AN OPEN LETTER TO TERRORISTS
Anonymously Circulating the Internet
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 cannot 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 from
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, the 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 them 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
fission chain reaction that would eat everything. But they threw
the switch anyway, because we had a War to win.
Does this 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, if I recall correctly. 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, and 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 pain in the ass then (especially in south Florida),
but
you're only the newest pain in the ass, 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.