Bermuda Project
Bermuda has been a staunch ally of the United States for over 300 years.
Bermuda has been a success story for many years with an excellent record of democracy (without any prompting from the US....dare I add)
This dependant territory of the UK, another staunch ally of yours, runs its affairs properly and responsibly. This cause is unfortunate because it does not consider all the facts.
It is a pity that you spend time trying to run your friends down, without trying to find out the real facts, and then expect us to support you in time of need. "You are either with us...or not with us" to paraphrase.
I suggest that you might like to start by reading an article in the Bermuda newspaper called The Royal Gazette on
www.theroyalgazette.com (go to the business pages and search for an article of April 15th 2003 entitled "For the 100th time, we are not a tax haven")
I am a very frustrated non-American friend of the US who tries very hard to understand why in the United States you feel that it is necessary to try to destroy the fabric of my country without trying to understand how it works.
We are a peaceful community just 700 miles off your shores. Unlike many countries you have had no trouble from us, you have had only friendship and support. Not one penny, say again, not one penny, of foreign aid have we ever requested, or needed, from the US for over 300 years.
Of the past....you probably are not aware that in the War of Independence you received tangible support from the people of Bermuda, this even whilst we were ruled by London. Before that time are you aware that it was food sent by Bermuda that saved the fledgling Virginia settlements from starvation?
Of the immediate past....US bases and personnel were welcomed on our shores for 50 years from 1945 to 1995 without one case of rancour that the US suffered even in the countries supposedly friendly to it, through the crises of the 50's,60's and 70's, Bermuda played a vital part in the importance of your bases.
Do you think that you could therefore at least give us the chance to explain exactly what role our tiny Island of Bermuda plays on the world stage...or do you plain and simply want the United States to have the only role?
Regretably it seems that with the very naming of this "project" you are bent on severely testing a friendship which must be one of the longest in the entire history of your country. I urge you to re-consider your stance, at least in respect of approaching this issue with open, honest, and fair, minds.
Thank you.
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