[W126 Coupe] To Kill An American

Wed Feb 15 14:09:15 EST 2006

The point was that the letter you are passing  is a known urban legend, not even true, and in general junk. Personally I have seen this same email in various forms over 3 years. If you have an opinion to express do it in a more meaningful manner, pass on news articles, write a letter and pass it on, whatever, but that type of foward is irritatingly junk and falls into the same genre as "my dog died from swiffer sweeper" and "some child has cancer if you pass it on she will be cured". Chain mail.  So I was just trying to impress upon you that it isnt really polite netiquette and in the future perhaps it would be a great idea to check if information is junk or not, snopes.com is very easy to use. 

Carl Hansen <chansen at cogeco.ca> wrote:       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.

 CC

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   From:    mary    t 
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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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