From: hennessy@acsu.buffalo.edu (DOG BASEBALL!!!)
Newsgroups: alt.music.alternative
Subject: Re: Why I hate Sinead
Date: 6 Nov 92 19:27:21 GMT
Organization: Ministry of Information, Lower Volta.

Inscribed upon tablet <RJC.92Nov5142909@daiches.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>, the mighty rjc@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Caley) records thusly:
-=>In article <dlcogswe.720394854@vela>, Dan Cogswell (dc) writes:
-=>
-=>dc> she went walking by my friend, who was wearing a black tee-shirt
-=>dc> with an eagle on it and the American flag in the background.  She
-=>dc> stopped and just stared at my friend (who was protecting *HER*
-=>dc> from all the people that wanted to kick her ass) and gave him a
-=>dc> dirty look and kept walking.
-=>
-=>Sounds like a perfectly natural reaction to me. You may not have
-=>noticed, but outside the USA, that kind of silly jingoistic
-=>symbol has been out of fashion for decades, except amongst neo-nazis. 

	That kind of silly jingoistic symbol seems to be coming back into
fashion among lots of folks around the world..  look at the CIS, eastern
europe, etc..  they look up to the American ideal of freedom (even if it
doesn't exist here)..  Even if the woman doesn't agree on what the US
government does, that doesn't mean she should take it out on some poor shmo
(shmoe for you Quayle types).  Kinda like if I got all ticked off at you,
personally, for the injustices the British have visited upon the Irish for the
last thousand or so years.  But I don't.  Because I am rational and I give
people the benefit of the doubt, and I don't assume that government speaks for
people.

-=>
-=>What would your reaction be if you were walking along and saw someone
-=>in an SS uniform?

	uhh, last time I checked, we BEAT the SS..  not only is this
association patently untrue, unfair, and silly, it is also insulting.

-=>
-=>dc> We wanted to grab the back of her skull and smash her stupid face into a
-=>dc> brick wall. 
-=>
-=>Ok, maybe it does have the same associations in the USA.

	hmm, is this a common thread here?  what have Americans done to you?
did your spouse run off with one?  did you lose your job to one?  what's this
irrational antipathy?  Jeez, you've got some serious tolerance to learn, pal.

-=>
-=>dc> I'll admit she's a decent singer, and I even agree with some of the
-=>dc> things she's mad about, but she ought to learn that she's stepping on
-=>dc> the wrong toes.
-=>
-=>Oh, horrers, can't have singers stepping on the wrong toes! Next thing
-=>you know they'll be criticising the president or I Love Lucy or being
-=>Jewish or...

	...Maybe if she was more rational, had some visible reason for being
such an intolerable woman, we'd have more sympathy.  

	to the rest of the net:  sorry about the non-musical rant, but this
person's post made me physically sick.  I simply can not stand by when someone
attacks my country (and, by association, me) irrationally.

-=>
-=>--
-=>rjc@cogsci.ed.ac.uk	The difference between us an all the other bands,
-=>			Is that wer're different.
-=>				- HMHB


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