EU

jean-christophe helary helary at niji.or.jp
Wed Aug 15 05:36:11 PDT 2001



> Of course, in the old days, the Bananamericans would argue that their
> culture/technology was just ever so much more innovative than Europe
> and, besides, the Dow Jones was going to 30,000 in no time at all. But
> with Max Payne coming out of Helsinki and STMicro coming out of France and
> Italy, even that feeble excuse has bit the world-historical dust.
>
> -- Dennis

and they'd say that they have freedom of speech :)

btw, does really _everybody_ in the us believe that f-o-s is the sine qua non condition of 'true' democracy (maybe i am making this up ?). today is the celebration of japan's surrender. there was a meeting about 'remembering the atrocities of the war' in town and we discussed the 'new history manual' for junior high schools and the falacies it contains about japan's history. on the way back a man, from the prefecture next door (ehime, from where the school boat 'ehime maru' that was sunk by a us sub came from) and he said somewhere in the conversation "i'd die for anybody's f-o-s even if that person is a fascist". and i thought for myself "i would not". everywhere in the world, especially where they are free, fascists have it _soooo_ easy that i really don't see what i would waste a second of my time fighting for their right while i could fight for the rights of the people they oppress.

jc helary



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