On Despising Western Democracies
Mar 18, 2006 06:04 AM
by carlosaveline cardoso aveline
Friends,
People who tend to describe USA's democracy as the same thing as Arab
dictatorships or even
Hitler's Germany should live two or three years in Lybia or Syria and come
back to have a better view of thing. One month in those countries may
improve their insights.
Having living two decades under a military dictatorship, I have the
experience.
In the USA, you can call G. W. Bush a killer. Go to Syria and say the
equivalent about the local "president"! To apreciate that difference, you
must have a taste of what is to live in such countries, under such
governments.
(In Latin America, we know the difference and the knowledge is often counted
in friends and relatives killed and tortured for crimes of opinion.)
Best regards, Carlos.
From: "DENNIS KIER" <kier10@comcast.net>
Reply-To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
To: <theos-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: Theos-World Re: To Jerry, on Pseudo Scholars
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 17:02:03 -0800
In 1941 & 2, a Japanese family lived across the street from me. They were
given notice, and given time to put their Greenhouse Business with another
couple to manage it while they were gone, and then they had to leave. They
weren't rounded up at gunpoint. They went peacefully, and after the war,
returned to resume their business.
In the family, there were some teen agers whom I admired a great deal. I
was
sorry to see them go. The old people didn't speak English. Now some of my
friends have parents who speak Spanish, but not English.
Dennis
----- Original Message -----
From: "krsanna" <timestar@timestar.org>
To: <theos-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 8:08 PM
Subject: Theos-World Re: To Jerry, on Pseudo Scholars
> One example of Soviet science is Kirlean photography. If you want
> to use politics and humanitarian behavior as a measure of science,
> you'll have to do some long hard looking at the U.S. Interment of
> the Japanese during World War II is a good place to start with
> American humanitarianism. The documentation of that one relatively
> small instance is good enough to make good discussion. The
> testimony of Japanese-American school children rounded up at
> gunpoint is on the books.
>
> Best regards,
> Krsanna
>
> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Drpsionic@... wrote:
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 3/16/2006 9:47:17 PM Central Standard Time,
>> bartl@... writes:
>>
>> The Soviet Union's research also showed that acquired
> characteristics
>> could be inherited, and, based on using those theories in the
> Ukraine,
>> starved to death several hundred thousand people in what is one
> of the
>> most fertile areas of the world. Of course, they fixed the
> research by
>> turning those people into unpersons.
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