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To: Alan Whirlwind who wrote (14602)	6/30/2002 11:16:09 AM
From: The Vet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82361

I don't understand is why everyone else tariffs the US with abandon and when the US tariffs in reply all of a sudden we are the evil cohorts of Satan Firstly Alan everyone else do not tariff US goods. Some do, but a large number of countries do not. However the US continues, and exacerbates trade restrictive practices like huge farm subsidies that affect every country regardless of their approach to the US. The US also made most of the WTO rules, mostly to their advantage, but now they want to ignore those same rules when it doesn't suit their domestic political situation. It isn't honest and it isn't fair, and you can't expect the rest of the world to play fair when the country that made the rules ignores them....

To: Alan Whirlwind who wrote (14602)	6/30/2002 12:34:40 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82361

Al >But it is more likely that England has a hand in running the US. I think they still see us as a colony of sorts and I'm sure they have a lot of big investments here. There's no doubt about that. More and more, I see the US like a dinosaur with a big, powerful body and a small brain. So small, in fact, that anyone who can effectively lobby the congress and/or the president can virtually do as he pleases both with the US constitution and the rest of the world. The "people" think they run the show but they don't. In fact, I perceive a massive contradiction between the way the American people like to think about their country, and present it to the rest of the world, and the way it really is. In fact, it's clear there are tiers of invisible government above the one that people vote for and which we see on TV. It's also clear that the policies espoused by the US government are increasingly not those of the American people (whoever they are?) and that the government can and does what it pleases, in the name of democracy, but on behalf of a special group of people. antiwar.com ""Is America a Police State?" My answer is: "Maybe not yet, but it is fast approaching." The seeds have been sown and many of our basic protections against tyranny have been and are constantly being undermined." Why should anyone wish to remove the basic protections against tyranny unless they wished to create a tyranny?! The problem is the tyrants are still invisible.