January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

freedom left to allow them to hate and be anti everything. |
|2/7/05 08:57:13 AM|Angelo|Washington, DC||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|Massimo: I
think some Italians, other Europeans and citizens of other countries for that
matter, resent the U.S. for a lot of reasons---some fair and other reasons that
are unfair. Much of it is simple misunderstanding. If only people could talk
to people (like we do here) and keep governments out of it, the world would be
better off. Like someone else said on a previous post, most people are too busy
working, raising their family, enjoying life, to worry about hating. Americans
are generally good people, and so are Europeans and others around the globe. I
think that most Muslims are the same as I described above---raising families,
working hard to have the good things in life and would be happy to live
peacefully. The problem is the small minority of lunatics who do nothing but
plan ways to destroy anyone who don't share their beliefs. These people are
jealous of the lifestyle of Westerners and have never built anything to be proud
of----all they can do is destroy what others have worked hard to build and they
have no ability to create anything positive. |
|2/7/05 12:46:46 PM|Massimo|Roma||.com||||10|Angelo-The Italian
comunists not only resent (is it a new word ?) USA, they also resent Italy
itself ! When the holy Italian soccer team lose they often write on the walls
things like " Cheers, Italy has lost " ( but often in Italian, not in English).
During the 70's, they wanted Italy to be a Brieznev's colony. They also sang in
the streets " 1, 10, 100 Nassirjya". They just resent ( not a new word anymore)
anything is good and love anything is bad. I know that Capitalism ain't perfect,
but I do think is still way better than comunism or Benito. |
|2/7/05 02:54:05 PM|Noam|same||same||||10|AngeloAmericans are tolerant
of everybody. Muhammad Ali is the prime example. The most revered boxer in
history, and probably the most famous and loved athlete of all time. And Ali is
a Muslim to boot ! If we were intolerant to Islam, how did Ali attain that
exulted position. Why would we love him so if we have no tolerance ?As a
primarily christian nation it is not unexpected that the Pope is held in high
esteem by us. But then again so is the leader of the Buddhist world from Taiwan.
(His name has slipped my mind......happy guy always smiling, fat, bald, wears
colorful dresses). We also loved Ghandi who was a Hindu.It's only when
they become intolerant of us, or anti-social, or criminal, or a terrorist, that
we become intolerant of them.All the people that hate America turn our
own decency against us. They use our decency as a weapon. We have stuff ups
sometimes, like Abu Grade prison etc (yes, the spelling is wrong), but our
decency always takes over and we have inquiries and court hearings and punish
the guilty. And we make laws so it doesn't happen again.Those who hate
us don't do that. |
|2/7/05 05:21:06 PM|Mr. America|Somewhere in America||U.S.A.com||||10|I like
America.|
|2/7/05 05:24:11 PM|Angelo|Washington, DC||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|Noam: I'll
add something: Regarding Abu Grabe (spelling?) prison---I don't condone what
happened there, but I'll make a couple points:1) Terrorists are not
protected by the rules governing prisoners of war. These terrorists, or
suspected terrorists, were not representing a nation, and no nation was standing
behind them, and for good reason. Thus, they weren't P.O.W.s.2) I've seen
the pictures of the "atrocities" there, and if you ask me, I saw worse
occurances when some friends tried to join a fraternity. Granted, the pledges
volunteered for the humiliating acts of being put on dog leashes and other
nonsense. But I'm being serious when I tell you that sorority sisters did more
humiliating things to the frat pledges and these guys were subjected to more
physical abuse as well, then the terrorists in those photos. That's not an
excuse for allowing this type of thing in the future---it's just an observation
that maybe videotaping someone's head being cut off and showing it on the
internet is a little more repulsive than being put on a dog leash and having a