On Arnold

[Ivo Skoric]

Well, the basis of US political life is spin-doctoring, and at the 
root of spin-doctoring is a logical fallacy: changing of an argument. 
If it is obvious that you want A, and everybody else wants B, you say 
publicly that you really want B, and that you will fight those 
unspecified multitudes of undisclosed evil-doers who all want A. Then 
you calmly proceed to do what you want [A]. There was one 
"schlock'n'roll" cartoon in Voice a couple of months ago titled 
"Protect the Trees Act" explaining how the US government works - if 
the big money wants to cut all the trees in the US, the government 
will pass 'protect the trees act' and in order to protect the trees 
from forest fires and similar misfortunes, they'll cut them all and 
stack them up in warehouses.
ivo

On 11 Oct 2003 at 19:10, schmid wrote:

>> But to call hitler a bad guy, to call anybody with middle european
> origin a nazi seems not to damage political influence in the US -
> should I give you names?
>
> >>>>To call Europeans Nazis, that's probably OK in the US politics.
> Particularly in the Bush administrations. Germans, and French, they
> are all Nazis, for example. I think you can get away calling them
> that now in the US. Sad, what can I say?

Funny that the "old" europe is equal to nazi-europe - we have to
change the web-slogan to:

how you need it so you call it - better idea?

manfred

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