Posted on 12/18/2005 9:32:53 AM PST by Actuality
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15464 Something remarkable has been happening to me in the past nineteen days. Wherever I go, no-one launches abuse at me. When I open my mouth to speak, I am received with civility and the occasional ’ Have a good one.’ I am not attacked or intimidated to the point of abject fear and loathing. Where have I been visiting for the past two and a half weeks? And where do I live?
I found many Europeans wanting US to do their job of fihgting the Jihadi cancer, but still so hypocritically shout "America the bully". How did one feel when Germany preaches US about torture, I do not hold anything against THIS generation of Germany, but come on, Germany talks to us about war and torture???
Please stop posting these in Activism
I was in Germany last year and watched a conversation between a young man on the train and some Americans sitting near him. He was very anti-American...not them, not the people, but the policies... so he said.
Anyway, I got a real kick when he asked them if they owned a gun. They all said no. At that point, I joined the conversation and said I owned many guns including semi-auto pistols and rifles. He asked me "Why do you have guns?!?" at which I responded "Because I can, I am an American and it is a right!" He was dumbfounded. How could he respond to that?
He tried saying "What do you need a gun for?" and I responded that I lived about 15 minutes from the nearest police station, and did not want the cops to arrive at my home to find me dead for 10 minutes. Instead, they would find the burglar dead and me cleaning my gun.
Should I post it in "news" only?
Apparently, you have to be a red-faced, rude, swearing, screaming banshee to be accepted by polite Euro society. And they call US tacky!
Actually, this sounds a lot like the way it is in the United States.
I can report that my friends in The Netherlands are now telling me that the general concensus they're detecting lately has switched to something more along the lines of 'Very well, the Americans were probably right'.
It's not just Europe. It's like that in South Korea as well.
Of course, there is the language gap. But the riots/protests against Americans are common enough for any American to get the picture.
"I responded that I lived about 15 minutes from the nearest police station, and did not want the cops to arrive at my home to find me dead for 10 minutes. Instead, they would find the burglar dead and me cleaning my gun."
You probably should have thrown in (for good measure):
"Americans own guns to protect themselves and their families from common criminals and tyrants..you know...people like Hitler."
That might have given him pause.
"I had a conversation with a neighbor a couple of weeks ago about a trip to France he took with his parents and siblings. Apparently, the people in rural France were very nice, pleasant and helpful to them even while knowing that they were Americans. People in Paris were rude, insulting, and blatantly anti-American."
Actually, this sounds a lot like the way it is in the United States.
*It was France's patriotic peasants and farmers, and its laboring classes NOT its military nor its Vichy politicians nor its Parisian Liberal Elites, who stood up to the German invasion, helped Jews to escape, and participated in the French Underground which was really the English Underground operating in France. Even American expatriate Gertrude Stein, (a Jewess) known worldwide for her Parisian SALON, aided the Nazis and accommodated the Vichy regime. I guess that is why Gertrude was never forced to leave France for a concentration camp.
Hmmm. Like nothing ever happened. I'm not one to hold a grudge - but I do remember and there are consequences. I'm much less likely to want to defend and/or support Europe in the future. The damage is done.
Yes, well... You know America would be there in a flash, regardless, if anything happened.
I'm afraid that answers like that only serve to reinforce the misperception that America is a crime-riddled hell hole.
Yes, we probably would. But I have written several letters to my Congressman and Senators urging the movement of our bases out of Old Europe and into 'New' Europe, an American insistence that Euro countries bear more of he costs of NATO, reduced funding of the UN and an insistence that Europe be more accountable for it's own backyard. The Cold war is over ans so should be the free ride - Old Europe now needs to meet its own security needs.
So that the government is afraid of its citizens! A government afraid of its citizens does not go far in taking away their freedoms.
Very intense article. Almost unbelievable.
Their attitudes are a set-up for blaming America for the inevitable results of their own stupidity.
They have allowed their countries to be invaded by islamofascists and, in the very shadow of Hitler, have done nothing to control them. They have also rejected Christianity and any hope of drawing strength from the God of Israel. Now they see their ancient cultures being destroyed, and they blame America and the political land of Israel.
If we pull out of there, which we should have done soon after 9/11, the overthrow of European host cultures by Eurabia will be all our fault. They have become a bunch of lazy-assed welfare dependants. True freedom is something they have never experienced and cannot imagine.
This article demonstrates perfectly why it is, and always will be, necessary for the Jewish people to have a homeland of their own. There is no place on earth where they are truly safe, no nation they can rely on to totally protect them. No, not even ours; there are anti-Semites here in the US, too. They must be able to have a Jewish state where they can use their own weapons to defend themselves from the hate-crazed millions who would destroy them.
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