Subject: To Kill An American
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> Written by an Australian Dentist...
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> 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 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. Americans welcome the best of
> everything...the best products, the best books, the best music, the best
> food, the best services. 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. 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.
>
> Please keep this going!
> Pass this around the World ?