THOUGHT YOU ALL MIGHT LIKE TO READ THIS THAT WAS PASSED ON TO ME;
-Doug Anderson ,in NeuYaWK
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 cannot 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, easygoing 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, DC 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....
***************** BUT REMEMBER: *********************
" They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin
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