From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Sun Jul 14 2002 - 23:54:39 MDT
Samantha Atkins <samantha@objectent.com>, Sun Jul 14 19:53:59 2002
> those who are interested and who are unafraid to question what
> the US is up to might want to read
>
> http://www.observer.co.uk/waronterrorism/story/0,1373,754973,00.html
>
> Some will accuse me of being "anti-American" for posting such
> things or claim it has nothing to do with our quick dash to
> Singularity and hence shouldn't be here. But I believe we
> become "anti-American" and fail the intelligence test that leads
> us to Singularity when we stop questioning and thinking outside
> our own current opinions and assume that the world is irrelevant
> as the Singularity is at hand.
It's ramping up for war against Iraq, is it not? I only need to walk
one mile down the road to the large US base here to know (some
people I know who live on the base told me about their preparations.
There are ~200,000 people in Heidelberg and Mannheim associated with
the U.S. Army.) My colleagues tell me that the US ramp-up for war with
Iraq is shown on German TV. I didn't think that it was a secret.
By the way, every person (non-American and American) I've met here and
on my recent travels are against US govt's plans to attack Iraq (from
what I know, governments here are against it too). For what it's worth.
What the US government's reasons are.. we can speculate. What
politicians/governments say and do are often two different things;
these days, much more than usual, with the U.S government acting as a
strong driver at that wheel.
I don't usually care for the Guardian's reporting- it's often not
objective and they tend to be sensationalist, like a tabloid. But
this was right on:
(begin quote)
I was in the US last week and glimpsed that other America, the one
rarely seen among the media and Hollywood stereotypes, and what was
clear was that it was stirring again. The other day, in an open letter
to their compatriots and the world, almost 100 of America's most
distinguished names in art, literature and education wrote this:
'Let it not be said that people in the United States did nothing when
their government declared a war without limit and instituted stark new
measures of repression. We believe that questioning, criticism and
dissent must be valued and protected. Such rights are always contested
and must be fought for. We, too, watched with shock the horrific events
of September 11. But the mourning had barely begun when our leaders
launched a spirit of revenge. The government now openly prepares to
wage war on Iraq - a country that has no connection with September 11.
'We say this to the world. Too many times in history people have waited
until it was too late to resist. We draw on the inspiration of those
who fought slavery and all those other great causes of freedom that
began with dissent. We call on all like-minded people around the world
to join us.'
(end quote)
Amara
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