Author: Bob
Date: 06-02-04 19:58
Few thoughts:
On the last message - fictional commentaries do make a difference, and one of the concerns of SF must be to represent reality because sometimes it is impossible to make people listen to facts. When these types of anti-terror anti-whatever laws come out, they are often compared w/ Big Brother. It makes a difference.
From the outside looking in - I'm writing from Australia, one of the 'Coalition of the Willing' - Bush is scaring the hell out of people. We don't care about your constitutional streamlining, except in that it may be used to et Bush re-elected, but we do care that Bush took a big, mighty dump on the UN and the Arab world and therefore set back any actual possibility of defeating international terrorism back fifty years.
The reason FFF is a Cummunist is because Communists and Right Wing Conservative Americans are really the same - the empire never ended. That's the point, its the continuation of the East and West Roman Empires.
That's what the guy who got stuck into this thread doesn't understand. The USSR was never 'pinko' communist. It was Stalinist Communist. Why do you think George Orwell wrote 1984 when he fought for the socialists in the Spanish civil war - because Stalinism is about as far from Marx and Engels as you can get - and what Bush is doing is closer.
The problem with Bush is that he thinks his opinion is the only one. He refuses to accept that anyone is allowed to have any view-points whatsoever. I don't want to be racist against the US, I know that most of you probably aren't like this, but from the outside it looks like the whole country is like that. Of course, that's probably just the loudest voices being heard, but the whole 'France disagreed with us therefore we're going to burn one of our longest lasting friendships.' I mean, Freedom Fries? WTF?
That's the simularity between FFF and Bush, they both believe that their will should be supreme law across the world without dissent. That's also why US foreign policy is going to stuff all of you guys up as well. Bush acts like a bully on the world stage - not just to his enemies but also his friends. Political cartoons over here draw our Prime Minister as Bush's pet.
Eventually, people gang up on those who act like bullies. Whether we should or should not have gone into Iraq is one thing. The fact is that Bush did it in a way that almost deliberately pissed off a lot of people, when it could have been done another way.
Once again - no offence meant to Americans, only to George Bush.
Cheers.
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