JPF Home Page Forums General Messages General Message Forum Have To Speak Out

I always find it humorous when people attack the first free country ever to elect a minority to freely lead their country. The KKK hasn't been relevent since the 60's and is usually only ever mentioned or brought to life by lefties desperately trying to paint a wide swath of people with an outdated bigoted pejorative. I imagine you'll find far more IRA terrorists living among you in the UK than you'll find all racist and bigoted groups combined from the left and the right in the USA these days. If you get your news from the NY Times or CNN or any of the networks in the USA, you may as well be getting it from any other extremist propaganda resource from any banana republic.

There were regular random roadblocks in the UK with dozens of black suited battle ready troops with machine guns wandering the streets (and in one case pinning down the occupants of 2 vans we drove by at gunpoint). They asked us where we were going and the moment they heard my American accent, they smiled and waved us past. I think you all have a lot more to worry about in your own home country before you weigh in on ours. We also saw Nazi skin heads in the UK and in Germany. By comparison the KKK is a microscopically small fringe group of jack asses than rarely even show their faces anylonger and wouldn't be taken seriously if they did compared to machine gun roadblocks meant to quell bigotry between 2 brands of Christianity. The UK is fighting bigotry in their own streets with machine guns, the US is fighting one sect of a religion as well and currently is in debate about the financing source for a Mosque at Ground Zero while 100s of others already exist in Manhattan and the location in question is already functioning as a prayer center. The USA is the most open and tolerant county in history.

But the most annoying part of all of this is is that while we all banter this around ALL our countries openly tolerate mass genocide around the world while we speak. Everyone waits for the USA to be the ones to step up and fix things when most of the UN could stop the genocides easily without our help. How about putting up a bit before you point the next finger. (And make no mistake the USA should be stepping up too... but it's sadly clear that the clarion call to "never forget" the WWII Holocaust has already been forgotten or ignored many times by the entire world.

Brian