Here is a bit of fluff and bluff that is currently making the rounds. Some
of it I even agree with.
Especially the first paragraph.
xponent
rob
> > An open letter to a terrorist:
> >
> > Well, you hit the World Trade Center, but you missed
> > America. You hit the Pentagon, but you missed America. You used helpless
> > American bodies, to take out other American bodies, but like a poor
> > marksman, you STILL missed America.
> >
> > Why? Because of something you guys will never
> > understand. America isn't about a building or two, not about financial
> > centers, not about military centers, America isn't about a place,
> > America
> > isn't even about a bunch of bodies. America is about an IDEA. An idea,
> > that
> > you can go someplace where you can earn as much as you can figure out
> > how
> > to, live for the most part, like you envisioned living, and pursue
> > Happiness. (No guarantees that you'll reach it, but you can sure try!)
> >
> > Go ahead and whine your terrorist whine, and chant
> > your terrorist litany: "If you can not see my point, then feel my pain."
> > This concept is alien to Americans. We live in a country where we don't
> > have
> > to see your point. But you're free to have one. We don't have to listen
> > to
> > your speech. But you're free to say one. Don't know where you got the
> > strange idea that everyone has to agree with you. We don't agree with
> > each
> > other in this country, almost as a matter of pride. We're a collection
> > of
> > guys that don't agree, called States. We united our individual states to
> > protect ourselves from tyranny in the world. Another idea, we made up on
> > the
> > spot. You CAN make it up as you go, when it's your country.
> >
> > If you're free enough.
> >
> > Yeah, we're fat, sloppy, easy-going goofs most of
> > the time. That's an unfortunate image to project to the world, but it
> > comes
> > of feeling free and easy about the world you live in. It's unfortunate
> > too,
> > because people start to forget that when you attack Americans, they tend
> > to
> > fight like a cornered badger. The first we knew of the War of 1812, was
> > when
> > England burned Washington D.C. to the ground. Didn't turn out like
> > England
> > thought it was going to, and it's not going to turn out like you think,
> > either. Sorry, but you're not the first bully on our shores, just the
> > most
> > recent.
> >
> > No Marquis of Queensbury rules for Americans,
> > either. We were the FIRST and so far, only country in the world to use
> > nuclear weapons in anger. Horrific idea, nowadays? News for you bucko,
> > it
> > was back then too, but we used it anyway. Only had two of them in the
> > whole
> > world and we used 'em both. Grandpa Jones worked on the Manhattan
> > Project.
> > Told me once, that right up until they threw the switch, the physicists
> > were
> > still arguing over whether the Uranium alone would fission, or whether
> > it
> > would start a fissioning chain reaction that would eat everything. But
> > they
> > threw the switch anyway, because we had a War to win. Does that tell you
> > something about American Resolve?
> >
> > So who just declared War on us? It would be nice to
> > point to some real estate, like the good old days. Unfortunately, we're
> > probably at war with random camps, in far-flung places. Who think
> > they're
> > safe. Just like the Barbary Pirates did. They were wrong. So are you.
> > Better
> > start sleeping with one eye open.
> >
> > There's a spirit that tends to take over people who
> > come to this country, looking for opportunity, looking for liberty,
> > looking
> > for freedom. Even if they misuse it. The Marielistas that Castro emptied
> > out of his prisons, were overjoyed to find out how
> > much freedom there was. First thing they did when they hit our shores,
> > was
> > run out and buy guns. The ones that didn't end up dead, ended up in
> > prisons.
> > It was a big problem then (especially in south Florida). We solved that
> > problem. As for you, you're only the newest problem, not the first.
> >
> > You guys seem to be incapable of understanding that
> > we don't live in America, America lives in US! American Spirit is what
> > it's
> > called. And killing a few thousand of us, or a few million of us, won't
> > change it. Most of the time, it's a pretty happy-go-lucky kind of
> > Spirit.
> > Until we're crossed in a cowardly manner, then it becomes an entirely
> > different kind of Spirit.
> >
> > Wait until you see what we do with that Spirit, this time.
> >
> > Sleep tight, if you can. We're coming.
> >
>
>
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