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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (76733)2/23/2003 11:42:39 AM
From: Karen Lawrence  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
You seem to be painting all peacemarchers with one brush dipped in black, when there's a rainbow of reasons for people's beliefs Here's a perspective from a foreigner who joined in last week's march in SF...(from the craigslist blog): Peace March (An alien's perspective)

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Reply to: anon-8742136@craigslist.org
Date: Mon Feb 17 10:22:25 2003

I'm not an American. I come from a country exactly halfway across the world. I've been here for over six years. Lived in four cities, worked in three companies, been in one relationship.

Yet, I never really understood America until today. Today made me happy. Today I felt like a kid who finally figures out that swimming is not about fighting the water but being comfortable in it.

Allow me to explain: There are very few places in the world where citizens have the right to speak against their government, and do; where so many people from so many walks of life look beyond the rhetoric propagated by their leaders; where citizens think that they, by themselves, can make a difference; where protestors carry some really funny posters, and their babies too.

America is one such place. (If not the only one.)

Some of my friends think America is great because it can give any country in the world a major "whoop ass." I think America is great because Americans know they have the right to give their government one.

As I said before, I'm an 'alien,' but today I was not a spectator, I was a participant. Thank you.

Peace

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