothing to fix the problems, is called acquiescence, and is also called tacit consent - i.e. Americans who are not opposing their government, are by default (tacitly) consenting to the evil perpetrated in their name.
I do love my country, but it never will be a blind stupid love. There are lots of disgusting crimes here and also in your country, in the USA, in Russia, in the whole world. No exceptions.
I am in vigorous and persistent proclamation of the evils being perpetrated by the idiots in my Australian government. I continue to participate, decade in and out, in grass roots groups who make steps to fix some of these problems. As best as I am capable. Many Aussies I've come across are very complacent, comfortable and to be honest, apathetic. We are such a young country, immature in many ways from "ooh you're not yet 18 you mustn't touch a drop of alcohol, even though we know this leads to Aussies being some of the greatest binge drinkers in the world" to our population-wide immaturity around relationships and sexuality (second only to America it seems), to our bloody idiot politicians like Tony Abbot (previous prime minister) publicly saying he will "shirt front" (bounce his chest against, in order to topple over) the Russian president Putin (yes it wouldn't really happen, but shit, how firetrucking immature can we Aussies be? We're a bloody embarrassment to the world!!!) We Australians "punch way above our weight category" on an international level, in many forums - mostly sport, but also science and computing and business, and we have a steady parade of actors who make it to Hollywood. We can be rightfully proud of our limited cultural, scientific and humanitarian achievements and I don't deny this to my fellow Australians. Yet the reality is, we can do SO much better, and we have many problems, and evils being perpetrated and perpetuated in our name, which we absolutely MUST fix up/ stop! Australians need to grow the f!#$ up!
The USA are not my favorite country, but it was not a regional problem. Violent crimes happen in every single country of this world, including Russia. Please, remember it.
I agree. But the USA government is most definitely not a regional problem. It is a military, financial and political hegemon. And it is perpetrating murder, democratic goverment overthrows, coups, war, torture, "cultural export", and basically worldwide thuggery in the name of some bullshit ideology of "democracy". This is a very great evil, being done by America, and supported by many Western countries such as Australia, Germany, France, the UK and plenty of other me-toos. We must not fail to do everything we can to name the World's Greatest Problem today, to educate people about this problem, and to work towards something less problematic. THIS is why I will never let up on America - not until they stop murdering and torturing and overthrowing peoples all around the world, in the name of "Democracy" or whatever the firetruck ideology they want to pretend to be "promoting" with these techniques (murder, torture, overthrow, etc).
Ah, for your knowledge, I hate all the governments, including Russian. No exceptions here too. As Mirimir, I love Russian people, but it is too much innocence believing that Russian government is better than North-American government. Both are disgusting.
At the moment, the consequences are quite different. I am confident, seeing the actions of current Russian govt lead by Putin, so much restraint in the face of so much Western provocations, for so many years, that Putin will continue to cause Russia to act conservatively and towards a multi polar (politically) world. He will win the next election, his popularity guarantees that, which means another 7 to 8 years for him, and for the world for which I am very greatful. Next Russian president, of course I cannot predict. But Putin, yes I can confidently continue to predict, as his personal record is unimpeachable - every country could be extremely proud. I really really hope that the next Russian president after Putin (in about 7 years time from now) will reach at least half the standard of Putin in leading Russia. Remember, the 10 to 15% of Russians who disapprove of Putin, think he is much too soft against the West's provocations... this is a very serious point. Soros and the Neocons wanted to provoke significant reactions from Russia, and they did not get it, so they have no excuse to raise WWII (not yet anyway) - how can I be anything other than EXTEREMELY grateful to Putin and those in the current Russian parliament who support him? We should all be grateful for the current situation in Russia - there is absolutely no comparison to America's actions on the international stage, AT this point in time in history. I hope my passionate reply is ok :) Cecilia, thank you so very much for your speaking from your heart. You do speak important truth which I support. It is very good for us to focus on the love that individual humans bring to this world. I hope that more and more love can go into actions which bring the governments of the world into more alignment with what is good and healing for this world and its people. I think we share very similar hopes for the future... Have a wonderful day, Zenaan