To: Snowshoe who wrote (12322 ) 12/1/2001 10:57:51 PM From: marcos Read Replies (2) | Respond to 'globalization ' - see, right here there appears the yawning gap between the civilised of this planet and the savage ... permit me to elucidate -s ation, with an ess and not a zed [which for the benefit of those who don't know, is the Z that US nationals are taught to call a 'zee' in what passes for their language] ... not a minor point at all, this - just as their 'history' and 'geography' became increasingly inbred over the years, so has the spelling deteriorated, in the case of the latter led by a Noah Webster who made a misleading 'dictionary' on which the inhabitants founded a cult ... trivia factoid - the only word in the english language with the 'isation' suffix properly spelled with a zed is the word 'demoralization', and that is because Mr Webster coined the word, and therefore gets to dictate how to spell it ... it has been found amusingly appropriate in some quarters that a word with this meaning would have a US provenancesixties ' about the desire of independent peoples to remain free from the direct control of outsiders .... none .... this is a timeless impulse, eternal, it is the reason the slaves of Rome revolted knowing full well their cause was hopeless, it is the reason the germanic tribes took such vengeance when they were able, it is the reason that patriots fought and died at Queenston Heights and Moraviantown and Crysler's Farm to defend our freedom against previous attacks by the ruling oligarchy to our southSo cut a deal ' - 'never negotiate with terrorists' they say, and indeed we have found it difficult to negotiate with snakes in the background setting the policy, no matter how 'nice' a front man they place at the table ... as for making any advances in Washington, forget it, the US system is absolutely rigged against us, never mind the 'nine DC law firms', i believe that to be a valiant effort but in the end wasteful of scarce cash, what has to happen is the average US citizen becoming aware of what is being done in the name of their federal government .... which may take an escalation to accomplish, a full-scale trade war, and indeed it is absurd that BC should admit every hour millions of dollars worth of US imports while its own products are blocked at the border ... either we are permitted access to the continental economy, or we are not, and currently we are not
