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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (16448)	4/20/2004 3:41:17 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

It's a pretty simple point Chinu. I believe, as do many others, that a citizen of this country has more standing to to criticize the current government than does someone who is not a citizen. Obviously, anyone, even the little Gecko on the Geico commercials, is free to criticize. But when that criticism comes from someone not a citizen, that is a factor that a reader ought to be able to take into account in assessing the speaker's credibility. You, for example, have posted that you are a naturalized citizen. Great. I'm glad you thought enough of this country to go to the time and effort to become naturalized. AS has a name that suggests she/he is a citizen - American Spirit. She/he posts as if she/he is a citizen. Yet she/he has an idiosyncratic tendency to spell certain words in a manner that suggest he/she may not be a citizen. "organised" "defence" So I asked a simple question. Is AS a citizen of this country? (I say "this country" because, as I sit and type this, I am firmly planted in one of the 50 states). Simple question, and it should have a simple three or two word answer. For whatever reason, AS chooses not to respond, which suggests to me that the answer to my question is... <font color=red><font size=10>No.</font> <font color=black>Which in and of itself raises a number of interesting issues about AS's intentions, motivations and agenda. Don't you think?