re: avoiding German automobiles

[Tessie McMillan <tessmc@domain.elided>]

> the idea of buying an automobile from a company, &
> to a lesser extent some of the same people, who
> greatly profitted from slave labor & murder, in the
> goal of murder & enslavement of the rest of the world,
> will forever keep me from owning a mb, bmw, porsh or (ford).

	I don't think it's fair to point fingers; it is hard to 
find groups/countries that have not committed some kind of atrocity in the 
name of xenophobia. The father of my best friend from high school as a 
young man was involved somehow in the long march (my apologies, I cannot 
remember what this was called) in the Philippines by the Japanese during 
the war. I cannot remember whether he was a Philippine soldier or one of 
those forced to walk. In any case, he kept a very tiny diary and had only 
the energy to draw pictures of the atrocities he encountered. The Chinese 
endured similar hardships, and I have had a number of Chinese friends who 
therefore will not buy Japanese automobiles. Likewise to single out the 
"Germans" isn't fair. Maybe it is better that we drop this topic, and 
strive always to be better -- rather than ostracizing people or 
companies whose forefathers have made some disastrous mistakes. In my own 
life, I've made some huge ones, and these have always led to better things 
and a better outlook on life.

Tess

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