This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------6EE8ADEFA63B483EB5058F79 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------6EE8ADEFA63B483EB5058F79 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: from smtppop3pub.verizon.net (smtppop3pub.gte.net [206.46.170.22]) by bn3.blue.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f8KLF3a27531 for <dvhouch@scrtc.com>; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 16:15:03 -0500 (CDT) Received: from verizon.net (lsanca1-ar1-4-35-010-011.lsanca1.dsl.gtei.net [4.35.10.11]) by smtppop3pub.verizon.net with ESMTP ; id QAA9305316 Thu, 20 Sep 2001 16:14:43 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3BAA5C6B.4BAF9754@verizon.net> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 14:15:23 -0700 From: "herman L. brav" <res0bj07@verizon.net> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: An open letter to a terrorist: Please pass on Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 > > > 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, 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. > > 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! --------------6EE8ADEFA63B483EB5058F79--