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Posted By	Discussion Topic: Don't blame Canada
NY_Cracker	posted on 09-12-2001 @ 5:38 PM
Hanger-On Registered: Jul. 01	America: The Good Neighbor. Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television Commentator. What follows is the full text of his trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional Record: "This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth. Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of these countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States. When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it. When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped. The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, warmongering Americans. I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplane. Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the International lines except Russia fly American Planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy, and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy, and you find men on the moon - not once, but several times - and safely home again. You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at. Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here. When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke. I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake. Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of those." Stand proud, America! Wear it proudly!! "What we got here is... failure to communicate... " This message was edited by NY_Cracker on 9-12-01 @ 5:42 PM
WhackBagKid TALK TO ME, GOMEZ. HE WHO IS #1.	posted on 09-12-2001 @ 5:48 PM
O&A Board Regular Registered: Sep. 00	i believe this exact passage was already posted in a similar thread, but nonetheless it is a great piece of writing
fbdlingfrg wow, my name looks odd without 5 lines of type below it in bold and purple and red G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. Red Wings Captain Cecil JBA~Remove the Pick & Click NOW!	posted on 09-12-2001 @ 5:51 PM
O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00	stuff like this is good to be posted in two forums.its got a great message, a very touhing story.somebody might not see the OT thread, but catch this one.its very touching, belonging in both major forums
NY_Cracker	posted on 09-12-2001 @ 5:51 PM
Hanger-On Registered: Jul. 01	If it is, I'm sorry (it's hard to keep up). I just received it from my worried mother in Alabama (I'm in N.Y.) "What we got here is... failure to communicate... "
RandomNY	posted on 09-12-2001 @ 5:59 PM
Psychopath Registered: Sep. 00	I read that on HARDOCP.com and it got to me. It's completly correct. Very well written and surprising to see something like that in a paper.
TheGooch Mullet Master Yo Gooch, Moron here... how's that for some fucked up shit... Fez is giving you status... Karma sucks, huh?	posted on 09-12-2001 @ 6:29 PM
O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00	Don't sweat it...this kind of stuff belongs in both forums. Real eloquent and goddamn long time coming...everybody always takes for granted what we do as a country. God forbid, but if we weren't there, this wolrd would not be a better place. We're no saints, but were certainly are a mensch. =)
NYR2119935	posted on 09-12-2001 @ 6:44 PM
Psychopath Registered: May. 00	God Bless Canada! CART Taco Bell Ice Hockey MetallicA
Spork	posted on 09-12-2001 @ 7:36 PM
Psychopath Registered: Jun. 01	Too bad their fucking immigration policy is so lax! You can do a little bit of the "blame Canada" bit if only because a couple of those rag head bastards got into Maine through the Canadian border. The thing is Canada has AWFUL immigration policies - AWFUL. You can sit there and have a pending refugee hearing and just live amongst the people. It's insane. INS is much more on the ball than Immigration Canada. That being said, as always the true people to blame are these demented fucks who would do this, all in the name of Allah. "Look how hot they're getting. And that's an old picture," Anthony says.

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