from a forum

"dear b--------------,

"just so you know better. this country have never lacked self critisism and freedom of speech. as a matter of fact, these are the strongest guards of american democracy and always omni present in society here. i have read and participated myself on this on going civic american habit of self critisism often. all your links are american authored which shows the contridiction of your claims and suggestions.

"your outlook is injustice to our efforts here, trying to change things in our government, military, industrial and foreign policies so the world is a better place. it is not easy to be an american citizen. we are not a quite bunch of opressed people and our strength comes from our collective self critisism. know that. there is no place on earth self critisism takes a voice as it does here.
contrary to global belief, we are not a nation of self loathing people and we don't stop critisising until the problems are adressed and discussed.

"this is a big nation of real people. we have problems as we have solutions. most of our solutions come from questioning the authority. this tradition of americans often ignored by the rest of the world, who often celebrate our failing moves. each time there is a disaster of this scale, there are fuck ups and mismanegement, whats new? we don't have a very good leader right now but we had good ones in the past and that will happen again as it always does. read our constitution. it will give you goose bumps and tears to your eyes. this is an innovative and forward nation and unafraid to fail. whole world is expecting us to be always perfect, forgetting that we are also human beings and evolving.

"i am not a flag flashing citizen here, but it is about time the rest of the world starts to know who americans are and gives us support to make things better. because we can ..."