from canada, with love.......

[calbert at hslboxmaster.com]

This, from a Canadian newspaper, 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 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!