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Originally Posted by Patricia
You are notorious on this forum for anti-French sentiments, and now are adding the UK to your list.
This is an international forum. I wonder whether you have ever thought of the effect of your words on non US members?
Many people will read them and think one or more of the following:
(i) all Americans are total idiots (which would be a regrettable and extremely inaccurate generalisation).
(ii) Americans are unable to understand political cultures other than their own. (I don't believe this is true.)
(iii) American Imperialism knows no bounds. (I hope this isn't true either)
(iv) Delphid says some things that betray an extremely limited and provincial attitude. (Judge for yourself.)
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Have you, by any chance, read your EU declaration of human rights? Have you noticed the pesky freedom of speech stuff in it? (Granted, both what the UN and the EU put forth as protection of what we in the US call 1st Amendment rights is rather mild, but still, it's an *attempt*.) Now I've *listened* to Michael Savage. I'm no supporter of most of what he advocates, but it does NOT fall into the range of advocating criminal behavior.
BTW, nowhere do I claim to think the average Brit is as bleeding STUPID as the current crop of MPs are proving themselves to be. I grant that the UK doesn't have the Bill of Rights and has come to believe that the near-police-state surveillance they now endure is, somehow, making them safer, but that's not a sign of stupidity.
Now, do I sometimes show a level of provincialism, nay backwoods, down-home, American hickism? Sure. I'm proud to be a bumptious American who believes that too much government is a bad thing, that the Bill of Rights *is* a better document than anything currently out there, that the rights of the individual trumps the "rights" of any government.
Further, I'll state right out that I tend to get cantankerous when a company goes on record as constantly promising a firmware update that never quite materializes is a 'bad thing' which WILL result in lower product sales - and that in the US (Up until Bush Jr. and Obama) this resulted in the company FAILING, and rightly so. It appears that people in France have a more 'placid' approach to such dismal customer support - and it appears that we're being trained to such in the U.S.
So sue me.
Derek
P.S. I can't believe our elected officials, starting way, way back when, long before I was born, thought it was okay to take 'imperialist' actions outside our borders - and I've been voting AGAINST the bastards every chance I get since I first got the vote in 1976. I'm a hard-core Libertarian and am often stunned at just how low our politicians have sunk these past few decades - including "The One".