Comments on: Hey, Americans

By: Yoz

Yoz — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:03:56 +0000

Let me just check that comments are working again…

By: T. Jefferson

T. Jefferson — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 06:05:18 +0000

I’m another American who seconds your response. It’s amazing to see what people will support in the name of their country as soon as their patriotism is challenged and they have the horror of terrorism fresh in their minds. It’s as if America just couldn’t handle the senseless violence of 9/11. As you’ve implied, people here are more concerned about freedom-rhetoric than their actual freedoms, more loyal to the people in their government than the idea of a just, reasonable government itself.
Flags are a good example here. American flags used to be complex symbols that embodied living, changing ideas and principles. At this point, nearly the only people who fly flags here are those who are absolutely unwilling to question what it means and agressively attack those who do.
Tragic doesn’t even begin to describe it all.

By: nick

nick — Sat, 09 Jul 2005 14:20:36 +0000

Being an expat and seeing the display of wankery from American cablenewsers — not just the ignorant bastards in the Faux News studio, but the arses who got on the last plane out of JFK and now think they’re experts on Britain after 18 hours in the country — makes me feel very, very foreign.

By: Lukas

Lukas — Sat, 09 Jul 2005 01:23:49 +0000

Actually, by showing how a country deals with terrorism without histrionics, Britain’s already doing the best job of preventing Bush/Fox/et al from using this the way that they’d like.
But trust me, there are plenty of us Americans who are ashamed and enraged by the actions of our government and media.