From: vsd76@hotmail.com   
      
   "Earl Evleth"  ??????:BB27B0C2.9A1D%evleth@wanadoo.fr...   
   > On 1/07/03 17:35, in article   
   qXhMa.700$Fz3.287@newsfep3-gui.server.ntli.net,   
   > "John Rennie"  wrote:   
   >   
   > > The repression of   
   > > the natives in the Philippines by US forces is known in   
   > > America; Mark Twain wrote a fine essay on the   
   > > subject.   
   >   
   >   
   > It was a shock to me also that Jiggy is not knowledgeable of   
   > one of the darker passages in US history.   
   >   
   > Each nation has them.  I can under stand people "forgetting" about   
   > them as one does personally in one own`s life, we all carry some moments   
   > we remember with shame.  We don`t want to remember but do at times, they   
   > are never forgotten.   
   >   
   > But to "not know" really is discouraging.  This is a sort of cultural   
   > conspiracy to avoid the truth.  To deny the truth.   
   >   
   > This is what is apparently going now on now.   
   >   
   > Earl   
      
   I noticed that many of our American friends here like to be sure of their   
   own good conscience, ignoring their own turpitudes. That's easier to give   
   Europeans lessons of civilization, reaclling facts that happened decades   
   ago, while implementing nowadays executions on minors at the time of the   
   acts or on mentally retarded people, or keeping hundreds of persons bereft   
   of any human right in what looks every day, more and more, like a   
   concentration camp.   
      
   I'd like to ask them why they don't put their practices where their mouth   
   is.   
      
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