Your Message 18 indicates support of fascist imperialism.  Was that your intent, JT?  Hayekian

No I am a social democrat.  JT

Social Democrat?  Is that where two wolves and a sheep democratically vote on what to have for dinner?  The sheep typically loses ...

#1	Andorra:	83.52 years
#2	Macau:	82.27 years
#3	Japan:	82.02 years
#4	San Marino:	81.8 years
#5	Singapore:	81.8 years
#6	Hong Kong:	81.68 years
#7	Sweden:	80.63 years
#8	Australia:	80.62 years
#9	Switzerland:	80.62 years
#10	France:	80.59 years
#11	Guernsey:	80.53 years
#12	Iceland:	80.43 years
#13	Canada:	80.34 years
#14	Cayman Islands:	80.2 years
#15	Italy:	79.94 years
#16	Gibraltar:	79.93 years
#17	Monaco:	79.82 years
#18	Liechtenstein:	79.81 years
#19	Spain:	79.78 years
#20	Norway:	79.67 years
#21	Israel:	79.59 years
#22	Jersey:	79.51 years
#23	Faroe Islands:	79.49 years
#24	Greece:	79.38 years
#25	Austria:	79.21 years
#26	Virgin Islands:	79.2 years
#27	Malta:	79.15 years
#28	Netherlands:	79.11 years
#29	Luxembourg:	79.03 years
#30	Montserrat:	79 years
#31	New Zealand:	78.96 years
#32	Germany:	78.95 years
#33	Belgium:	78.92 years
#34	Saint Pierre and Miquelon:	78.76 years
#35	Guam:	78.76 years
#36	United Kingdom:	78.7 years
#37	Finland:	78.66 years
#38	Man, Isle of:	78.64 years
#39	Jordan:	78.55 years
#40	Puerto Rico:	78.54 years
#41	Bosnia and Herzegovina:	78.17 years
#42	Bermuda:	78.13 years
#43	Saint Helena:	78.09 years
#44	United States:	78 years

Essentially you are using "Bush Statistics" here, what you aren't saying is that former Communist nations like Albania and Hungry are included in the EU totals and they do not represent the Western European Social Democracies. Furthermore the CIA is changing the definition of how life expectancy is rated. What the CIA doesn't include is the prison inmates or homeless people's mortality rates, if they did the US would drop dramatically in their position on this list. I stand by my above statement.

Winston Churchill was asked why he sided with Joseph Stalin and his comment was that "If Adolph Hitler were to invade hell, then I would side with Satan". Furthermore his intentional bombing of German Civilian population in major cities were for the sole purpose of demoralizing then enemy. Can say as a person whom is descendent of the land that was under Nazi control that his reasoning was faulty. Furthermore Richard Feynman was asked why he developed the Atomic Bomb and his reply was that he was trying to defeat Hitler. These people prioritized and clearly everyone, even "German-Americans" like myself agree that the Third Reich was the number 1 # enemy at the time, the option of loosing was unthinkable and the war had to be won through hard calls.

Having said that, I have to openly admit that I prioritize. Right now the direct threat of those bearded people way over yonder is less dangerous then a bee sting, lightning strike or a shark attack. But when one juxtaposes that with a better then one in four chance of your children developing a social illness and dyeing prematurely a horrible death; just because the Paris Rockefellers want to impose the Culture Wars of a constant cycle of Catharsis / Gesedamy on their hapless subjects; OBL, Hugo Chavez and Ardigamad pale in comparison. Then when you add on the fact that I had people that were willing to help me move to a place that doesn't even have a scintilla of the risks to my off spring; these bright and shiny people start to look like...  

It is interesting to note that once a post a website to a "Radical" book, the very next web site is from the CIA. Honestly there is a off possibility that I had learned of this book from people that don't have the "Bright and Shiny" people's best interest and they may or may not be a concern to certain government agencies. That really isn't my concern on why they would go through all that bother, I don't know, maybe they see me as a potential asset.

But right now I have Adolph Hitler breathing down my neck and telling me to send my children to the showers. Sounds like the government has a problem and so do I. Now just how do we resolve our problems in a mutually beneficial manner. If we can not find some common ground and you take me for granted, then don't be suprized if some else does.

On the contrary - you are the one comparing apples and oranges.  If you are going to include the likes of Andorra why not also include Forest Hills, NY?  The European Union is comparable in population to the US whether you like it or not. The Berlin Wall came down 19 years ago.

That is NOT to say that you are part of organization or group that is trying to repress decent in America, it is just odd when I mentioned a book that contradicts our "Approved" view of American politic; the very next retort was from a CIA web site.

I wasn't necessarily replying to you as a individual, however for the last eight years I have been experienced in "Bush Tactician" re-education. What happens is people that disagree with the status quo, meaning either end of the "Foundation" left / right preapproved forms of diolog are essentially badgered to death with Chauvinistic / Fallacious claims of American superiority on the internet and in their personal lives. The tactic resembles a neo form of the "Potential Troublemaker" program of the J. Edgar Hoover  FBI. NOW those operations are out sourced to civic, religious and ideological groups... mostly funded by the Foundation. Believe me they do this to allot of people and "We Talk". So consequently many individuals involved in the resistance read my posts. Those comments were geared for them and any people with in the system whom disagree with the Tactics; but have families to feed.

Please disregard if it doesn't apply to you.

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