Item #01 - posted on 12/20/09
Written by an Australian Dentist
To Kill an
American
You probably
missed this in the rush of news, but there was actually a report that someone
in Pakistan had published in a newspaper,
an offer of a reward to anyone who killed an American, any American.
So an
Australian dentist wrote an editorial the following day to let everyone know
what an American is . So they would know when they
found one. (Good one, mate!!!!)
'An American is
English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish ,
Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may also be Canadian, Mexican, African,
Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or
Pakistani or Afghan.
An American may
also be a Comanche, Cherokee, Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho,
Apache, Seminole or one of the many other tribes known as native
Americans.
An American
is Christian , or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or
Muslim. In fact, there are more Muslims in America than in Afghanistan . The only difference is that in America they are free to worship as each
of them chooses.
An American is also free to believe in no religion..... For that he will
answer only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming to speak
for the government and for God.
An American
lives in the most prosperous land in the history of the world. The root of that prosperity can be
found in the Declaration of Independence , which recognizes the
God given right of each person to the pursuit of happiness.
An American
is generous. Americans have helped out just about every other nation in the
world in their time of need, never asking a thing in return.........
When Afghanistan
was over-run by the Soviet army 20 years ago, Americans came with arms and
supplies to enable the people to win back their country!
As of the
morning of September 11, Americans had given more than any other nation to the
poor in Afghanistan ....
The national
symbol of America , The Statue of Liberty , welcomes your tired and your
poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the homeless, tempest tossed.
These in fact are the people who built America
Some of
them were working in the Twin Towers the morning of September 11 , 2001 earning a better life for their
families. It's been told that the World Trade Center victims were from at least 30
different countries, cultures, and first languages, including those that aided
and abetted the terrorists.
So you can try to kill an American if you must..
Hitler did. So did General Tojo , and Stalin , and Mao Tse-Tung,
and other blood-thirsty tyrants in the world. But, in doing so you would just
be killing yourself . Because
Americans are not a particular people from a particular place. They are
the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds to that
spirit, everywhere, is an American.
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