JamesD said:
Do you really see Americans attacking European policies as much as you see Europeans attacking American policies?
Yes. Or, well. No. More. Much much more.
How about the raid on TPB? When the Swedish government was bullied into acting against their own laws by the MPAA and the American government. How about the arrest of Jon Lech Johansen for breaking the copy protection on DVDs? It is our consumer right to be able to copy our own DVDs to other media or back them up. How about your whining about us not helping you out in Iraq (which we did) after you helped us in WW2? How about your constant bullying of European politics through the RIAA and MPAA? How about your bullying us into participating in your war for oil, sorry. I mean "War on Terror" with Bush's speach saying all who are not with you are against you, continuing to how your country would whoop any of the ones who are against you. Bullying! How about your last decades of toying around in our politics in ways noone should be allowed? I can name assasinations, smuggling of war criminals, encarceration of innocents without a trial. Breach of multiple international laws and treaties.
And you blame us for whining? The American presidents who have been assasinated have been killed by Americans, not Europeans. Many presidents in other countries have been assasinated by American agents in service to the USA, and under American orders.
This is why we have a right to stick our noses into what you do. Because you prod and poke. You stick yours wherever you please and never even ask permission. You toy with the rest of the world at the expense of many many hundred thousand lives and you expect us to love you and not interfere as you stand for so much wickedness? So many breaches of agreements and international laws.
They could say whatever they want and I can't stop them, I'm just asking why they think they have the right to stick their noses into what we do? I have many opinions about European policies or the policies of certain European countries, but I don't say them because it's not my country and not my place to because it doesn't affect the United States.
However your actions do affect us. Your nation is very much not an island. And what you do DOES affect us. Hence I believe we have a right to express our oppinion and discontentment should that be the case.
This world would have a much more civil state of discourse if countries and people just minded their own business.
Really?
I disagree. It would be better if people actually followed the treaties they signed. It would be better if the nations abided by international laws and cared enough to attempt to make a difference for the benefit of all where oppression occurs, and where oppression has it's roots.
Much oppression has it's root in Europe and the United States. We are both sinners.
