Re: Letter to a Terrorist

Yep,

that is a reprint from a post by Charles Brennen from South Florida on the 
Trailer Sailor BB. It
pretty much says it all ("Hit The Buildings, Missed America")

Chuck

MacWheel99@aol.com wrote:

> forwarded by MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)
>
> Subject: Letter to terrorist
>
> > 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. 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. 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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