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Open Letter to Terrorist

Bubba JoelBubba Joel Member Posts: 5,161
edited September 2001 in General Discussion
I seen this on another board...... Open Letter to 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. 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.
As John McCain said: May God Have Mercy, Because We Won't... [This message has been edited by Bubba Joel (edited 09-13-2001).]

Comments

  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Right on. Thanks for sharing that.
  • .250Savage.250Savage Member Posts: 812 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You know, this is pretty close to what I was thinking... These losers took out the twin towers, but any yahoo woulda' told you that's not America. And they took out one wall of the Pentagon (no sweat, we got four others), and again, any grunt woulda' told them that ain't the military. If they could have taken out all sixty or so military bases in this country, they might have had a chance. As it was, this was just a symbolic strike, and all they did was make us mad...
    I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.--Voltare
  • will270winwill270win Member Posts: 4,845
    edited November -1
    Damn Skippy!!!!!!
    You can run, but you'll just die tired!Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, RELOAD!
  • competentonecompetentone Member Posts: 4,696 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Just don't want this one to get lost on the older pages.
  • Bubba JoelBubba Joel Member Posts: 5,161
    edited November -1
    This is like when my brother and I were kids. We would have knock down, drag out fights, among ourselves, but when another would get involved, they wouldn't have a chance..They would probably get their butts whipped by both of us...Someone has come to our yard and whipped my brother (and sister), now I want to know where they are.......
  • competentonecompetentone Member Posts: 4,696 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Just bumping this forward again in the hopes that those who may not have read it, will--it really hits the point.
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