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We don't live in America, America lives in US!
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Thu, 13 Sep 2001 17:51:49 GMT
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Date: 9/11/2001
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, IIRC. 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 PITA then (especially in south Florida), but
you're only the newest PITA, 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.
- Charles Brennan
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| "Matthew Gerber" <matthew@digitaliris.com> wrote in message news:GJM4AD.FL7@lugnet.com... (...) Great. So us English are bullies are we? Cast in the same light as the terrorists of today. And you want us to stand along side you? Nice way to start (...) (23 years ago, 13-Sep-01, to lugnet.general)
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