To Kill an American
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>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.
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>So an Australian dentist wrote the following to let everyone know what
>an American is ... so they would know 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.
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>An American may also be Canadian, Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese,
>Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Iraqi, Turkish, Asian, or Arab, or
>Pakistani, or
>Afghan.
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>An American may also be a Comanche, Cherokee, Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho,
>Apache, Seminole or one of the many other tribes known as native Americans.
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>An American is Christian, or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim.
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>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.
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>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 lives in the most prosperous land in the history of the world.
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>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.
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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, never asking a thing in
>return.
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>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!
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>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 of everything ? the best products, the best
>books, the best music, the best food, the best services. But they also
>welcome the least.
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>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.
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>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.
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>So you can try to kill an American if you must.
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>Hitler did.
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>So did General Tojo, and Stalin, and Mao Tse-Tung, and other
>blood-thirsty tyrants in the world.
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>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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>Author unknown
