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From
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THANK YOU AUSTRALIA !
THIS SAYS IT ALL
Written by an Australian Doctor... too
good to delete !
To Kill an American.
You probably missed this in the rush of news, 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!!!!)
An American is English, or French, or Italian,
Irish, German, Spanish, Polish, Russian or Greek. An
American may also be Canadian, Mexican, African,
Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian,
Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or Pakistani or Afghan.
An American may also be a Comanche, Cherokee, Osage,
Blackfoot, Navaho, Apache, Seminole or one of the many
other tribes known as native Americans.
An American is Christian, or he could be Jewish, or
Buddhist, or Muslim. 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.
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.
An American lives in the most prosperous land in the
history of the world.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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 .
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.
So you can try to kill an American
if you must. Hitler did. 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.
Let's Keep this going! !
Pass it around and then pass it around again.
It says it all, for each of us !
Send this Homepage to a friend:
Thanks, Australia
Letter from reader.
Thank you
for your newsletter and website, I enjoy it very
much. I do have a comment regarding the Australian
doctor's response titled 'To Kill An American'. It
was kind and complimentary to Americans. However
the excerpt shown below is, in my opinion, out of
place because it incorrectly assumes that a person
who does not belong to a structured religion does
not have a belief in God; God does not have a
religion! Religions were devised by mankind as
another means of keeping the human race at odds with
each other so that they will be more easily
controlled than if they united. I found true
spiritually and a beautiful one-on-one relationship
with God by shedding the religion that I had
followed for 55 years:
"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".
Sincerely, Ruth Case
The Beat Post International
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