An Open Letter To A Terrorist

[Harvey A. Kader]

Hey guys, here is a letter I obtained from one of my groups I belong to.
Read it CAREFULLY. It is especially dedicated to those of you who still
stubbornly don't believe that we are at war(even though President Bush
said today that we are at war), and to those of you who still don't
believe that the Arabs did this act(even though the airplane list of
passengers shows that the hijackers were from Egypt and Saudi Arabia).

>  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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