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[misterpee]

Co anglicy sadza o Amerykanach: z Telegraph

Britons see US as vulgar empire builder
By Ben Fenton
(Filed: 03/07/2006)



Britons have never had such a low opinion of the leadership of the United
States, a YouGov poll shows.

As Americans prepare to celebrate the 230th anniversary of their independence
tomorrow, the poll found that only 12 per cent of Britons trust them to act
wisely on the global stage. This is half the number who had faith in the
Vietnam-scarred White House of 1975.

Most Britons see America as a cruel, vulgar, arrogant society, riven by class
and racism, crime-ridden, obsessed with money and led by an incompetent
hypocrite.

American troops are failing either to win "hearts and minds" in Iraq or bring
democracy to that country.

More than two-thirds who offered an opinion said America is essentially an
imperial power seeking world domination. And 81 per cent of those who took a
view said President George W Bush hypocritically championed democracy as a
cover for the pursuit of American self-interests.

A spokesman for the American embassy said that the poll's findings were
contradicted by its own surveys.

"We question the judgment of anyone who asserts the world would be a better
place with Saddam still terrorizing his own nation and threatening people
well beyond Iraq's borders.

"With respect to the poll's assertions about American society, we bear some
of the blame for not successfully communicating America's extraordinary
dynamism.

"But frankly, so do you [the British press]."

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misterpee napisała:


> More than two-thirds who offered an opinion said America is essentially an
> imperial power seeking world domination.

Hi, hi, zazdrosniki, zolc ich zalewa, nie moga przebolec, ze zostali z tej
pozycji wykopsani! Sami nie mieliby nic przeciw, oczywiscie, by ZNOW byc
"imperial power seeking world domination". Jak stara przechodzona prostytuta
wymysla mlodej dziewczynie, ze ta sie zle prowadzi, to mnie to jakos dziwnie nie
przekonuje. Podobnie w tym przypadku.

Co to jest Anglia???

[captain.america]

To taka mala wysepka kolo Eurazji, wielkosci mniej wiecej Wyoming albo Dakoty
Polnocnej. Pogoda do dupy, humor i komunikacja tez. Tubylcy maja powazne braki w
uzebieniu i zajmuja sie piciem herbaty, waleniem sie po ryjach na meczach
"soccera" i wysadzaniem sie w powietrze w metrze. Siedziba wielu interesujacych
zaraz, w tym mad cow diesase, hoof and mouth disease i islamofaszyzmu.
Nominalnie rzadzona przez krolowa ale w rzeczywistosci rzadem kieruja Benny Hill
i Jas Fasola.

PS IF we wanted the limeys' opinion about us, we would beat it out of them.

[misterpee]

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
In Congress, July 4, 1776,

THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF THE THIRTEEN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to
dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to
assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which
the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the
opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel
them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that
they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among
these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving
their just powers from the consent of the governed.

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That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is
the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new
Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers
in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and
Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established
should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all
experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils
are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they
are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing
invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute
Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government,
and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the
necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.
The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated
injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an
absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a
candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the
public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing
importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be
obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of
people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the
Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and
distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of
fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly
firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be
elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have
returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the
mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions
within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose
obstructing the Laws of Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others
to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new
Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws
for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their
offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers
to harass our People, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of
our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil
power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our
constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts
of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders which
they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province,
establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so
as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same
absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering
fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with
power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and
waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed
the Lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat
the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of
Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally
unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear
Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and
Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring
on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known
rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and
conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most
humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated
injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define
a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned
them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an
unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances
of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice
and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to
disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and
correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of
consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces
our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War,
in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General
Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the
rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good
People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United
Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they
are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all politic

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Washington's Farewell Address
1796


Friends and Citizens:

The period for a new election of a citizen to administer the executive
government of the United States being not far distant, and the time actually
arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to
be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it
may conduce to a more distinct expression of the public voice, that I should
now apprise you of the resolution I have formed, to decline being considered
among the number of those out of whom a choice is to be made.

I beg you, at the same time, to do me the justice to be assured that this
resolution has not been taken without a strict regard to all the considerations
appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful citizen to his country; and
that in withdrawing the tender of service, which silence in my situation might
imply, I am influenced by no diminution of zeal for your future interest, no
deficiency of grateful respect for your past kindness, but am supported by a
full conviction that the step is compatible with both.

The acceptance of, and continuance hitherto in, the office to which your
suffrages have twice called me have been a uniform sacrifice of inclination to
the opinion of duty and to a deference for what appeared to be your desire. I
constantly hoped that it would have been much earlier in my power, consistently
with motives which I was not at liberty to disregard, to return to that
retirement from which I had been reluctantly drawn. The strength of my
inclination to do this, previous to the last election, had even led to the
preparation of an address to declare it to you; but mature reflection on the
then perplexed and critical posture of our affairs with foreign nations, and
the unanimous advice of persons entitled to my confidence, impelled me to
abandon the idea.

I rejoice that the state of your concerns, external as well as internal, no
longer renders the pursuit of inclination incompatible with the sentiment of
duty or propriety, and am persuaded, whatever partiality may be retained for my
services, that, in the present circumstances of our country, you will not
disapprove my determination to retire.

The impressions with which I first undertook the arduous trust were explained
on the proper occasion. In the discharge of this trust, I will only say that I
have, with good intentions, contributed towards the organization and
administration of the government the best exertions of which a very fallible
judgment was capable. Not unconscious in the outset of the inferiority of my
qualifications, experience in my own eyes, perhaps still more in the eyes of
others, has strengthened the motives to diffidence of myself; and every day the
increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more that the shade of
retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied that if any
circumstances have given peculiar value to my services, they were temporary, I
have the consolation to believe that, while choice and prudence invite me to
quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.

In looking forward to the moment which is intended to terminate the career of
my public life, my feelings do not permit me to suspend the deep acknowledgment
of that debt of gratitude which I owe to my beloved country for the many honors
it has conferred upon me; still more for the steadfast confidence with which it
has supported me; and for the opportunities I have thence enjoyed of
manifesting my inviolable attachment, by services faithful and persevering,
though in usefulness unequal to my zeal. If benefits have resulted to our
country from these services, let it always be remembered to your praise, and as
an instructive example in our annals, that under circumstances in which the
passions, agitated in every direction, were liable to mislead, amidst
appearances sometimes dubious, vicissitudes of fortune often discouraging, in
situations in which not unfrequently want of success has countenanced the
spirit of criticism, the constancy of your support was the essential prop of
the efforts, and a guarantee of the plans by which they were effected.
Profoundly penetrated with this idea, I shall carry it with me to my grave, as
a strong incitement to unceasing vows that heaven may continue to you the
choicest tokens of its beneficence; that your union and brotherly affection may
be perpetual; that the free Constitution, which is the work of your hands, may
be sacredly maintained; that its administration in every department may be
stamped with wisdom and virtue; that, in fine, the happiness of the people of
these States, under the auspices of liberty, may be made complete by so careful
a preservation and so prudent a use of this blessing as will acquire to them
the glory of recommending it to the applause, the affection, and adoption of
every nation which is yet a stranger to it.

Here, perhaps, I ought to stop. But a solicitude for your welfare, which cannot
end but with my life, and the apprehension of danger, natural to that
solicitude, urge me, on an occasion like the present, to offer to your solemn
contemplation, and to recommend to your frequent review, some sentiments which
are the result of much reflection, of no inconsiderable observation, and which
appear to me all-important to the permanency of your felicity as a people.
These will be offered to you with the more freedom, as you can only see in them
the disinterested warnings of a parting friend, who can possibly have no
personal motive to bias his counsel. Nor can I forget, as an encouragement to
it, your indulgent reception of my sentiments on a former and not dissimilar
occasion.

Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no
recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.

The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to
you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real
independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of
your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly
prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from
different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken
in your minds the conviction of this truth; as this is the point in your
political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies
will be most constantly and actively (though often covertly and insidiously)
directed, it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the
immense value of your national union to your collective and individual
happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable
attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the
palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its
preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a
suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned; and indignantly frowning upon
the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from
the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various
parts.

For this you have every inducement of sympathy and interest. Citizens, by birth
or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your
affections. The name of American, which belongs to you in your national
capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any
appellation derived from local discriminations. With slight shades of
difference, you have the same religion, manners, habits, and political
principles. You have in a common cause fought and triumphed together; the
independence and libert

[you-know-who]

juz w 1796r. porzemowienia byly pisane przez oplacanych wieszczow?

caly swiat tak mysli,nie tylko Angole

[mars_99]

to ze hameryka to maloletni gowniarz ktory nazarl sie sterydow i wyszedl
na ulice zaczepiac wpierw a nastepnie napadac na starszych od siebie i
madrzejszych ale nieco slabszych fizycznie..

[you-know-who]

> extraordinary dynamism.

or dynamitism?