This is not the forum for this kind post. Please, let us stick to SuSE support issues. LW999 On Sunday 20 April 2003 22:23, Vince Littler wrote:
On Sunday 20 April 2003 9:08 pm, Jim Norton wrote:
Then again, some Americans just want to spend their money on American companies to help the American economy. Though I have used RH, Mandrake and SuSE, it's not altogether an unreasonable ideal - spend your money on products created in your homeland, for your homelands benefit.
-Jim-
The second class [non American] citizens of the world are grateful to be allowed on this list besides being grateful that President Bush protected the American steel industry by banning imports of European steel [hurting the UK steel industry - but we are only holding your coats while you fight your War of Terror].
Day after day, B52's have been flying over my house from RAF Fairford here in England to drop bombs on Iraqiis, innocent and guilty alike. It is not as if it was an operation against bin Laden, it is just that the 3000 dead of September 11 provided an convenient pretext [acceptable to the stupid] for an already planned operation against a tinpot dictator, who might really have been too shit scared to actually have any Weapons of Mass Destruction like America has. But then in the fog of war, everyone will forget to verify that issue.
The US army has been manhandling British protestors outside RAF Fairford [on UK soil], your unmarked Black Hawk helicopter was flying low [40m] over the protest march I attended, to drown speeches and disrupt - although the UK police were completely in control of the situation.
Please understand, I am white, English speaking and nearly middle aged, and I am becoming seriously pissed at general American arrogance. Don't take this too personally Jim, 'cos you are only responsible for what you said above and I don't hold you responsible for the context in which it is insensitive to say the above in an international forum. But if you sense how I feel, just imagine how non-white non-English speaking young men around the world are feeling.
So, if Americans wish to talk about doing stuff which is primarily to benefit Americans, that is fine. But if you are going to do it on an international list, please appreciate: 1] American values are NOT universal 2] Non-Americans are not a minority interest group 3] Dissent from American values is unremarkable and to be expected 4] Americans are treading on thin ice internationally at the moment
regards
Vince Littler