Boycott The Body Shop !!! 636
Paul
rnx...@britshit.org at rnx...@britshit.org wrote on 9/29/02 4:42 PM:
> Description: Anita Roddick (founder and CEO of The Body Shop) commentary for
> the London Independent regarding American civil liberties since 9/11/2001
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> How has the world changed since Sept. 11? For one thing, Europeans no longer
> aspire to *be* Americans.
>
> Who would, given how that country moves steadily and inexorably toward
> dictatorship? The American people, in a scant 12 months, have had their
> once-enviable civil liberties outrageously eroded in the name of patriotism.
> The ideals of freedom and democracy which America pledges to export across the
> globe have been perverted so spectacularly at home that America's admirers
> hardly recognise her anymore.
>
> Where once Americans reveled in their uniquely American right and willingness
> to criticize their government, they are now told that those who dissent are no
> better than terrorists, or terrorists themselves. They have had their pride of
> country, their patriotism, hijacked by a self-interested and short-sighted
> government which steals freedoms from its own people and gives riches to
> corporations and "security" infrastructures such as the military, FBI, and
> CIA, all of which which have proven, in the past 12 months, to be either
> fatally incompetent and totally corrupt.
>
> Those Americans who would question their government are told to "watch what
> they say." The FBI has been given broad reign to spy on citizens with phone
> taps and email snoops. Long-held ideals of fair and speedy trials are thrown
> out the window as suspected terrorists and sympathizers are "disappeared" like
> the enemies of Pinochet 20 years ago in Chile.
>
> In exchange for their freedoms, Americans are not safer now than they were a
> year ago; in fact, they are probably less so. Their government is a rogue
> state, rejecting international consensus on every front and threatening
> first-strike nuclear attacks and politically expedient invasions of sovereign
> nations. America has more nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons that any
> other country, and it is the only nation to have used such a weapon against
> another. And still it stubbornly refuses any international effort or treaty to
> regulate, minimise, or eliminate such weapons, even as it uses Iraq's
> suspected possession of (or mere desire for) them as reason for wholesale
> attack.
>
> America's us-against-the-world mentality has managed to wear away almost all
> of the remarkable international sympathy it built up just after Sept. 11. Bush
> & Co. has slapped the international community in the face as the it tried to
> embrace and console the United States. Now the enmity has left America alone,
> more reviled and isolated internationally than before.
>
> The scars of Ground Zero will heal, the grief at the loss of so many innocents
> will ease, but the damage the United States has inflicted on itself will last
> far longer. To hell with George Bush; God save America.
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