From: bud@mtek.com (Bud Hovell)
Newsgroups: alt.activism
Subject: Re: ***(NEW EDITION) JAPANYES;VERY POPULAR PAPER ON JAPANESE BUSINESS STRATEGY (2of2)
Date: 13 Dec 92 08:17:12 GMT
Reply-To: bud@mtek.com
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jpark@rwja.umdnj.edu (John Park) writes:

>Now, after the election, the general mood seems more optimistic.

This actually became noticeable several weeks before the election,
and has probably been heightened recently by announcement of stronger
economic performance in October -- which the Prez-Elect had nothing
to do with. (Though I have no doubt that in four years he will lay
claim to the notion that he managed to improve the economy several
months before even being sworn into office. :-)

>Also to be made to feel as an "enemy of the United States" is
>truly frightening, and it is an offense to one's honor to be
>labelled "unamerican."

It is -- and it's a slander, if said publically. Your lawyer
could probably get the speaker's attention closely focused on
a change in that behavior.

>My father took a deep cut in pay and career advancement,
>to work in a war Veterans' hospital. I am hoping to work in
>medical research to help in some way as well.  Things may be
>different on the west coast, but it's truly depressing
>here on the east coast.

Move. I've lived on both coasts -- most of my earlier life up
and down the East coast, from New York State to Florida, with
time in many states between. The North is no less screwed up
than is the South -- just more boorishly hypocritical in its
fundamental intolerance.

(You may remember that fine man Ted Kennedy who, some years
ago, lapsed into a deep and unbroken silence -- similar to the
one he manifested during the Thomas hearings -- when some of the
good Irishmen of Boston virtually rioted against the notion of
having blacks move into *their* neighborhoods: bigotry only
bothers him when it occurs *outside* communities he represents.
He's an extreme representative of the breed, I'm afraid.)

Move. The West isn't perfect, to be sure, but it generates a
whole lot less of the self-contradictory flapdoodle that so
often masquarades as "social enlightenment" amongst much of
the East coast citizenry. Moreover, there is a sizeable
population of Asians in many West coast communities, and most
people here have more-immediate awareness of the injustices
done by Mr. Roosevelt to Japanese-Americans, simply because
many were residents on this end of the country. This has, I
think, encouraged somewhat more respectful attitudes toward
Asians (and other racial minorities) in general.

[ Indeed, there are some of use who would love to merge Canada
and the US, then split it vertically to form two countries, al-
lowing the East ("Atlantic North America") to do it's thing, and
the rest of us ("Pacific North America") to do ours. If the Can-
adians felt really strongly about it, I'd even be willing to call
our end "New Canada", adopt the Parliamentary System, and maybe
join the Commonwealth. It would certainly be a reasonable price
to pay to escape perpetual overlordship by that ignoble band of
unclever criminals known collectively as the U.S. Congress. ]

If you want to be a martyr, stay. If you only have one life to
enjoy, move.
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