[W126 Coupe] To Kill An American

[Carl Hansen]

So what's your point??

Maybe we better not ask to many questions about what an American is or some other truths may come up. There's a lot of opnions out there.

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: mary t 
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  Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 12:31 PM
  Subject: Re: [W126 Coupe] Fw: To Kill An American


  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 patien ce 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 wrot e 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, Cher okee, 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.
    < br>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 nationa l 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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