miltiades wrote:GR's intoxication with anti American posts is not a matter of critic but a matter of pure hatred against America. We can all be critical of any nation , I have on numerous occasions criticized the RoC concerning many issues .
What this man does is to unceasingly rummage the net looking for any demeaning and slanderous remarks / reports on the USA , Britain , Israel and other Western nation. I have yet to see a post of his that is constractive to the Cyprob.
He advocates war as the ONLY option in solving the Cyprus issue an act that would totaly destroy Cyprus and render it a third world nation for years to come , not forgetting the 10s of thousands that could perish .
He is a bloody menace as far as I'm concerned , one that would not hesitate to cause a bloody revolution in order to satisfy his warped fantasies.
There are many like him in Cyprus of the same pedigree that caused Cyprus's most enormous catastrophe in history
anxious to prove that they can still cause mayhem and destruction.
I support the West staunchly because I beleive that Cyprus's interests are best served by close attachment to the West , it does not translate acceptance of all that the West does but it does mean that protecting our interests and promoting them must take priority above all else. Throughout our short political history as an independent nation we succumbed to a myriad of political blunders not least our reluctance to accept the Zurich agreements and give them a chance to function , from day one we announced that the Zurich agreements were unworkable. We forged allegiances with weak ineffective nations ignoring the powers that could be instrumental in ensuring the survival of our nation in its embryonic state.
LONG LIVE AMERICA THE GREATEST NATION ON EARTH ( AFTER CYPRUS )
Actually Miltiades, I don't believe that GR! 'hates' the USA or Israel or 'the West' as you claim. My interpretation of his threads and posts which you proclaim as 'anti-West' is that he is using one of the most important values within Western democracy, the right to free speech, to point out unfair and unjust actions of some Western nations towards less fortunate nations, societies and individuals. These unfair and unjust actions are designed to maintain the advantages Western nations have over the rest of the world - increased financial, diplomatic and military clout allowing access to, and control of, vital resources necessary to maintain the standard of living of those same societies. And this results in suppression of the poorer and weaker nations and their peoples........
If one was to step back and consider the utopian view that each individual on the face of this planet has equal right to resources, healthcare, education, opportunities, etc then the current situation, where the rich and powerful dictate the destinies of the poor and weak, is indefensible. I know a GC lady who lives in one of the largest metropolitan areas in the USA, who maintains that she couldn't live without her 3.5 litre SUV! Huge amounts of 'gas' consumed for the short trip to the air-conditioned mall....... Imagine the geopolitical machinations that occur in order for her to maintain this lifestyle, let alone the environmental damage!
And I can't believe that any GC would support Israel in its land-grabbing from Palestinians, particularly when they are themselves still suffering from the effects of invasion and ethnic cleansing.
My reading of GR!s posts is that they are primarily to point out that political and military decisions by powerful western nations often have deleterious humanitarian consequences for the weak and suppressed. I also believe you make a mistake in linking his 'anti-West' posts with those on CyProb, just because you do not agree with him on either.
So, no, I would not support any move on this forum which prevented GR! having freedom to express his opinions (and often he is only providing links to informative articles), even if you do not agree with them. You can't on the one hand proclaim the USA to be 'the greatest nation on earth' and on the other propose suppression of free speech, supposedly one of the most important tenets of western democracy.
