This article, from Boing Boing, quotes part of a (pay-to-read) NY Times piece about the disgraceful, and lethal, treatment of a blameless would-be US citizen by that benighted country’s Nazi security forces. It is almost impossible to believe.
I have always, somewhat unfashionably on some occasions, been sympathetic to the USA. The concept of a country founded on the basis of a good idea is so very refreshing. I have a number of friends in the USA, worked for many years for American, or American-related, companies, and find aspects of the American culture superior to our own. For one thing, they can cook. For another, they are excellent plumbers. For a third, they actually have a name for the sort of vigorous debate sometimes found in the better bits of the blogosphere; they call it ‘whipsong’. This analysis ignores less noticeable features like a written Constitution, and a Bill of Rights that means what it says.
It is difficult to see how the traditionally freedom-loving Americans have allowed a situation to develop in which they risk being allowed to die agonisingly in custody because the Nazi authorities made a mistake about an address.
If this sort of thing carries on my sympathy for the USA will eventually expire, and I will join the ranks of the anti-American ranters. Not that this would bother anyone, least of all the Nazi government of the USA. They’re having the time of their lives terrorising their once free citizens into being the extras out of ‘Metropolis’, and they’ve never cared what a Limey thinks anyway.
