To ALL: DEMS, REPUBS, Non-AMERICANS....Do you know who Gordon Sinclair was(1900-1984) ? Do you know what he?

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did for the U.S. in 1973? As an American, it's very refreshing to see a 'foreigner' speak as he did. He was a Canadien. What a patriot!! Look him up and post your thoughts..

He did a recording in '73 that was produced on a 45 record. I was young then, only 12yrs old, but I bought that 45 when it came out and have never forgotten my gratitude to him. This would be great to play for our youth!! And our middle-aged and elderly. EVERYONE

Jesi - I don't know how old you are, but this non-sense of America bashing only became 'trendy' recently. Yes, some occurred in the past and that's what this Canadien is addressing, but never to the extent of the hatred we see in today's world

To ALL - You should listen to it to get the full passionate affect from this man!!

Please pass this one on to all of the 'haters', both inside and outside our country. Listening to it does it all.

Answer 1

Canada still hates the US, so I find it hard to believe he had much of an impact on our whiney liberal friends to the north. (I know many Canadians do not hate the US, but the elected policticians get into office on USA bashing.)

http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/sinclair.asp

Answer 2

I did a search in Wikipidia and I have seen this before. He wrote the following:

Sinclair pointed out that when many countries faced economic crises or natural disasters, Americans were among the most generous people in the world at offering assistance, but when America faced a crisis, it often faced that crisis alone.

Sadly this is true. How many times, in recent history, have any other country help us after Katrina, 9/11, etc.? I can't think of any. But we are always the ones to step up to the plate to help each other and anyone else in the world.

What thanks do we get? Bomb blowing up our embassies, citizens being kidnapped in the middle east, etc. But I guess we are a kinder gentler nation than the libs want to believe.

Answer 3

Very interesting. I'll have to read more about him. Here are some of the things he said.
The Americans
This editorial was broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair on 5 June 1973 as the United States was withdrawing from Vietnam. It later was printed in the U.S. Congressional Record. The text here is the one forwarded by Gretchen Phillips that set off the round of discussion on the Sinclair Discussion List. The original script is also available.
"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 the franc 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, war-mongering 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 DC-10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the International Airlines except Russia fly American planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or woman on the moon?

"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 American 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, Americans!"

Answer 4

In times such as these it is good to remember how just and carring we once where .
How we have shaped the world and those lifes that are in it today .
How we asked little of the rest of the world in return for our great sacrifice .
This how ever does not give us permission to act single handedly against a nation whom we at one time supported and assisted and allowed to control its own people with an iorn fist for the sake of stable oil prices .
We have sat back for an entire generation now and lived of the prosperity of our predisessors greatness and achievments .
When we left vietnam it was not because we could not win the war it was because to win would have killed so many more people that in the end it was not worth remaining .
YEs living under communism is hard for those under its control .They are alive though and when they come to accept that changing the believes they hold will free them from communism then we will have won something .
People live under the control of dictators for the simple reason they do not teach others not to become involved in or with those who's ideaology is one that allows for the mistreatment of others for any reason .(so i have to say torture is one of those things and when i see my own nation so willing to commit acts of this nature i must protest .When i see my nation destroy another to stop a handfull of radicals from perpitrating random acts of violence in america i must say the price of american and foriegn lives is to great .In the balance at this point is tens of thousands killed in Iraq an esculation of violence in the populace here at home towards gays homeless blacks mexicans and jews and by its very nature violence beggats violence .)We are heading for more violence today by not making people see that force is not the way to deal with our problems Isolation is .We must offer the world the choice of cooperating with us and isolating all those governments and the people who support them from being part of the world trade community .Those people who suffer in their own nations do so for not being responcible enough to have stopped the governments and leaders from becoming a threat to the rest of us .
They need to make the sacrifice not us .It is there lives that threaten ours .If they can not or will not change then all of them have to face the music.
If we can not isolate them from the rest of the world then we need to simply destroy them .It is up to them to bow to our wishes if we are truly just and correct in our ways .

Answer 5

Excellant post bottles. I hope a lot of the Anti-American Americans read this. Thanks for it.