Theos-Talk Archives (March 2003 Message tt00304)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Steve Stubbs" <stevestubbs@y...> 
wrote:
> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl@s...> wrote:
> > Mic Forster wrote:
> > > --- Dennis Kier <dennw3k@e...> wrote:
> > > The business of the USA since
> > > 
> > >>the 1940s has been
> > >>freedom and liberation, for the most part.
> > > 
> > > Thanks for the good joke, Dennis....I really needed a laugh....
> > 
> > And why do you think it is a joke?
> > 
> > Bart Lidofsky
> 
> There are a number of possible reasons, including the Hollywood 
> Blacklist, the House Unamerican Activities Commitee, Senator Joe 
> McCarthy, the Nixon enemies list, the Vietnam War, the pursuit of 
> aniel Elllsberg, the railroading of Alger Hiss, the Watergate 
> breakin, the sbsequent coverup, the last phase of the Jim Crow era, 
> Enron, Worldcomm, the Imclone scandal, deliberate use of chemical, 
> biologica;, and buclear weapons on US citizens and those of other 
> countries, Pol Pot, the murder of Salvator Allende, the effort to 
> illegally bring down the democratically elected government of 
> Nicaraugua, environmental destruction in Central America, global 
> warming, aic rain, extinvtion of millions of species, millions of 
> babies in Iraq killed by US sanctions, and most recently 
shenanigans 
> in Florida and a projected war in Iraq for the enrichment of afew 
> private individuals. That is a greatly bbreviated list.
> 
> You are right, though, that the joke is not funny.

Now add to that I just heard Martin Sheen has been asked to NOT 
return as the president on The West Wing. Has anyone else heard this? 
It is said to have come from the highest levels of the network 
because they don't like his activism and anti-war talk. 

Netemara