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- From: bob1@cos.com (Bob Blackshaw)
- Subject: Re: What is United States of America like?
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 16:43:18 GMT
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- In <1992Dec23.004028.23837@nntp.hut.fi> jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) writes:
-
- >In article <bob1.725046465@cos>, bob1@cos (Bob Blackshaw) writes:
- >>Sorry Mark, I'm not blind to the faults of our government, nor am I blind
- >>to areas where things can be improved. It's simply that I can't recall the
- >>last time (or any time) when I stuck my nose and mouth into the internal
- >>affairs of Finland, The United Kingdom, or the countries of any of the
- >>other U.S.'s self appointed critics. If that pisses them, or you, off
- >>try and imagine how upset I will be.
-
- >Perhaps that's at least partly because the Finnish government has not
- >pressured the country you live in to institute a drug prohibition, is
- >not trying to change the patent and copyright legislation of it, is
- >not forcing the country to conform to the Finnish ideas of export
- >regulations, is not in the habit of invading other countries and shoot
- >some people to kidnap their heads of state and engage in other acts of
- >terrorism, does not hold the world's biggest nuclear arsenal (I
- >think), and so on.
-
- While the claims of who won the Cold War are debatable, would you rather
- we had simply let the communists develop the biggest nuclear arsenal?
-
- As to pressure re drugs, they don't do it with my knowledge or consent,
- as I think the so-called 'war on drugs' is/was a mistaken way of going
- about the problem.
-
- What about other countries pressuring us on GATT to weaken our laws
- regarding pesticides in farm produce, etc., these same countries
- who put on such a big show in Rio?
-
- Copyright laws? Sure, lets just let the rest of the world rip-off
- our inventions and work. I mean why not, we've got enough money
- as it is.
-
- As to the invasion of Panama - sure someone blew it, but if I'm
- expected to have sympathy for Noriega, don't count on it. Also,
- I seem to recall a few of our people - university teachers and
- news reporters who were held someplace for a few years through
- the efforts of a 'foriegn government' (even though they hid
- behind the Hezbollah (sp?).
-
- Hey! We aren't perfect and have been known to screw up on occasion.
- But on the one hand the rest of the world says we should go in
- here with the army, we should go in there with the marines, then
- when we do we're in deep s**t. Isolationism begins to sound
- better every day.
-
- What you are doing is sure a funny way of going about getting the
- results you seem to want. If I thought the policies of the Finnish
- government vis-a-vis the U.S. were strange, I would not post in
- soc.culture.finland in quite the way you have. If you get a few
- folks backs up, don't be surprised.
-
- >//Jyrki
-
- Bob.
-
-