democracy down the throats of people who do not want it or are not ready for
it. These "wars" where we don't declare war are just to profiteering at its
best and totally illegal.
I didn't get a feeling from her posts that she was anti-German but that she
was expressing her experiences when she was there and her distaste of what
she experienced. Critical thinking and discussion of how other countries
are government is healthy for us and I think can help us put into
perspective our own government, history and methods. She obviously has her
own point of view, whether or not you think it is accurate as a whole I
don't think it's right say she's doing it to insult the Germans or out of
prejudice. She did live there and has a right to formulate her own point of
view based on her own experiences.
Dawn
From: native-nutrition@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:native-nutrition@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Bill
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 10:54 AM
To: native-nutrition@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [NN] Re: POLITICAL: Obama's Agricultural Sec Vilsack
--- In native-nutrition@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:native-nutrition%40yahoogroups.com> , "slbooks4me"
<beauty4ashesisaiah61@...> wrote:
> Your holier than thou attitude and covered insults are offensive to me. I
am totally entitled to my opinion and have a right to liken it to
dictatorship,
Either they are a dictatorship or not--the form of government a state has is
not an opinion. I did my best to draw out the distortions in your factual
information that you have blown up to make it appear Germany is like the
Soviet Union. It is a profoundly distorted picture, objectively so, in part
because you deny that other cultures are allowed to make their own decisions
about how they run their society without running afoul of your very narrow
and self-satisfied definition of what universal human rights entails.
Anything that is a difference from us (home-schooling, vitamins, etc.) is a
sign of a fundamental denial of human rights.
This is the kind of nonsense that leads to aggressive wars to "spread our
god-given way of life" and it's why Americans are called "ugly Americans"
wherever we go. Its arrogant and refuses to understand different points of
view by ruling them out of court in advance. You began by viciously
insulting an entire country as a dictatorship that has taken remarkable
efforts to overcome the period in their history when they had a real
dictatorship. It's a cheap and insulting take on a modern, vibrant,
democratic country (like calling the French cowards for losing to the
Germans in WWII when many exhibited extreme courage in the Underground). You
don't just state that you would prefer to live in a country where you can
get megadoses of vitamins and home schooling, but that any country that does
not allow for these is an oppressive dictatorship. Then when I try to
disentangle your mix of cherry-picked facts and cultural prejudices, you
throw a fit and shout "it's just my opinion!"
Bill
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