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From: Dennis Harries <dennis_harries_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:10:06 2004 Message-ID: <BAY1-F161Y3QmDUqu3G0002e560_at_hotmail.com> <html><div style='background-color:'><DIV> <P>Dear Sterling,</P> <P><EM>"I think that perhaps instead of Europe being old and wise, it is<BR>adolescent and wise ass, like a gaggle of teenagers spoiled rotten by having<BR>been excessively sheltered and pampered and saved from having to deal with<BR>disagreeable reality, until they fall into the delusion that Mummy and Daddie<BR>are just boorish dolts who know nothing and whose every act is an<BR>embarassment, while they, having formed all their opinions by the process of<BR>turning everything they should know upsidedown, know it all."</EM><BR></P> <P>I might take this personally, but I will keep it as a very bad example of allegory. </P> <P>I´m proud to to be a part of the modern european community, I live in Germany. </P> <P>If I take a step out of the door and go in any direction I will very soon reach the remnants of a very unfortunate european history - the demarkation line between the former east and west, the concentration camps, the remaining ruins of Dresden and other towns. There was a concentration camp some kilometres to the south where the nazis build V2-missiles, prisoners had to dig large tunnels into the mountain. The unfortunated ones who did not survive this were just cemented into the concrete walls. I´ve been in this place last year, I cannot describe the feelings standings in these dark tunnels withe the debris of rock, steel and those things you don´t see (but you know they are there and you know what I mean) around you, I was pretty close to hear my own heart beat.</P> <P>When I was just about nine years old, the iron curtain fell, I had no idea of politics, but I knew that there was something going on, things became different (we just lived some 30 kilometres from the german-german border to the east). After all, the revolution of 1989 happened without violence.</P> <P>I´m 21 now and I grew up with all these kinds of "experiences", and THIS is the education I got and THIS does not make me be a pacifist, but makes me THINK. </P> <P>And in my opinion and in the opinion of many, many other europeans - who may have had their own experiences with our history in whatever ways - the possibilities to solve the conflict in Iraq peacefully were not used to their full extent, because there have been other economical and political considerations that led to this war. I am happy with the people of Iraq who will now hopefully encounter a more fortunate future without Saddam, but I still think that this might have been achived without the aditional loss of lives. So I am agains this war.</P> <P>Europe is a great place to have friends, our diversity defines us and I, for my part, will kick every fascists ass, who tries to abuse this in the old manner (like Mr. Milosevic, just one example).</P> <P>This for the next five years</P> <P>Dennis Harries </P> <P> </P> <P> <BR></P></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fffbf0"></FONT></DIV></div><br clear=all><hr>Protect your PC - <a href="http://g.msn.com/8HMJEN/2755">Click here</a> for McAfee.com VirusScan Online </html> Received on Thu 10 Apr 2003 12:02:20 PM PDT |
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