Re: OT: American flyers bomb their allies AGAIN !

Michael A. Terrell wrote:
David Brown wrote:
Michael A. Terrell wrote:
David Brown wrote:
Contrary to what some of the others in this thread think, I *have* read
many of Eeyore's posts (it's been a while since I've subscribed to this
group - something to do with the time it wastes :-). But I cannot see,
by any stretch of the imagination, how he is contributing to the
downfall of the USA - he is not exactly inciting others to hatred or
violence (which would be a good reason to curb free speech), except
against himself (which is stupid, but legal). The people making threats
or waving metaphorical guns are Americans provoked by Eeyore's posts,
not Eeyore.

Somewhere in the lines between "all Americans are stupid" and "Eeyore is
stupid", there lies the potential for interesting discussion and the
exchange of different points of view across the Atlantic (and different
viewpoints within the USA and within Europe), if only people would curb
the knee-jerk flames.

Then you think that his call for the US to be nuked out of existence
is PRO AMERICA?

First, I don't remember having read his making such a call (though I
could easily have missed it) - although I remember reading several posts
from Americans calling for the nuking of other places.


It was on news:alt.binaries.schematics.electronic so that it isn't
archived anywhere. He wanted "The world powers to work together to turn
America into a *** of glass from the Canadian border to the Mexican
border".


Since you claims he said that, and Eeyore claims he did not, and I have no way of checking the sources, I can't tell one way or the other.


Secondly, I'm not denying that he is anti-American - he made that point
clear enough himself for anyone who could not read it.

Thirdly, someone who is not anti-American (if I *had* thought he was not
anti-American) is not necessarily pro-American. There is no "if you are
not with us, you're against us" - it's perfectly possible to be neutral
with everyone until you know them well enough to form a judgement.

And finally, even if he had called for the US to be nuked, I cannot
imagine how anyone could take such a posting as "contributing to the
downfall of the USA".


See above. How is turning the US into a *** of glass NOT
"Contributing to the downfall of the USA".


"Turning the US into a *** of glass" would certainly classify as "contributing to the downfall of the USA". But *writing* that he *wanted* that to happen, does not. It barely classifies as "advocating contributing to the downfall of the USA", unless this newsgroup is followed by the leaders of other nuclear powers.

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