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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (301576)	4/18/2009 3:34:36 AM
From: Neeka	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) of 793755

This is not a game and it is not funny. It is shocking to witness how many Americans revel in the belittlement of their fellow countrymen. Humans continue to denigrate and belittled and segregate and pigeon hole those with which they disagree. We work at ensuring that our detractors appear to be insignificant fools....not to be taken seriously........and we laugh and are incapable of understanding that what we should be doing is listening and learning. It seems to me we have forever and ever accepted this as normal. Are we not driven by our leaders to understand other peoples and accept that in their world they have contrary beliefs that we should all want to understand? Hasn't that been the calling of progressive Americans? Yes! Yet this is not possible with our own neighbors. Why should we believe this is possible with people from other cultures when after all of these hundreds of years respect, cooperation and understanding is impossible here? Some narrow minds foster these primitive notions about who our neighbors are.........witches and devils........and make them out to be the enemy. This behavior..........attacks on respectable individuals. Individuals who wish to have a word about their government and what they perceive as best for themselves, their families and their country.....is insulting. Anderson Cooper and his distasteful comments about the people who attended the Tea Parties Wednesday, or the destructive comments about Veterans included in the latest HS document shows a distinct lack of understanding and civility on some people's part. A huge shortcoming which lays open the lie of modern/progressive America. Until we can all acknowledge those simple truths and go forward we will continue to be deluged with the "politics of personal destruction." This is primitive thinking and this mindset must not be taken seriously because it is childish and unproductive. These tactics only detract from the core issues and ignore the heart of the problem. Until THAT can be over come there will be no improvement in the human condition anywhere. I have this gut feeling that history is being ignored by a large segment of the population. I have this gut feeling that most people have no interest in understanding, and that if more people don't pay more attention, history will repeat itself. And you are absolutely right.........this mocking by these elitist sycophants is dishonesty in its most horrible form. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist; And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist; And then they came for the Jews, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew; And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up."

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