There is a website
http://www.arena.org.nz that seems to exist soley to slam the US.
Some of their articles are right on, but the vast majority of them are so far fetched even blitz would laugh. Anyway, unlike the flaming that goes on here, every month or so I write these guys a letter when it is on a topic they started that I can debunk without looking like an idiot or getting "out debated". I always do it in a sicky sweet format, and usually get one back the same way.
Here is the latest:
Dear Geoffrey,
I'm glad you found our website useful. It's always nice to hear from
our supporters. It encourages our efforts to stop the murderous Hitlerite
regime currently illegally occupying the White House.
Glad to know that as someone who loves democracy, you share our
goals. Your email adds weight to our hope that one day, democracy will
return to the USA.
Let's hope it's in time - not only for the innocent Iraqi population
(what's left of them), but for the third of US citizens (around 100 million
people!) who live below the poverty line.
Perhaps this illegal, genocidal war might prove to be the catalyst from
which will emerge a United States that is at least as fortunate as our
country, where we don't have enormous problems with handguns, or
poverty (well, at least not to the extreme extent you'll find it in yours!),
where corrupt and venal corporations don't own the government and
people are basically more sensible than in the USA because we don't
have as extreme and saturating a propaganda machine to contend with.
I share your concern for those who are sucked in by it to the point that
they have a completely unrealistic view of their "great" country (which
BTW I wouldn't want to live in if you paid me excessively), and wish you
well.
Joe Davies
Arena Website Organizer
I wish I had the email I originally sent him, but he took so long to get back to me it was deleted.
