To Kill An American
> You probably missed it in the rush of news last week, but there was
actually a report that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper ,
an appeal to kill Americans and offered a reward for those who would kill
any American. So an Australian dentist wrote the following to let
everyone know what an American is, so they would know one when they found
one.
> (Good on ya, mate!!!!)
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> 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 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.
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> An American is from 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 the
pursuit of happiness.
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> An American is generous. Americans have helped out just about every
other nation in the world in their time of need. When Afghanistan was
overrun 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.
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> Americans welcome the best, the best products, the best books, the best
music, the best food, the best athletes. But they also welcome the least.
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. I've been told that the
World Trade Center victims were from at least 30 other countries,
cultures, and first languages, including those that aided and abetted the
terrorists.
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> So you can try to kill an American if you must. Hitler did. So did
General Tojo, and Stalin, and Mao Tse-Tung, and every bloodthirsty tyrant
in the history of 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.
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> Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an American.
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> Could it be that Not everyone hates Americans?
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