Theos-Talk Archives (March 2003 Message tt00279)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl@s...> wrote:
> Mic Forster wrote:
> > --- Dennis Kier <dennw3k@e...> wrote:
> > The business of the USA since
> > 
> >>the 1940s has been
> >>freedom and liberation, for the most part.
> > 
> > Thanks for the good joke, Dennis....I really needed a laugh....
> 
> And why do you think it is a joke?
> 
> Bart Lidofsky

There are a number of possible reasons, including the Hollywood 
Blacklist, the House Unamerican Activities Commitee, Senator Joe 
McCarthy, the Nixon enemies list, the Vietnam War, the pursuit of 
aniel Elllsberg, the railroading of Alger Hiss, the Watergate 
breakin, the sbsequent coverup, the last phase of the Jim Crow era, 
Enron, Worldcomm, the Imclone scandal, deliberate use of chemical, 
biologica;, and buclear weapons on US citizens and those of other 
countries, Pol Pot, the murder of Salvator Allende, the effort to 
illegally bring down the democratically elected government of 
Nicaraugua, environmental destruction in Central America, global 
warming, aic rain, extinvtion of millions of species, millions of 
babies in Iraq killed by US sanctions, and most recently shenanigans 
in Florida and a projected war in Iraq for the enrichment of afew 
private individuals. That is a greatly bbreviated list.

You are right, though, that the joke is not funny.