A Usenet persona calling itself Michael Daly wrote:

On 10-Feb-2005, Scott Weiser wrote:

are trying to export that what they call "democracy".

Wah. Democracy works. Socialism doesn't.

The irony is that you didn't even get what he said.

Oh but I did.


We care deeply what you think. We just think you're deluded and oppressed,
and we want to educate you about the benefits of representative democracy
and capitalism, which is what makes the US the most powerful, influential
and free nation on the planet.

So Americans are free and everyone else is oppressed?

Pretty much.

I guess you've never
read the Patriot Act of other gross abuses of freedom.

Actually, I have. Have you? Can you cite the "gross abuses of freedom" you
claim the Patriot Act includes?

American influence
is waning because of your arrogance and gradually declining economic status.

Every nation has its ups and downs. Still, people are clamoring to get here
and buy our products.

100 years ago, Britain was the world power; fifty years later it was broke
and losing influence. Why should anyone believe the yanks will last any
longer given that they pay almost no attention to the reality of what's
going on around them?

Not subscribing to the political dogmas of the rest of the world is
different than paying no attention. We pay close attention. We choose not to
subscribe to policies that we believe are harmful to liberty and freedom.


To assume that the US is the only free and democratic nation is both naive
and a grotesque misrepresentation of facts.

Really? Cite me one single nation other than the US that is both democratic
and protects the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.

If you don't have a right to keep and bear arms, you are not, ipso facto,
free, you are a slave to your government because you do not have the
capacity to overthrow it should it become a tyranny.


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Scott Weiser

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