I cannot believe your America-hating ass brought up the injuns and slavery.  That is pathetic.  You also left out where we “stole” California and the southwest from Mexico.  There ought to be a statute of limitations on bringing up these lame arguments.  Nevertheless, last time I checked, my grandparents were rock farmers on the slopes of Mt. Etna when all that was going on.  Talk about invasion, subjugation and slavery.  My peeps come from Cerami, Sicily.  That is not the fashionable coastline, but an interior mountaintop village where the indigenous Sicilian people fled from an endless parade of conquerors: Carthaginians, Greek, Romans, Vandals, Ostrogoths, and Byzantines all traded my homeland like the center square on a chessboard.  In 827 A.D. even the Muslim Arabs got in on the act and occupied Sicily, subjugating the populace – forcing them either to convert to Islam or become second-class dhimmi.  See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhimmi     

Then the Normans drove the Muslims out in the 1060’s – the same time their relatives were conquering England.  The German (Swabian) Hohenstaufen rulers replaced the Normans.  The Germans were replaced by the French (Anjou), who were replaced by the Spanish, who were replaced by other French (Savoy), then the Austrian Hapsburgs, then still other French (Bourbon).  There was a revolution in the 1860’s and independence was finally thought a possibility, but in 1866, the reunified Italian navy bombarded Palermo and conquered the island.  The Italians summarily executed hundreds of thousands of sicilians, burned villages and imposed a cruel martial law to maintain order.  The sicilian economy collapsed and people were starving (even though the island, blessed with excellent climate and rich volcanic soil, had once been the granary of the entire Roman World).  It was at this time, 1920, that my grandfather said “Fuck It” and moved to Monteclair, New Jersey…  He didn’t complain about 3,000 years of persecution.  He just got out of Dodge, opened a barber shop, found a wife willing to pump out 8 boys and a girl, and taught his kids how to speak English.  So, explain to me, again, exactly why I should feel guilty because some unrelated white man, at a time long ago, in a land far away from any of my predecessors, gave small pox to savages and fetters to negros.
 
You need to stop applying your self-loathing, pussified, post-cold war, Euro morality to ancient American history.  Quack your nonsense to the America-hating Euro trash, who will applaud you for being a “reformed” former ugly American.  We’re not buying crazy here anymore.  Unfortunately, we’re already stock up on that commodity.
 
You claim I can’t think or say anything anti-American.  That is B.S.! (and if the NSA is reading they can take notes):

1)         Bush hires incompetents in positions of importance as political paybacks.
2)         Our political system is totally corrupt.  Explain to me how a defense contractor seeking a government contract can contribute $$$ to a political campaign and that $$$ is not considered a bribe?
3)         The Iraq war, though militarily sustainable indefinitely at its current state, has been and continues to be mishandled.  More troops are needed in al Anbar province.
4)         The CIA is not doing enough to protect me from traditional Islam.  They are more interested in leaking half-truths to undermine the current administration.
5)         Illegal immigration is destroying our society.  Public schools are useless.  Emergency rooms are closing.  Traffic is congested.  Explain to me how allowing Mexico to export its crushing poverty problem to the US is good for our society?  Explain to me how introducing 70 million poor uneducated Mexican who are more interested in reconquista than assimilation in the next 20 years (on top of the 15 million that are already hear) is a good thing for our society?  Bush and the Senate are delusional on this issue.  I’ll give up my cheap maid and gardener, if you’ll give me back my public schools. (Also, how easy was it for you to be allowed to stay in Austria?  Apart from the obvious brainwashing, what else did they make you do?)
6)         Reality TV sucks – except for The Donald’s “The Apprentice.”  That show is fascinating.
7)         The US mainstream media does not tell us the real truth like Der Spiegel.  (Just kidding, I’m being facetious. Der Spiegel is to journalism what Freddie Mercury was to family values.)
8)         Crime.  However, since we locked up the largest percentage of our population in the world, crime is no longer a major issue in the US.  It may have been in the early 90’s when you were in LA, but the crime rates are way way down from those peak years.  Being a victim of crime is always a possibility, like being struck by lightning, but it is not something to cause you to change your life – other than keeping priests away from your kids.
9)         Stupid Americans tend to be less “cosmopolitan” than Stupid Europeans – wait, that might be a good thing.  I little bit of knowledge can be a dangerous thing in the wrong hands.  Stupid Europeans who think they are superior just because they know the difference between Austria and Australia, annoy me.  What makes them superior to a stupid American who doesn't know the difference between Sweden and Switzerland, but who can get to level 12 in Halo 3 or can unlock the porn scene in Grand Theft Auto -- San Andreas?
10)       And finally, the top thing that annoys me about America... People in America don’t decorate their fence posts with the decapitated heads of Arabs.  Check out these ceramic versions from Sicily:


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On May 28, 2006, at 1:43 PM, xxxx wrote:
Hi, I'm Tom Ferlauto, and I live the "American Dream".
 
I'm just a successful American, and the millions who live below poverty level in my country, the hundreds who are shot on a daily basis and the national ONE-THIRD drop-out rate in high schools today does not concern me - I've got it all!!!
 
You were not bragging, I believe that.  (Congrats, too, btw)  You lead a nice life and there is no reason for you to complain about it. 
 
Me, I just got back from Prague on a visit to Huey.  I drove my 2000 Opel Astra (75 hp) on the Autobahn.  During the visit, I discussed our ongoing "discussion" about stuff, while we DRANK BEER IN A PARK with a wonderful view of the city.  John pointed out that if he wants a prostitute, or wants to bet on a game, or wants to have a picnic in the park and drink a bottle of wine, it is FORBIDDEN in America.  Why?
 
GENOCIDE?:  America all but wiped out an entire continent of native american INDIANS.  Tom, will you teach your beautiful boys the truth?  An entire CONTINENT of native peoples?  Wiped out DEAD?
 
Will you explain to your boys why it was necessary for the white man to drive Indians off of their own lands, slaughter them, starve them, and cheat them?  Will your own boys know how long slavery existed in America?  Will they know how long it took women to get the right to vote?  What a country America is! 
 
Cowboys vs. Indians.  The earliest "american propaganda" - the savages!  INDIANS helped fight the British, the "Patriots" learned alot about "guerilla warfare" (fighting in the woods) from Indians.  And america carried out GENOCIDE on the indians for the following century.  (And the French backed their asses as well)
 
You have lived your whole life in what I call "America, fuck yeah!", and ever since you could attend school and read a book, you have been programmed.  The "Boston Tea Party"?  How delightful.  Try the British tax on RUM.
 
Um, how about the RACISM in america?  The L.A. RIOTS were also "not imaginary".  Neither was Columbine.  Neither was OK City or the D.C. Sniper or the rest of the non-stop DOMESTIC, american violence inside the U.S.
 
ENOUGH!  IT'S OBVIOUS YOU ARE SCARED:  You will not write one word of anti-Americanism because of the threat your own government has implemented about being able to arrest you - not for a crime but, for a crime "they" think you may commit.  You are SCARED your e-mails could be read.  I am not.
 
What does that say about America? 
 
Fascism.  In 2008, you have your MANDATORY national ID card.  They can track you where ever you go. 
 
So yes, Tom, 19 guys (many of whom are still alive) crashed 4 planes simultaneously into America's most protected cities and Osama was the ringleader.  This "fugitive" from the world caused it all.  And then Sleeping Beauty bit the apple, and the 9 dwarves disappeared.
 
"My kids will safely ride in SUV's to their exclusive private school, because America has permitted my wife and I to make alot of money and I can afford to get my kids out of the shitty public schools".
 
Well said.  When I was a kid, I walked to 1st Grade to a damn fine public school.  By myself. 
 
Um, kids all over Austria still do...
 
DR - ps - my kid goes to University for free.  And my child, until age 26, can travel all over Europe really cheap.  ...I was in Turkey in February, but I am not bragging...I live in Europe, 5 years now, and America seems kind of boring - you see the same old shit every day, don't you?  Those Starbucks and McDonalds?  Take a fudgesicle and smear it all over your face - your boys will enjoy this much more than a Happy Meal toy...You own expensive property?  I own "safe" property.  No helicopters overhead, no gunfire - ever.  To each his own...