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Every so often I venture into news forums where average Americans gather to chat and dicuss current events. When I feel physically up to it I jump in and usually spark a series of heated, offensive replies. This page will document the environmental and social ignorance I encounter in these forums.

December 2001

This debate begin over the question of whether the United States should use small nuclear weapons in Afghanistan. The US is currently debating this issue. 99% of all respondees replied emphatically with an absolute YES to that question with no regard to the long-term environmental effects. This outstanding American scholar whose screen name will be referred to as"Jackass" listed below is arguing with me over this issue. I first responded to his comment below:

Jackass says: "These are the same people that would cry about the price of gas but don't want us to be independent of those savages in the middle east! OH Let's worry about some polar bear in Alaska while the elderly in the northeast have to choose between heat and eating! Thank God for Mr. Bush!"

My reply: "A word about pollution: Without a univerisally healthy earth ecosystem, you and the polar bear will cease to exist. If you want to spent years and billions hunting down goat herders thats great, how about just abandoning our efforts to globalize that region and/or stop supporting Isreal. Problem solved.

About the price of oil and elderly in the NE worried about heating and eating...If this were an intellgent and practical country we would divest our interests in oil all together. Why not invest in the 3 most abundant, free and clean energy sources available: solar, wind and hydro. Then you dont have to worry about reliance on the middle east or pollution."

Jackass says: you are a funny person. I do have to agree with you on one point. we do need to stop depending on the oil.We can not allow these vermons to kill our people. If it's nukes, so be it!

Obvisoulsy willie does not understand what solar, wind and hydro means. It means we can stop depending on the middle east. I am a funny person? Wheres the comedy here?

Also, interesting point here, he says "These are the same people that would cry about the price of gas but don't want us to be independent of those savages in the middle east! " He refers to the middle easterners as "savages". History repeating itself here.... just as the white man forced his way of life on the "savages" of the 19th century (American Indians), he is doing so in the middle east today. America views the middle east as nothing more than a potential market. Corporations see a growth opportunity there in many sectors, oil being the biggest. Those people do not like western culture or our support for the only none Islamic country in the region, Isreal....thus 9-11. These "savages" are showing their resistence via violence just as the American Indians did and before long they will be eliminated and "acculturated" also just as the American Indians were. America is covertly imperialistic. America conquers via economics, we promise developing nations monitary support to establish western style governments and economic infrastructures. In return, we get another trade partner and another opportunity to exploit, rape, and enslave another part of the world.

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	The American Alternative \| home recent disappointments \| Society \| Environment \| religion \| Fuel \| Pop Culture \| Editorials \| Ignorance-American Style \| In the News Ignorance-American Style Every so often I venture into news forums where average Americans gather to chat and dicuss current events. When I feel physically up to it I jump in and usually spark a series of heated, offensive replies. This page will document the environmental and social ignorance I encounter in these forums. December 2001 This debate begin over the question of whether the United States should use small nuclear weapons in Afghanistan. The US is currently debating this issue. 99% of all respondees replied emphatically with an absolute YES to that question with no regard to the long-term environmental effects. This outstanding American scholar whose screen name will be referred to as"Jackass" listed below is arguing with me over this issue. I first responded to his comment below: Jackass says: "These are the same people that would cry about the price of gas but don't want us to be independent of those savages in the middle east! OH Let's worry about some polar bear in Alaska while the elderly in the northeast have to choose between heat and eating! Thank God for Mr. Bush!" My reply: "A word about pollution: Without a univerisally healthy earth ecosystem, you and the polar bear will cease to exist. If you want to spent years and billions hunting down goat herders thats great, how about just abandoning our efforts to globalize that region and/or stop supporting Isreal. Problem solved. About the price of oil and elderly in the NE worried about heating and eating...If this were an intellgent and practical country we would divest our interests in oil all together. Why not invest in the 3 most abundant, free and clean energy sources available: solar, wind and hydro. Then you dont have to worry about reliance on the middle east or pollution." Jackass says: you are a funny person. I do have to agree with you on one point. we do need to stop depending on the oil.We can not allow these vermons to kill our people. If it's nukes, so be it! Obvisoulsy willie does not understand what solar, wind and hydro means. It means we can stop depending on the middle east. I am a funny person? Wheres the comedy here? Also, interesting point here, he says "These are the same people that would cry about the price of gas but don't want us to be independent of those savages in the middle east! " He refers to the middle easterners as "savages". History repeating itself here.... just as the white man forced his way of life on the "savages" of the 19th century (American Indians), he is doing so in the middle east today. America views the middle east as nothing more than a potential market. Corporations see a growth opportunity there in many sectors, oil being the biggest. Those people do not like western culture or our support for the only none Islamic country in the region, Isreal....thus 9-11. These "savages" are showing their resistence via violence just as the American Indians did and before long they will be eliminated and "acculturated" also just as the American Indians were. America is covertly imperialistic. America conquers via economics, we promise developing nations monitary support to establish western style governments and economic infrastructures. In return, we get another trade partner and another opportunity to exploit, rape, and enslave another part of the world. back