Let me preface this by saying that I am not anti-American. I rather like our American cousins: after all, most very cool things come from the states, like Hendrix, star trek, and so on. I love great American writers, like Hemingway and twain. Most of my favourite films were at least funded by US studios. And I still intend to drink cocktails in key west one day.

but last night Luke showed me the most fascist thing I had ever read, and it stemmed from a writer in California. The united states, it argued, should not give relief money to help fund recovery after the tsunami in the Indian ocean because the people there had not earned it. That money belonged to the people of the united states, and had been taken from US citizens. Thus it was not the governments money to give. Since the people of the US wouldnt get anything back, why should their money be given away?

What fool wrote this? Was he even human. Over 100,000 dead, many more needing help, and he still cant see past the nose on his arrogant face! He questions the right of the US government whose swift action on this is surely commendable to give away tax payers money. How this pah tok can even write intelligibly baffles me. Sickening, isnt it?