In response to both David & Michael, this, just part of a mail sent on to
me, written by a Michael Moore (what follows comes after he tells of the
laxity of airport security & the salaries of junior pilots ($15,000/ yr):
>What I do know is that all day long I have heard everything about this bin
>Laden guy except this one fact -- WE created the monster known as Osama
>bin Laden!
>
>Where did he go to terrorist school? At the CIA!
>
>Don't take my word for it -- I saw a piece on MSNBC last year that laid it
>all out. When the Soviet Union occupied Afghanistan, the CIA trained him
>and his buddies in how to commits acts of terrorism against the Soviet
>forces. It worked! The Soviets turned and ran. Bin Laden was grateful for
>what we taught him and thought it might be fun to use those same
>techniques against us.
>
>We abhor terrorism -- unless we're the ones doing the terrorizing.
>
>We paid and trained and armed a group of terrorists in Nicaragua in the
>1980s who killed over 30,000 civilians. That was OUR work. You and me.
>Thirty thousand murdered civilians and who the hell even remembers!
>
>We fund a lot of oppressive regimes that have killed a lot of innocent
>people, and we never let the human suffering THAT causes to interrupt our
>day one single bit.
>
>We have orphaned so many children, tens of thousands around the world,
>with our taxpayer-funded terrorism (in Chile, in Vietnam, in Gaza, in
>Salvador) that I suppose we shouldn't be too surprised when those orphans
>grow up and are a little whacked in the head from the horror we have
>helped cause.
>
>Yet, our recent domestic terrorism bombings have not been conducted by a
>guy from the desert but rather by our own citizens: a couple of
>ex-military guys who hated the federal government.
>
> From the first minutes of today's events, I never heard that possibility
> suggested. Why is that?
>
>Maybe it's because the A-rabs are much better foils. A key ingredient in
>getting Americans whipped into a frenzy against a new enemy is the
>all-important race card. It's much easier to get us to hate when the
>object of our hatred doesn't look like us.
>
>Congressmen and Senators spent the day calling for more money for the
>military; one Senator on CNN even said he didn't want to hear any more
>talk about more money for education or health care -- we should have only
>one priority: our self-defense.
>
>Will we ever get to the point that we realize we will be more secure when
>the rest of the world isn't living in poverty so we can have nice running
>shoes?
>
>In just 8 months, Bush gets the whole world back to hating us again. He
>withdraws from the Kyoto agreement, walks us out of the Durban conference
>on racism, insists on restarting the arms race -- you name it, and Baby
>Bush has blown it all.
>
>The Senators and Congressmen tonight broke out in a spontaneous version of
>"God Bless America." They're not a bad group of singers!
>
>Yes, God, please do bless us.
Thoughts to worry all...
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
We deserve overtime
for dealing daily with these mistreated burdens.
Clark Coolidge
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