Baseball Guru
09-13-2001, 01:21 PM
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. He 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...
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. He 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...