Another Day on Nowpublic.com

by gmony714 | August 27, 2007 at 09:29 pm
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I woke up early to check my headline about Nick Hogans car accident and something hit me like a ton of bricks. I was beginning to realize that the Anti American posts on nowpublic were everywhere. From life to opinions to culture to politics to weather to sports. Everywhere!!! I saw myself rushing from post to post defending my country like I thought anyone else would. I started to get frustrated and started to make enemies of people I did not know. Some of the things posters where saying were cruel with real hate towards my country. Whatever the story was the angle was Americas fault, those Americans suck. This was coming from Canadians, Germans, British everywhere. if you never met an American and read that days posts on nowpublic you would think Americans are the scum of the earth. you would think Americans are the most selfish people on the planet when the opposite is true. Americans donate more money and food and freedom to the world than any other country. It’s open season on Americans. these are some of the things that bothered me most.

Why all the concern for the cost of the war? it's not like they are being taxed. Americans pay taxes or if the middle class Americans can pay their mortgages pointed out by non Americans like if they really care. The constant reminder of how many Americans have been killed and injured in Iraq. We know, it’s our soldiers almost 3,800 have given their lives for a noble cause regardless of how effed up those in power are. Or if the evil Bush gives whoever he feels like a contract. I don’t see any Americans up in here trashing Canadians or those from England as a group. If the tables were turned I'm sure many Canadians would freak out. But post after post I see Canadians and others trashing the U.S. Trashing our military. They try to say it's your Government we hate not Americans. Like we haven't heard that before. Some of the worst  say I haven't noticed an Anti American Bias and I say because you are too busy producing it. The Democrats made a fatal mistake attacking Bush with hatred at home and abroad. Those family arguments about the war should have been behind closed doors. If you are in a fight with your neighbors and you go next door and trash your family you gave them license to do the same.

I may not agree with Bush on much but he is the commander and we are at war with true savages. And Americans, Canadians. the British are one way or another targets in the field. And what do we have? Constant complaining by people who use their keypads to attack Bush, why did we go to Iraq? were are the weapons of mass destruction? Bush lied, Americans are the real enemy. bla, bla, bla. The terrorists must love it. Get it thru your heads neither Dems or Rep. are going to pull our troops out of Iraq within the next three years. The talk about pulling out troops is for the Election. they know if we leave it will be a bloodbath that will make the one now look like childsplay. The Dems know this. I would be surprised if we are not at war with Iran within six months. Israel will not let Iran build a nuke, do you think they are crazy. Bush is setting it up right now.

The other day I noticed that Anything negative to destroy moral was rushed to the front page so all can take a cheap shot. Treasonous blogs by unknown so called soldiers were posted “Good Stuff” war accidents were put up like I told you so, instead of with a little respect for the dead. Conspiracy nuts posting that Americans killed their own people on 9/11. And I find that I am the only one confronting them. Opinion pieces praising the tyrant Fidel Castro are met with “great story” interviews with Mexican Nazis are greeted like the interviewer should get a Pulitzer Prize. Members of hate groups treated like awesome intellectuals. Wow ain’t that a bitch. I think that those who created Nowpublic are geniuses and freedom of expression the most sacred of freedoms. So i will continue to defend my country even if I make some enemies. And I ask my fellow Crowd powered journalists to give the US a little break because it might get worse from here for our brave men and women who thru no fault of their own find themselves in the belly of the beast. As for me Tomorrow will be another day on Nowpublic.

P.S Maybe some of those Anti American Canadians do not know how American they really are.

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urbano411
urbano411
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at 07:54 on August 28th, 2007

gmony714, I like this story. It's good stuff. I have to admit that there is great anti-USA sentiment posted here, but Now Public is still in its infancy. And let's be real about this gmony, we could say the same about most news content in the US.  Realistically Now Public surely has Wall Street intentions. So this is the direction (anti-USA) that best excites NewsCorp to make Now Public a potential acquistion. If your looking for people who love the USA this is probably not the place you'll find it. However, maybe you should be considering ways to get more diverse opinions to be part of Now Public. Sounds to me like this could be an interesting place to show the outside world what Americans many opinions are instead of mostly hearing it from outsiders.

As for the Canadians keep in mind that everything in Canada is PERFECT, so they have all the right to say what ever they want about America.

reednews
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at 10:20 on August 28th, 2007

gmony714, I like this story. It's good stuff. I have noticed the Anti American feeling here since I joined nowpublic also but it seems to be a the few same people using the sight for a political agenda rather than news gathering. you keep up the good work gmony your perspective on latinos is why I like reading your stories.

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crissy333

Urbano411 your insight is great I am new also to nowpublic and gmony you are right there is some anti American posts that upset me too. But i try not to lend much attention to it. It is a group that has that mindset and they seem very bias in their choice of news.

crissy333
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at 10:39 on August 28th, 2007

gmony714, I like this story. It's good stuff.

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ryan

gmony714. you raise some interesting points here. the key though is to ensure that all (yes, even those one may disagree with) feel comfortable expressing their opinions. as an open forum  it is natural that discussion and disagreements emerge, however the challenge to have respect as our priority -  for if we lose that individuals will no longer feel comfortable with expressing themselves and this forum for open ideas will be lost too.

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gmony714

Ryan thank you for your comment and i'm glad there is an editor who took interest in my concerns again thank you.

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René

Thanks for standing up for US! American-bashers are Toadying up to the ISLAMICs. Don't you get it?

Bush really has got a lot of it right, but gets no credit.

As far as the missing WMDs, they had a lot of time to hide them in their vast deserts and across the borders. Just cuz they haven't found them doesn't mean they did not exist.

And as for terrorists following us home: Has anyone noticed what is happening in Europe, in France, etc? Don't tell me they didn't follow them home. Every single country over there is cowed by the Islamic fanatics they allowed in.

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gmony714

Thanks Rene I know I ruffled some feathers here thanks for the comment.

erick da chef
erick da chef
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at 11:30 on August 30th, 2007

gmony714, I like this story. It's good stuff.

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