Hello Everybody,

It has been said among some in this echo that the editor of the
Fidonews has made several anti-American comments in this forum.
Or that his views are basically anti-American and that as editor
he should not be taking sides as what his views are, especially
since an entire zone is composed almost entirely of sysops from
the USA. As such, I have taken it upon myself to show an American
point of view in regards to our Independence Day, as observed by
most Americans on the Fourth of July -

What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day
that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross
injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your
national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty
and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence;
your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and
hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade,
and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety,
and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace
a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of
practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these
United States, at this very hour.

Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the
monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South
America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last,
lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation,
and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.

~Frederick Douglass, July 5, 1852

Happy Fourth of July everyone!

--Lee

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