"T Moore" < click.an.email.ico@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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| Cleanliness, they say, is next to godliness. This would make the United
| States of America one of the most squeaky-clean, hygienic and sanitised
| nation on Earth. How do I know this? Because a recent survey has shown
| that fully 70 percent of Americans say they know that God really exists
| and that they have no doubts about this at all.
|
| In this blind, trusting belief they're only outdone by their Mexican
| neighbours; of whom 80 percent are utterly convinced that there is an
| Almighty up there, doing what Almighties do. It's odd, therefore, that
| Mexico has failed to attain the exalted standards of cleanliness of
their
| fellow believers north of the border.
|
| How amazingly high these percentages, 70 and 80, are becomes clear when
| we look at the rest of the survey. Serene certainty affects only 24
| percent of Brits, 25 percent of the French and 22 percent of Germans.
| Only in Italy, with 51 percent, is the existence of God a dead cert for
| the majority; but what a slender majority it is, compared with the Dutch
| 'No' vote against the EU Constitution!
|
| Still, it shows that when it comes to believing the unprovable old
Europe
| cannot match the glowing faith of the Americans; which, in turn,
explains
| that country's urgent desire to spread liberty, Christianity, a taste
for
| consumerism and modern plumbing around the world. Someone's got to do
it.
| Lucky, then, that they've got the military clout for it; we can't expect
| too much from the Mexicans there.
|
| America - in spite of its claims to hard-nosed high morality and the
| ready availability of liquids that kill 99 percent of all household
| germs- is in fact in decline. A decline, I must add, in standards of
both
| morality and hygiene. Come with me, if you will, to Guantanamo Bay, the
| place where the world can observe the very cutting edge of America's
| current supremacy.
|
| Dealing, as they do, with several hundred misguided characters - who
| would, if given half a chance, break every one of the Ten Commandments -
| the Americans at Camp X-Ray have a unique op****tunity of showing these
| people what Christian compassion and state of the art sanitation are all
| about. Didn't quite work out that way, though, did it?
|
| I've noticed a strange phenomenon: the less you believe, the more likely
| you are to treat those who do believe with respect. The more intense
your
| Christian convictions (or your Muslim ones, obviously) the more you will
| be inclined to reject the other man's faith as a load of rubbish.
|
| No surprise, then that among the US staff at Guantanamo (of whom 70
| percent are fervent believers in God) respect for Islam and its Holy
| Scriptures is virtually non-existent. This has led to a welter of
| complaints from inmates, accusing American guards of abusing both them
| and their religion. A disturbing state of affairs, so what better,
| dispassionate official to put in charge of an investigation than US
| Brigadier General Jay W. Hood - the very man who acts as head honcho in
| Guantanamo Bay?
|
| Hood's inquiry has thrown up a re****t that reads as a bloodless version
| of Reservoir Dogs, no guns going off but a lot of kicking and shouting.
| Evidence was found of at least five incidents of US personnel -
| intentionally or unintentionally - abusing or 'mishandling' the Koran,
| the holiest object a Muslim can think of.
|
| Especially interesting was the case of an inmate who was reading his
holy
| book, sitting in his cell near an air vent, when suddenly urine splashed
| from the vent all over the Koran. Turned out a US guard - obviously
faced
| with a sudden, violent call of nature - had peed against the outside
wall
| right into the air vent.
|
| No toilets at Camp X-Ray? Does military discipline not forbid piddling
| against walls, and risking 110V up your willy? Did the guy wash his
hands
| afterwards, or what?
|
| More disturbing than that was Jay Hood's 'confirmation' of at least 15
| incidents in which detainees had mishandled the Koran; by using it as a
| pillow, ripping pages out of it, spitting on it and 'throwing urine on
| it.'
|
| Knowing, as we all do, how fanatical Muslims are about their faith - a
| fanaticism their illegal detention in Guantanamo Bay only serves to
| reinforce - how likely is that? It is, I am utterly convinced, a pack of
| cynical fabrication, from beginning to end.
|
| Real moral decline doesn't start when you do bad things. It begins when
| you can't even be bothered to lie about them cleverly.
|
|
| --
| T Moore
| N E Manchester, England
|
| http://sitemenu.tom-moore.com/
Most Americans claim they are not racist too, but Americans are big liars
about most everything. Lying is the real national s****t with the
finalists
being the capitalists.
M
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