> Everybody's
> entitled to an opinion, of course, and, when it comes to the United
States,
> everybody with a TV set seems to have one!
>
> Sign me
>
> (the other) Mrs. Simpson
>
Dear Mrs Simpson
it's rather hard for that mass of everybody with a TV set not to have an
opinion on the US, as said TV's seem largely inhabited by said US. We even
get American market adverts now, without the Brit voice-overs, they're
increasingly seen as dispensable.
I could say there might be a lot of people in places like Kandahar without
TV sets who suddenly have an opinion on the US too. I recall an aid worker
who left Afghanistan when the crisis began estimating that about 80 per cent
of Afghans didn't even know the US existed. I imagine they do now. What's
happened is that 'we' (the Brits as well as the US) have just bombed 'to
fuck' one of the most backward and impoverished countries in the world,
without any clear plans for its reconstruction. Or even a commitment to it,
especially in the case of the US.
Where next, I ask myself? Borneo? The Andaman Islanders? Fletcher
Christian's descendants?
Keep on marching, sister!
Best
Dave
David Bircumshaw
Leicester, England
Home Page
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www.paintstuff.20m.com/index.htm
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Candice Ward" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 9:31 AM
Subject: Re: opinion
> Sure, we're all part of it--but we don't get to vote in one another's
> countries. (By "enfranchised," I meant suffrage, literally.) Everybody's
> entitled to an opinion, of course, and, when it comes to the United
States,
> everybody with a TV set seems to have one!
>
> Sign me
>
> (the other) Mrs. Simpson
>
>
>
> on 12/9/01 3:20 AM, Alison Croggon at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
> > Actually, not sure of that, in conditions of Empire - we're all part
> > of it, culturally and economically -
> >
> > A
> >
> >
> >> Dissent is more a matter of "will not," Dave, as I trust you're saying
to
> >> your own government in your own ways. You can protest against mine too,
but
> >> I think you have to be enfranchised to dissent from it--and I wish you
were,
> >> to swell the numbers even more!
> >>
> >> Candice
> >>
> >>
> >>> Not invisible to me, Candice, but you know the saying: 'you cannot
run with
> >>> the hares and the hounds'.
> >>>
> >>> Best
> >>>
> >>> Dave
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> David Bircumshaw
> >>>
> >>> Leicester, England
> >>>
> >>> Home Page
> >>>
> >>> A Chide's Alphabet
> >>>
> >>> Painting Without Numbers
> >>>
> >>> www.paintstuff.20m.com/index.htm
> >>>
> >>> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/index.htm
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: "Candice Ward" <[log in to unmask]>
> >>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >>> Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 2:39 AM
> >>> Subject: Re: opinion
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Aw, poor you! If it's any comfort, I've back-channeled Randolph at
his
> >>>> alternative e-address in hopes of getting the WHP site opened up
> >>> soon--stay
> >>>> tuned for bouquets of compliments.
> >>>>
> >>>> And if you're wrong to be somewhat optimistic about dissent, so am I
and
> >>>> thousands of other folks here who have been rallying for weeks, if
> >>> invisibly
> >>>> to David (alas).
> >>>>
> >>>> Be well,
> >>>>
> >>>> Candice
> >
> > --
> >
> >
> > Alison Croggon
> >
> > Home page
> > http://users.bigpond.com/acroggon/
> > Masthead
> > http://au.geocities.com/masthead_2/
>
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