The Words of One Good Canadian
Good reading, from a Toronto newspaper's editorial page!
Concerning the U.S.A. getting to our feet and kicking ass after 9/11 and the bleeding heart world crying about it...
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 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 the franc 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 distant cities are hit by earthquakes, 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 Tristar, or the Douglas 10? 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 American 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 5,000 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.
end
A note from Kevin:
Society is forgetful, even within the borders of the United States. Even in the U.S.A., many have already forgotten the shock and pain of the unprovoked attack and the ensuing carnage of that day. Even here, many have forgotten the resolve that is required and that the whole of our society initially swore to. Even here, the lesser characters that still call themselves Americans and are legally allowed to do so; they realize they never undestood what a long haul is and what the price of that haul is. These people need not bother their cowardly little ignorant hearts about it. They are not paying the price, even if they claim that they suffer in our wars because they have family in the military fighting, dying, doing their duty and doing what is right and just. It is our soldiers overseas and at home that are paying that price, but the price would be much greater if people ignore the moral drive to do what is right and just and they succumb to the cowardly isolation that only erodes, emaciates and destroys the soul and leaves it numb to Life and says to the world, "It is ok for you terrorists of the world to come over here and kill us, please do it again, you see that there will be no price for you to pay."
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