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conscious evolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 05:11 PM
Response to Reply #190
207. So people from
Central and South America are coming here because their home countries are paradise?
I know the ones I interact with came here because of the actions of United Fruit,Phelps-Dodge,Coca Cola and other large American corporations have made it impossible for them to make a living in their home countries.
And when they do try to stand up for their rights,we send death squads trained by us at the School of the Americas to murder and terrorize them.
The same can also be said for a a large percentage of immigrants from Africa.Ever here the phrase blood diamonds?Did you know there are large mineral and oil deposits in Africa?The majority of conflicts there are being fought over control of these resources and once again US and other foriegn interest are behind the conflicts.
Even in the mid seventies many of the Vietnamese refugees coming here were fleeing from retribution for being collaborators with the US in the war over there.
By the way,in case you did not know this,the Vietnam war was fought not to protect them from communism but to protect the rubber plantations of French and American tire companies.
While it is true that Ho Chi Min was a communist the average Vietnamese was not.They were just rallying behind the group that was trying to drive the US and other foreign countries and business interests that were exploiting their natural resource out of their country.
Sort of like what is happening in Iraq today.The Iraqis are rallying behind their religous leaders because they are the ones standing up to our theft of their resources.
You really should educate yourself about what is really happening in the world.The Us is not that mythological shining beacon you have been brainwashed into believing.We may have been at one time but those days are long past.
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