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RE: Something to think about. was What I saw yesterday




An inspiring broadcast, here is the original version as broadcast in 1973:
http://www.rcc.ryerson.ca/ccf/news/unique/am_text.html

Lisa
Vancouver, BC

87 2.0L 16V Scirocco
92 G60 Syncro Passat Wagon



From: "Scott F. Williams" <sfwilliams@home.com>
To: "Randy Martinez" <howlinmonkey16v@yahoo.com>
CC: "Scirocco List" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Subject: RE: Something to think about. was What I saw yesterday
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 15:43:41 -0400

People!... This story was written over 30 years ago! Gordon Sinclair has
been dead since 1984. While it may feel great to rally around this
editorial, at this point it has simply become propaganda. -not to mention
the fact that I've read this same thing at least 25 times already.
--
Scott F. Williams
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 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org
 > [mailto:owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Randy Martinez
 > Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 3:38 PM
 > To: Marshall Ruskin; Dave Ewing
 > Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
 > Subject: Something to think about. was What I saw yesterday
 >
 >
 > This is from a Canadian newspaper and IS worth sharing.......
 > 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 broadcast.
 > "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!
 > This is one of the best editorials that I have ever read regarding the
 > United States. It is nice that one man realizes it. I only wish that the
 > rest of the world would realize it. We are always blamed for everything,
 > and
 > never even get a thank you for the things we do.
 > I would hope that each of you would send this to as many people as you 
can
 >
 > and emphasize that they should send it to as many of their friends until
 > this letter is sent to every person on the web. I am just a single
 > American
 > that has read this, I SURE HOPE THAT A LOT MORE READ IT SOON.
 > Stand proud, America
 >
 >
 > =====
 > Randy
 > 87 2.0l 16v Rice Eater
 > 89 8v Gti (sold for Rocco)
 > Teaneck, NJ
 >
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