Can anyone explain to me why the only certifiable, full-blown, psychotic
loonies in this newsgroup are American?


Here we go again! Another America sucks thread. Please Brian, tell us why.

I enjoy shortwave listening as a casual hobby, it's not life-and-death
for me. And I come to this newsgroup occasionally to pick up on the
rare bits of valuable info concerning shortwave programming and related
stuff -- you know, the "whale song", HAARP, military comms, etc. Again,
not life-and-death for me, it's just for fun.

But even a casual visitor to this newsgroup will note that its topic --
shortwave radio, remember -- attracts a lot of mentally-ill people. Any
casual visitor to this group knows the names, there's no need to repeat
them now, I'm not trying to embarrass anyone. And, any casual listener
to shortwave programming knows that it, too, attracts a lot of
mentally-ill people, both broadcasters and, I assume, their listeners.
The part that bothers me is, with the exception of the very-polished
propaganda broadcasters from failing communist regimes, all of the loony
programming is from US sources. And all of the truly demented posters
here are American. Maybe I'm wrong, I don't know, but it's bad enough
that it bothers me a little. This can't go unnoticed by the rest of the
world, and if their impressions of America are based even a little bit
on things that they hear from Pastor Peters, Brother Stair, David Smith,
etc., etc., or the nuts in this group, then we've got a problem.