> Subject: Hit Building, Missed America
>
>
> > Posted By: Charles Brennan, Windrose 18, So. Florida <ctbren@aol.com>
> > Date: 9/11/2001 9:07p.m.
> >
> > 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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