Date: 19 Sep 2001 23:16:00 +0200
From: ASWAD-AT-anarch.free.de (catkawin)
Subject: Re: 1973, not last week



Wes wrote:

> Frankly though, I think most Canadians are being supportive to the point of
> being apologists right now. The Stars and Stripes have always been an
> unsavory sight for me here in Windsor (a border town), but now I can't even
> turn my head without seeing yet another foreign flag. It almost looks like
> we've been invaded. Maybe we have been.
It was the same over here. If it hadn't for our flag halfmast in between  
the blue, red, and white, you'd think the damn town was, say: Hamburg/ 
Texarse. But most of the US flags are no longer seen here.

> I have a feeling that less Canadians support the idea of going to war than
> our prime minister thinks though. Those in my immediate association seem
> pretty horrified that we would go to war to support the Americans (though
> granted they are *not* representative of average Canadians).
Again, same over here. Our politicians are doing somersaults right now  
every time Bush only as much as thinks about hopping. A lot of talk about  
we must support the USA.
Media are publishing polls about the population's support to go to war,  
and keep telling us that something like 58% of us are willing to engage in  
a war. Well, like the catchline of an old joke goes: funny, I keep meeting  
these other 42%. Not only in anarchist circles, but on the streets,  
talking to neighbours, talking to people joining in conversations whom  
you'd never met before.

We're being reassured that our army is so much in dire straits they  
already sent everything and everybody fit for doing missions down to  
Kosovo and Macedonia, so - as they say - all we could do was send down  
paramedic units and kitchens.

Up to now I heard just one remark by a high-ranking politician that  
differed: that was from the president of parliament, but on the other  
hand, he's from the East. Anyways, he said that the German population had  
thoroughly been re-educated and did not enjoy saber-rattling and an  
exaggerated patriotism any longer. I fuckin well hope he's right here.

catkawin





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