[alicebot-aiethics] Re:

[Everette Allen]

--- Bill Easley <billeasley@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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!"
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  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.
> 
>   Bill Gelberg
> 
> 
> 
> 


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