Sinister: Sadness

[Keith Davis]

I could not believe what I was hearing on Tuesday morning. I was ready
> to spit out my glowing and exciting review of Saturday's SF show, when
I
> heard and seen images from our tragedy here in the states. How did
this
> happen? I wanted to say I am glad I had the experience to escape from
> this awful world and bask in the words and sounds of Belle and
> Sebastian's music before the reality of our lives actually hit me
> yesterday. So sad....here is an article I got from a Canadian paper
that
> says a lot.
>
>
> America: The Good Neighbor.
> Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a
> remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto
> by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television commentator. What follows is

> the full text of his.
>
> "This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the
> most generous and possibly the least
> appreciated people on all the earth.
>
>  Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted

> out of the debris of war by the Americans who
> poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.
None
> of these countries is today paying even the
> interest on its remaining debts to the United States.
>
>  When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans

> who propped it up, and their reward was
> to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I
saw
> it.
>
>
>
> When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United States that
> hurries in to help. This spring, 59 American
> communities were flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped.
>
>
>
> The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars
into
> discouraged countries. Now newspapers
> in those countries are writing about the decadent, warmongering
> Americans.
>
>
>
> I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the
> erosion of the United States dollar build its own
> airplane. Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal
the
> Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star,
> or the Douglas DC10?
>
>
>
> If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the International lines
> except Russia fly American Planes? You talk
> about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about German
> technocracy, and you get automobiles.
> You talk about American technocracy, and you find men on the moon -
not
> once, but several times - and safely
> home again.
>
>
>
> You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the
store
> window for everybody to look at. Even
> their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our
> streets, and most of them, unless they are
> breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from ma and pa at

> home to spend here.
>
>
>
> When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down
> through age, it was the Americans who
> rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central
> went broke, nobody
>
> Loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke.
>
>
>
> I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to the help of
other
> people in trouble. Can you name me
> even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I
> don't think there was outside help even
> during the San Francisco earthquake.
>
>
>
> Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned
> tired of hearing them get kicked around.
> They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they
do,
> they are entitled to thumb their nose at
> the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada

> is not one of those."
>
>
>
> Stand proud, America!

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