From: corun@access.digex.com (Corun MacAnndra)
Subject: Re: DAMN THIS LIE!!!!
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 21:12:22 GMT

In article <-1364863255snx@Gilsys.DIALix.oz.au> gil@Gilsys.DIALix.oz.au (Gil Hardwick) writes:
>
>Well, actually most of what we get here are reports from the press and
>diplomatic corps on the Washington neighbourhoods. 

Are you talking about the state, or the District of Comlumbia? And are you
really so gullible as to believe everything the press or diplomatic corps
tells you?

>I would be very
>relieved indeed to be proven wrong, although in the meantime nothing
>I read or hear from any source about North America encourages me to
>visit the place.

Good. Stay in Australia. Please!

>Just as one example among many, we all know what you did to Vietnam,
>whatever reason you might have come up with for doing it, which gives
>me some insight into just how far you will go in simply obliterating
>people right off of the planet you don't happen to like, and what
>morality might be influencing your younger generations today.

For your information, bucko, *I* didn't do a damn thing to Vietnam. I
was in school at a college where the favourite past time of the National
Guard was shooting the students protesting that very war. When was the
last time you got off your fat ass and protested anything except your
right to spout drivel and make bigoted remarks to people about their
countries. Just how many of the indiginous life forms in Australia did 
your ancestors wipe out, up to and including the aborigines you *claim* 
to be studying?

>If the US has something more hopeful and promising to offer the world
>than mass bloodshed, and the economic, social and cultural ruin of
>anything that does not happen to resemble things American, please do
>go ahead and show us.

If your people are so bloody special, then why the hell aren't they a
more prominent first world nation? Why isn't Australia doing something
to help the rest of the world? I've met a couple of Australians face
to face, and they've all turned out to be either bigoted drunks who
have no respect for women or anyone else they consider to be a lower
form of life, or complete chowder heads without so much as clue one. 
Does this mean I should judge *all* Australians this way? The way you
automatically judge all Americans by what you read in some cheap tabloid?
You need a real big bowl of Reality Chex. Until you come over here to
live for a few years, and meet the real people of this country, you
should be a little more judicious in what you say, especially if you're
going to go off on all of us, and blame us for things we either weren't
around for or had no control over. How much control do *you* have over
your government? Not bloody much, I'll wager. And maybe we should blame
you for the atrocities your people performed on the aborigines 100 years
ago. Actually, from what I heard from an Aussie this summer, you still
do practice discrimination of the abos, though maybe you don't drive them
into a billibong and slaughter them wholesale. But then, maybe we don't
get *all* the news from down under, either.

Corun


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