Mary, this thread wasn't started to bash America. You apparently fear it to be. What we gotta realize is that it's ok to throw off the chains and realize we are in a unique spot as Americans to do great good.
Fuck China.
Why does America always have to intervene? Because we're the most powerful, which makes us responsible to safeguard the helpless.
Why do people get pissed when America acts or doesn't act? They get pissed when America doesn't do the right thing....as the most powerful country in the world, it is our RESPONSIBILITY, by the mere existence of our power. We have the Ring....now what are we gonna do w/ it?? Nothing?? Are we just gonna hold onto it & use it to secure our oil? That's what the people get pissed at: our inaction at neutralizing the evil of our Ring.
But no, we spend our resources(our Ring) securing $ in the form of oil....in my opinion, completely hypocritical of what Bush claimed to stand for: Democracy & Freedom from "Terror" and "Evil doers".
Fuck the Iraq "war". Stopping mass killing of monks, some of the finest humans on the planet, should come over kissing the ass of China, (and the tyranny of Iraq for oil) who mind you is "buying" our debt. Fuck China. I don't buy things made in China anymore. If everyone would do the same, China would fall to its knees and quit playing tyrant w/ all the "inferior" countries around it. But no, we Americans are too concerned w/ the easiest, softest way for our own lazy asses: Wal-Mart. and about Keeping up with the Jones's.----> Mainly b/c, as a mass, we are ignorant of what's really going on. We're too hypnotized by the media/TV.
Fuck China.
And as for those getting pissed off about "America bashing:" We're not bashing America, we're bashing the way America is behaving. I love America... the greatest fucking country in the World. No one is gonna violently take us w/o taking themselves our(nuclear armaggedon) Which is why it is our responsibility to use the Power we have to do good. Or, just like the Ring of Power....we must use our willpower to neutralize the evil. This country was founded on Freedom...on people saying "Fuck you! We're gonna do this." Don't be afraid to throw off chains.
Inaction is bad karma for America. Inaction is an action. May God help us as a country of individuals ACT!!!!!!!!!!
It starts w/ you, in your community, w/ the people around you.
"If you don't know what I mean,
Won't you stand up and scream?
'Cause there's things goin' on that you don't know.
Too many lives they spend accross the ocean,
Too much money they spend upon the moon,
Well until they make things right
Lots of people gonna be up tight,
We better make some changes
And do it soon!!!"
How about places you haven't heard of in the news where there is civil unrest? Are you telling me that we help all these countries that are having problems? I'm not saying we shouldn't help them. Who gets priority then, the country that gets a lot of media attention or a country so small you don't even know where it is?
Good point. Nonetheless, we should act more than we do. Doing something is better than nothing. With first, as individuals, to learn to sift through media.