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["Eric Hall" <erichall AT lycos.com>]

For the past few weeks I've been watching this forum with some kind of ... 
well ... laughter, I suppose, at the quaint postings from the American press, 
who obviously have some kind of "hang-up" with Moslems. 

I suppose that since Americans can no longer persecute and racialise blacks, 
and Jews were always a no-no, then there has to be someone to hate. Why not 
Moslems? After all, they are easy to distinguish - they have brown skins and 
wear towels on their head. The average "double-wider" of Tennessee and 
Mississippi can quickly pick them out without the aid of a drawing. And of 
course, if you don't have an enemy you need to make one so there's a need for 
arms and ammunition, and weapons, and Army contracts. Does the "Tuscon Ring" 
mean anything to you?

But I suspect that the American newspapers are in for a shock, and the 
average American public even more so.

While the seige in Beslan was going on, the Americans were killing three 
innocent children in a rocket attack on a civilian house in Iraq. How many 
column inches did that get in the American press?

Since the struggle for Chetchen independence over the last ten years, between 
17,000 and 24,000 children (depending on where you draw the definition of a 
child) have been killed by the Russians. How many column inches did that get 
in the American newspapers?

You talk about the Chechens fighting the Russians in the last war and so many 
thousands deported. Yet Finland not only fought against the Russians in the 
last war, they were actually allies of the Germans as they too fought for 
independence. "Deport them!" I hear you cry. "Er .... hang on a minute - the 
Finns are white, and Christians too. Hold your foot up there a minute, son 
... ". 

But I wonder if you've ever given any thought as to the fact that maybe it's 
BECAUSE of the treament meted out to the Chechens in the last war that has 
made them fight so desperately for their freedom? Whan your back's to the 
wall and you've nowhere else to go, you'll be amazed at how much power you 
can find withiin yourself to resist.

You Americans are in no position to criticise the Chechens for targeting 
children when you are targeting them yourselves.

But the biggest shock to the American system will come when the Americans 
realise that they are alone in this crusade (yes, even the bushbaby knows 
what a crusade is) against the Moslems. And the Americans are only 5% of the 
world's population. The rest of the world hates the Americans just as much as 
the Moslems do, and if it ever really does come to "you're either with us or 
against us", then you can count on people like me and the countless other 
Canadians, Europeans, Asiastics, and South Americans to be in the trenches 
with the Moslems to resist the Fascist invader. And we outnumber you by 19 to 
1, remember.

Now, if you want to talk about homesteading on a "homesteading" list, then 
we're with you all the way and we can all have some happy clappy conversation 
and discussion about rearing poultry and the best way to sharpen our 
implements. No problems there at all.

But if you want to use a "homesteading" list (with its contributors from all 
over the world) as a personal platform to expound pro-American fascism and 
racism, then you should know better. And you shouldn't be at all surprised if 
you get subjected to some fierce criticism.



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pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works 
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