[W126 Coupe] Fw: To Kill An American

[mary t]

Sorry to piss on your parade but have you seen snopes.com Great place to look up fowards like this
 http://www.snopes.com/rumors/america2.htm

Carl Hansen <chansen at cogeco.ca> wrote: I do not usually Forward items that are forwarded me by the hundreds every
day because
I simly do not have the time and patience to go through it all,
but this one sent from my brother in the USA I could not ignore.

Subject: To Kill An American



In response to an ad in a Pakistan newspaper:

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!!!!)

1. An American is English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish,
Polish, Russian or Greek, or a Dane, Swede, a Norwegian, a Finn.
An American may also be Canadian, Mexican, African, Islander or
Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or
Pakistani or Afghan.

2. An American may also be a Comanche, Cherokee, Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho,
Apache, Seminole or one of the many other tribes known as native Americans.

3. An American is Christian, or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim.

4. 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.

5. 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.
6. An American lives in the most prosperous land in the history of the
world.


7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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!

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. These in fact are the people who built America.

13. 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
14. at least 30 different countries, cultures, and first languages,
including
those that aided and abetted the terrorists.

15. So you can try to kill an American if you must.  Hitler did.

16. 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,
then pass it around again!
It says it all,  for all of us!





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