Comments on: Prophet Glenda

By: Glenda Larke

Glenda Larke — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:48:00 +0000

Hi Random walk writer – you don’t have to apologize…I know how hard it must be for people like yourself. I don’t agree with my Australian PM, either! And I have an American son-in-law who is in the same boat as you are…frustrating, isn’t it?

I am surprised, though, that there is not more of an outcry over the things that are happening that seem to me to be so, well, fundamentally unAmerican.

By: Erin M. Hartshorn

Erin M. Hartshorn — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:17:00 +0000

Speaking as someone in the US -- I didn't vote for Bush either time. I openly decry his policies. I have tried to vote every Senator and Representative who supports his policies out of office.

I do not endorse torture or kidnapping or imprisonment without trial.

Just because the jackass in charge does does not mean that our country as a whole does. Hell, right now only about a third of the country agrees with him. However, while he still has enough backers in Congress, we cannot legally get him out of office before the next election. I'd apologize to the world, but this mess isn't my fault.

By: chocolatetrudi

chocolatetrudi — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:13:00 +0000

When I read your list of the things you never dreamed of... I wonder if I'm a better prophet than you! Or maybe just a cynic.

I suspect the impression we get that the US is always the Good Guy comes from films. They've got one heck of a self-generating propaganda machine there. There's so much history to the contrary, yet we choose to believe the films.

And the other is wishful thinking. We (Australians) don't want people who look a lot like ourselves (and who are bigger than us) to turn out to be Bad Guys.

But then again, when you compare the US to other countries... it could be worse.

By: Glenda Larke

Glenda Larke — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:22:00 +0000

Yo9u know what REALLY scares me, Andrew? That sometimes I seem to understand more than the President of the USA. That terrifies me.

By: Andrew Macrae

Andrew Macrae — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:14:00 +0000

Thanks for this post.

I really dislike the fundamentalism of the arrogance of might. And you know, it's just never enough, and it never ends.

I really dislike the double-speak of the so-called 'war on terror'. War is terror. Torture is torture, no matter how you define it.

I really dislike the way the cynical men in power manipulate mass sentiment with fear. Oops, there goes the freedom we say we're fighting for, right in front of our eyes.

E Remington & Sons made typewriters and sewing machines as well. Such a shame the arms business is so good.