From: James_Hastings-Trew@telepro.UUCP (James Hastings-Trew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: America (Was Re:Perot)
Distribution: world
Date: 12 Sep 92 00:40:09 CST
Organization: TelePro Technologies

In a message dated Fri 11 Sep 92 10:38, Abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (kelvin Leu
wrote:

> How about 'important' is a having an impact on the world? Or
>making a difference in the history of mankind?

 AL> making what kind of history? (again, no offense).  If this means
 AL> interfering
 AL> other countries' politics and internal affairs while we have no clue
 AL> what
 AL> is going on, than no thanks.  

 AL> If you mean developing atomic bombs and nuclear weapons just so we
 AL> can
 AL> keep the world peaceful, than again, no thanks.

 AL> However, if you consider combating aids as a national concern, sure,
 AL> I wouldn't
 AL> denounce that...

No, he means making a difference in the history of mankind. Central to what
"America" is are the ideas embodied in the most important and influential
document ever written in the world - The American Constitution. Prior to
the writing of the Constitution, a individual person's life and liberty
were merely at the indulgence of the State. The Constitution affirms that
an individual person own his own life and liberty, and that the state is
created for the convenience of the individual, not the other way around.

It is this single idea of liberty, freedom, and the pursuit of happiness
that has made America a shining beacon to the world. It is the idea that
has been the fuel for the dynamo of industrial innovation, scientific
breakthrough, and medical prowess that IS America. When people were being
crushed under the Communist dictatorship in the Soviet Union, their only
sliver of hope - the thing that kept them going - was the mere existence of
America. The IDEA of America - of a place where people were free, happy,
well fed and generous. The oppressed people of the world do not dream of
escaping to Sweden...

The ideas that American embodies have literally changed the course of human
history. We Canadians would not have the luxurious life-style we lead if it
were not for the close proximity to America's boundless economy. Most of
the countries emerging from the horrors of totalitarian Communism are
studying the American constitution for inspiration as they make their
first, faltering step towards freedom. Countries like Germany, Japan, and
Korea owe their great wealth, sense of life, and economic growth soley to
America and the ideas that were fostered there.

That the world is a freer, more peaceful, and more well fed now than at any
other time in human history is due soley to the existance, and influence of
America. All other countries pale in comparison to the wealth, freedom and
greatness of this land.

Yes, America has it's problems. All of them can be directly traced to
disastrous policies which undermine the essential nature of it's own
Constitution. When a government seeks to model itself as a nurse-maid, is
it any wonder that it's citizenry starts acting like children? 


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