The intellectual origins of America-Bashing

[Ghetta Life]

>From: "Otto" <ottosell at yahoo.de>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Terrance" <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
> >
> > Otto, the Students didn't think the symbol an empty one. That's your 
>opinion.
>
>Well, it didn't help them, didn't brought the US-Gov to intervene. It's 
>been an empty symbol.

You can't possibly have wanted the US to "intervene" (if by that you mean 
militarily) in that instance, can you?  That would have been the start of 
WW3.  And your claim that the symbol was "empty" is belied by the response 
it generated from the Communist government.  It was a very potent and 
greatly feared symbol.

> > You disagree with what the students did.  They chose Lady Liberty as 
>their symbol. You claim  that the students chose the Statue of Liberty 
>because of  amnesia and ignorance.
>
>The Students were in error about it. They have all my sympathy but they've 
>been in error.

That is a very arrogant statement.  Many gave their lives in an attempt to 
gain democracy.  They might have failed, but the choice of symbol was a 
message heard and seen round the world.  They were as clear as could be.  
The fact that injustice still existed in the "free" world does not diminish 
the validity of their desires and hopes, nor their courage.

Let's ask a question.  If you were one of them, what would your choice have 
been, either in symbol or action?

Ghetta

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