Theos-Talk Archives (March 2003 Message tt00280)

Steve Stubbs wrote:
> There are a number of possible reasons, including the Hollywood 
> Blacklist, the House Unamerican Activities Commitee, Senator Joe 
> McCarthy, 
A period which lasted only a couple of years, and turned out to have 
more truth to it than was originally thought.

> the Nixon enemies list, 
One man. And a small list. I must admit that Clinton did a far more 
thorough job than Richard Nixon in that regard, however.

> the Vietnam War, 
Yes, what happened in Viet Nam after the United States left has shown 
how wrong the U.S. was to be in there. Consider how terrible it would 
have been had the millions of people slaughtered by the Communist 
governments that came in had been around; there would have not been 
those beautiful slaughtergrounds.

> the pursuit of Daniel Elllsberg,
All he did was steal military secrets. No reason at all to pursue him.

> the railroading of Alger Hiss, 
Records unearthed after the fall of the Soviet government confirmed 
that Alger Hiss was, in fact, guilty.

> the Watergate breakin, the sbsequent coverup, 
Standard political procedure all around the world, before and since.

> the last phase of the Jim Crow era,
In other words, the ending of it. Do you think the U.S. should have 
kept it going instead?

> Enron, Worldcomm, the Imclone scandal, 
Which were actions AGAINST the U.S. government, not BY them.

> deliberate use of chemical, 
> biologica;, and buclear weapons on US citizens and those of other 
> countries, 
What chemical and biological weapons were used? And what US citizens 
other than soldiers were exposed to them?

> Pol Pot, 
Wasn't he a Communist?

> the murder of Salvator Allende,
You have proof of U.S. involvement?

> the effort to 
> illegally bring down the democratically elected government of 
> Nicaraugua, 
Elected at gunpoint; there were more Soviet soldiers in Nicaraugua than 
there were Nicarauguans.

> environmental destruction in Central America, global
> warming, aic rain,
The U.S. government did none of the above.

> extinvtion of millions of species, 
Name 10.

> millions of 
> babies in Iraq killed by US sanctions, 
Millions of babies in Iraq by the actions of Saddam Hussein, who steals 
their food money to make weapons of mass destruction. The United States 
is trying to STOP that, but you don't want them to. You would rather 
have the babies die.

> and most recently shenanigans in Florida 
Luckily, the criminals lost that one.

> and a projected war in Iraq for the enrichment of afew 
> private individuals. 
If that were the motive, there are far easier ways to achieve it, 
including forcing contracts on Kuwait, or taking over Venezuala in the 
name of the "war on drugs".

Bart Lidofsky