How I became a target for America's zealotsBy Anita Roddick
26 September 2002
The Guardian.
Wow. When just before 11 September this year, The Independent asked me to pen a response to the question "What has changed since 11 September 2002?", I had no idea what my musings would cost. I innocently - perhaps naively - wrote about what I think is the main change in America since that horrible day. I wrote about the suppression of public dissent and the erosion of civil liberties in the United States, which as I see it are among the most dire threats that country now faces. Little did I know that I was about to experience exactly how fearfully limited public debate in America really is.
Somehow, my expression of dismay was twisted in a highly selective retelling in the New York Post, a right-wing tabloid, as "an America-loathing diatribe. Little... in the foreign press outside al-Jazeera comes close to Roddick's viciousness". I was astonished to read that I was suddenly a supporter of terrorism and a hater of Americans and devastated at the idea that any American would assume that I was not outraged by the barbaric attacks of 11 September.
So let me just be absolutely clear about this - I hate terrorism and I hate terrorists.
I have a deep admiration for much that is American. My grandparents emigrated to America. My father was born in America. My daughter lives in America. I had assumed that my sorrow for 11 September went without saying. And I have repeatedly couched my criticism of President Bush in the context of this admiration. It's as though, as I leapt to America's defence, some people - perhaps rattled by a year of terrorism warnings and haunting memories - assumed I was going for its throat.
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Old article, but full of stupidity whininess. Someone is crying, "The sky is falling!" Anita Roddick is a whiny crybaby and drama queen.
Someone call the Whambulance.
Anita Roddick is a big time moonbat that hates America. Here are some links.
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