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As a "foreigner", I grew up with the idea of "Americanism" as moon landings, democracy, freedom of speech, tolerance. Star Trek and Thunderbirds.

Being reported to the government for expressing the wrong political opinions was something that happened in tin-pot south American dictatorships or communist eastern Europe.

Probably did, then. Amazing to me that he'd care that much to waste everyone else's time over it. Oh, well. Paranoia (or spitefulness) is alive and well in the world, I guess.

Jon

You've been duped...

No, it really used to be true, until the unionists/socialists turned the schools into propaganda mills.

Thanks, Rich

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Only someone posting from GOOGLE GROUPS could fail to know the answer.

This is USENET *NOT* GOOGLE.

Go suck your own c*ck.

Graham

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It was from Google ( surprise ? ).

Graham

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He seems to be too busy with the EMC Journal et al.

Graham

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If you haven't seen the difference, you'll never know.

I guess you're a dumb, ignorant 'mercun who's happy being that way.

Graham

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And kiddie content from googlers, most of whom seem never to have received any education in any topic relevant to the group.

Graham

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Correction. Except Star Trek and Thunderbirds.

I would suggest watching the entire series "Farscape".

It has some serious political, and social morality plays in it.

It was really good. I cannot believe that folks did not get it syndicated (maybe they did).

Anyway, it is a really good twist on what everyone expects from a sci fi show.

Instead of spending many episodes talking about a warp drive, etc.

It was a "living ship" (biomechanoid), and the sci fi was about people (characters), not the damned ship or the latest ray gun or shield.

In fact I'm not, as Jim ought to know. As far as I can see, Jim's logic is that because I am critical of some aspects of US society, I believe that the US isn't perfect. Since Jim was taught at primary school that the the US is perfect - and anybody who denied this was a malicious liar - my realistic comments are seen by him as some kind of anti-American propaganda. Most people learn to recognise and reject the lies that they were told as children, but Jim does seem to fail that particular test of maturity

Ex-presidents are the only Americans that I know of who get unemployment benfits for life, and Obama already has a whole staff of experts to help him communicate his attitudes and philosophy to the US public - I think Jim is just as far out of touch with reality as ever.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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The ruling class in the USA has been scared silly of socialists and trade unions for more than 100 years; US schools have been parroting their anti-socilaist and anti-trade-union propaganda for at least that long.

Your complaint is that they have become less vociferous about it in recent years - you want them to keep making the kind of fatuous and incredible claims that they made when you were a kid, but modern kids are little better informed than you were as a kid, and tend to disbelieve the exaggerated rubbish that you were spoon-fed.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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Old news, that going on at least 50 years ago.

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If you had read and comprehended my post, it would be obvious to you that I _have_ seen the difference. I used to be all over usenet 15+ years ago...did they have google reader back then? I may be ignorant, but I'm clearly not happy being that way, why else would I have asked for people's opinions on the matter? It should be clear to you who is really being dumb here. Now get back to your trolling you mental midget. Maybe there are some other two week old posts you can respond to with your amazing wit.

There's some irony here for you.

Actor/Comedian Harry Shearer (Spinal Tap, The Simpsons) has a weekly radio program, "Le Show", with comedy and political commentary. One occasional segment is "Tales of Airport Security", where he tells the stories that he gets from the press and that listeners send in.

A couple of weeks ago, he retold a story sent in by a listener about the extra effort they had to go to get their boarding passes, including how the automated kiosk wouldn't work for her husband but worked fine for her ticket, and how they had to wait in line and get a human being to deal with the problem of the missing boarding pass. After the ticket agent did all sorts of stuff on his terminal, and a trip to the back room with the problem passenger's ID, he admitted that the man had a common name that was on the "Do Not Fly" list and it took some effort to determine if he was the real person on the threat list, or just someone with the same name. The man's name was Jim Thompson.

Mark Zenier snipped-for-privacy@eskimo.com Googleproofaddress(account:mzenier provider:eskimo domain:com)

Well, now that the Socialists are in charge, it's the right-wingers who are listed as dangerous terrorists. >:->

Cheers! Rich

I thought that Timothy McVeigh had already managed that, a couple of administration changes ago.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen