Subject: RE: America & Humanity EVIL: Canada Cold

Subject: America Evil/Canada Cold

Date: Fri, 24 Feb 95 07:29:25 CST
From: "jim blair" <jeblair@facstaff.wisc.edu>
To: c.blair@mail.dpc.umassp.edu
Cc:
BCc:
Subject: RE: Anerica Evil/Canada Cold

Here is an interesting exchange I found on the net:> ----------------------------------------------
>
> Bob Allisat (ab330@torfree.net) wrote:
>
> :              A m e r i c a     E v i l
>
>
> :         There is one thing America has never
> :         admited to itself... that it was dead
> :         wrong in VietNam. What these people did,
> :         aided and abeded by their allies, was
> :         enter a nation with overwhelming force,
> :         devastate a culture, suffer one of the
> :         most humiliating and just defeats in
> :         human history, escape with nothing to
> :         show for all that death and violence,
> :         pretend it is over and somehow honourable...
>
> :         America lives in the shadow cast by the
> :         VietNam occupation and war of genocide.
> :         The mock-symbolic wall, millions of scarred
> :         and twisted vets, a whole mythology organized
> :         around "Nam" all fail to deal with the core
> :         evil Americans unleashed there. And continues
> :         to unleash world wide every time it's domestic
> :         interests are threatened in the least.
>
> :         America wrong. America evil. America Unjust.
> :         America VietNam. America Grenada. America Panama.
> :         America Kuwait. America New World Order. America.
>
>
> :                             Allisat
>
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The best reply (ot of many) was this "counter poem"


      Canada slow. Canada cold. Canada boring. Canada
      cheap football. Canada pissy beer. Canada no army.
      Canada national Freudian kid-brother complex. Canada.

from Timothy J. McCarthy
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 (jeblair@facstaff.wisc.edu) University of Wisconsin, Madison USA

Date: Wed, 1 Mar 95 09:59:25 CST  
From: "jim blair" <jeblair@facstaff.wisc.edu>
To: alt-politics-greens@cs.utexas.edu,ab330@torfree.net,tm2497@student.law.duke.edu
Cc: 
BCc: 
Subject: Humanity Evil (in the poetic style of Bob Allisat)


Humanity Evil (in the poetic style of Bob Allisat)


              Humanity Evil

There is one thing humanity has never
admitted to itself... that it was dead
wrong in its destruction of the Neanderthal.
They were a gentile race, like us in many
respects. With our superior weapons and hunting
skills we drove them to extinction. And we pretend
that it was somehow honourable. Psychologists
know the two things people need most is dwelling
on the past, and GUILT. They are critical to the
financial stability of the mental health provider community.
Think how bad it would be if people took pride in themselves
and their country and just got on with their lives.

Humanity lives in the shadow cast by that genocide.
Humanism is used today as a term of pride and
Humanism is taught in schools, instead of being recognized
as a narrow kind of speciesism like racism and sexism.
People who view themselves as sensitive to injustice
humiliate the memory of those we destroyed by referring
to politicians and others they dislike as "neanderthal"

Humanity wrong. Humanity evil. Humanity Unjust
Humanity VietNam. Humanity Hiroshima. Humanity Auschwitz.
Humanity Hitler. Humanity Genghis Kahn. Humanity.


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