Why Do They Hate Us?

[Paul Prescod]

Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote:
> 
>...
> Thus, to their benefit, the multinationals lobby congress (who needs
> the multinationals during election years) yet they are not answerable
> to congress.  

Oh really? So Microsoft (for example) could not be harmed by the US
government?

> .... Most have high-percentages of American stock-holders,
> and most still fly Old Glory on their flagpole, but the USA has little
> or no control or jurisdiction over them.  

This is factually incorrect. Insofar as they own a single square foot of
land in the USA, or a single dollar in an American bank, the US
government could confiscate that land or that dollar.

> .... In the developing nations,
> people, largely illiterate and puppetted by those who are literate,
> can only read the Stars and Stripes, and they conclude (wrongly) that
> the USA is their enemy.

That's understandable. I'm more concerned about radical
environmentalists, anarchists and other anti-globalists who have no such
excuse.

 Paul Prescod