mister b wrote:
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:54:27 -0700, Stephen Trapani wrote:

Let me guess. You think the world is going down the ****ter thanks
mostly to the US who is polluting and trying to colonize the world.

I think that when you only have 5% of the world's population and consume
30-35% of the worlds energy and resources and produce 30-35% of the
world's pollution...something is out of whack and only the most woefully
ignorant would ignore that...

The US provides a majority of the world's advancement in Science and
technology as well as much of the actual fruits of those advancements.
If you calculate our energy use and pollution relative to the quality of
life we improve for ourselves and the rest of the world, nothing is out
of whack at all.

as to most US-based multinational
corporations and their activities in the political, economic and
environmental spheres...their record runs the gamut from shameful to
sociopathic.

Yeah, to tree huggers and cave dwellers. Those of us who value and
appreciate all the modern resources and products provided by those
multinational companies realize that their record is one of providing a
good product at a fair price for the sake of increasing our quality of life.

You think we should all live and let live,

yes, until such time as your actions affect me negatively...then I get to
kick your ass...repeatedly...until your IQ goes up and you decide to ****
off

Oh good, so you're in favor of killing off the Islamic extremists who
attacked our country too. Good.

there is no form of government that is better than any other

nonsense, there are many great flavours of democracy but the American
form is no longer one of them...take the UK, France, any of the
Scandinavian countries... but you're so convinced of your superiority as
a result of a lifetime of propagandisation that you can't even conceive it

Of course there are many great free nations. The US isn't the only one,
just the best.

the US has no business fighting anyone else's wars.

the US has no business invading sovereign states under false pretences,
it's leadership cynically lying to it's citizens, creating paranoia among
the ignorant and squandering the wealth of it's citizens, the lives of
it's young service people and the reputation of the US worldwide, for
perhaps generations to come

Yeah, "perhaps" Or actually, not.

...and then there are the 1.5 billion Chinese
and nearly 1 billion Indians who are watching the behaviour of the US
very carefully...

9/11 was a set up by the US government

the only thing that you as an average ignorant American peasant can say
for certain about the WTC is that *you have no ****ing clue whatsoever
who planned and executed that attack*...since your next line indicates
you've drunk deeply from the kool-aid, you are apparently satisfied with
the pablum of propaganda served up by your politicians and can return
your attention to the important things in life...like cheap beer and pro-
football.

Hahaha. What a kook! The magic demolition of the towers. Was it Criss
Angel who did it? David Copperfield? Penn and Teller?

and so we really have nothing to fear from Islamic extremists.

my personal safety is more at risk from dumbass Americans crossing the
border with their goddamn handguns hidden in their cars/boats than any
Islamic terrorist...

Hahaha. Hilarious! Meanwhile your country continues to suck off the US
like a giant leach. Kind of hypocritical, don't you think?

the world's safety is more at risk from dumbass
Christian extremists who advise the dumbass currently in charge of the
launch codes...and with these same dumbasses *believing* that the "end
time" wouldn't be such a bad thing at all with all of that going up to
see Jesus in heaven crap that goes along with a nuclear armageddon...

Wooooooo! The Boogieman is after you!! Run!

you
can understand why some of us aren't exactly filled with confidence about
our safety...

Yeah I understand. It's mental illness.

kinda tough on all those hundreds of millions of children
though...being incinerated alive...ah what the hell eh Steve...they
probably aren't the "good people" you wrote about.

Incinerated?? Don't you mean disappeared into thin air with the hidden
ultra secret weapon Bush and his evil cronies are saving for the right
moment? -Priceless.

Stephen