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Titolo: X Petisso e gli altri di ISCN (lungo)

Mi permetto di intervenire nel vostro bellissimo ISCN per riprodurre il
testo dell'editoriale radiofonico di un noto commentatore canadese, Gordon
Sinclair. L'editoriale fu pronunciato nel 1973 e contiene anacronismi
evidenti. Il suo spirito pero' e' talmente attuale che molti americani
leggendolo in questi giorni di lutto cadono letteralmente in lacrime. Le
mie scuse per chi non legge l'inglese.
Broadcast June 5, 1973, CFRB, Toronto, Ontario
 
America: The Good Neighbor.
"This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the
Americans as the most generous and possibly the least
appreciated people on all the earth.
Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and
Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the
Americans who poured in billions of dollars and
forgave other billions in debts. None of these
countries is today paying even the interest on its
remaining debts to the United States.
When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it
was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward
was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of
Paris. I was there. I saw it.
When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United
States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59
American communities were flattened by tornadoes.
Nobody helped.
The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped
billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now
newspapers in those countries are writing about the
decadent, warmongering Americans.
I'd like to see just one of those countries that is
gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar
build its own airplane. Does any other country in the
world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the
Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10? If so, why
don't they fly them? Why do all the International
lines except Russia fly American Planes?
You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs
right in the store window for everybody to look at.
Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded.
They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless
they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American
dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here.
When the railways of France, Germany and India were
breaking down through age, it was the Americans who
rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the
New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an
old caboose. Both are still broke.
I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to
the help of other people in trouble. Can you name me
even one time when someone else raced to the Americans
in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even
during the San Francisco earthquake.
Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one
Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get
kicked around. They will come out of this thing with
their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled
to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating
over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one
of those.
This year's disasters .. with the year less than 
half-over&#8230; has taken it all and nobody...but nobody... 
has helped." 
http://www.rcc.ryerson.ca/schools/rta/ccf/news/unique/am_text.html
alt.current-events.wtc-explosion
Saluti,
TP
 
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Io invece ritengo che i peggiori nemici degli Stati Uniti siano proprio
quelli che diffondono questa immagine fasulla e "hollywoodiana". Se gli
Americani e quelli che hanno a che fare con loro imparassero invece a
guardare in faccia con realismo ai meriti e ai demeriti della storia USA,
senza sentimentalismi idioti, farebbero un grande servizio all'intera
umanità.
Sembra una di quelle versioni di latino che ci propinavano a scuola dove si
elencavano tutti i meriti dei romani, omettendo con cura massacri e
oppressioni!!
Se poi si tratta di cogliere lo "spirito" americano, invece di leggere
queste vaccate leggete H. D. Thoreau.
Statemi bene

Vaccate? Gli americani sono una nazione fondamentalmente morale e
idealista, e questo discorso, appunto perche' e' ideologicamente parziale,
ne esprime lo spirito al minimo comune denominatore.
Il discorso non e'
una lezione di storia, ci dice come un simpatizzante, partecipe dello
spirito americano, vede il confronto tra questi ideali e la realta'
mondiale. Il risultato, ovviamente, e' negativo.
Thoreau o no, gli
americani si riconoscono nel discorso e questo e' cio' che conta.
Saluti,
TP
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