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Why I am leaving this Country
(Thos. Nagy, Information Clearing House, 07/30/03)
It is instructive to know how the wonderful democracy that the U.S. is exporting through its own very real WMD�s actually works. There are worse governments than the US �democracy,� but surely there are better ones, and US �democracy� is not worth exporting or imposing on anyone except the most desperate. . . . It has to do with Dr. Daniel Pipes. Dr. Daniel Pipes is a rather belligerent fellow who has been wonderfully successful in intimidating the vast majority of US professors into near total silence despite: (1) two major wars that are getting progressively worse (from the official US viewpoint), (2) a threatened nuclear war with North Korea that has the potential of killing us all, down to the cockroaches that have amazing resilience to radiation, and (3) a domestic economic crisis spinning out of control thanks to the insane quest for world dominance and the maniacal looting of the US by the chums of Bush, the First and Bush, the Second. . . . The good Dr. Pipes identified the six leading university professor villains in the US�I'm number 6�in a column in the New York Post, a newspaper that is perhaps just a few steps up from pure trash . . . B2's nomination of Pipes to the U.S. Institute of Peace is rivaled only by B1's naming of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court. . . . Continuing to teach in the US is no longer an option for me, particularly since evidently I will have no chance to clear my name before Congress. . . . So I am moving to Canada in a few days where I will apply for citizenship and try to rebuild my 20-year university career in a functioning democracy. . . . I think Canada's secret is simple: a small, peace keeping-oriented military; a small weapons industry; no empire to rule and no countries to conquer. (Sending trigger pullers to Afghanistan was an aberration. Canadian troops die if they must but as peace keepers, not as killers of essentially defenseless people.) . . . I hope to die in Canada and atone for my stupidity and culpability in paying taxes to the most well-oiled killing machine in history, the United States of America, by teaching peace studies and promoting pacifism, which I think is the only force powerful enough to overcome America�s super weapons.

posted by Lorenzo 12:46 AM