To Kill An American
Don't know where this came from...but
"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
More..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, Eskimo, Ojibwe, Cherokee, Muckleshoot, Blackfoot, Hawiian, 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. 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." Less..
Added: Jul 2 2009 In: citizen_journalism
Recorded on: Jul 2 2009
By: morpheus27 
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Well, the story is totally false (http://www.snopes.com/rumors/america2.asp) but the idea behind it still very cool.
Posted Jul-2-2009 by "wags" (R)
Freedom.
(copywritten by America)
doesn't have a nice ring to it.... sorry..
Posted Jul-2-2009 by "BlackJackBob" (R)
Killing us won't kill the idea, and the ideals of America are what they hate. We fall short of those ideals too often, but so does every other people, and our failures are better than Islam's successes.
Posted Jul-2-2009 by "ericredbeard" (R)
"Everybody is an american except the democrats and the president of the United States!"
if he put that part in he'd have canceled out the point he was trying to make and been a right-wing partisan like you
Posted Jul-2-2009 by "lasrever" Premium
we're not homogenized and standardized enough, as a country, to be called any one race or culture. the person who wrote this essay is correct
you can't really kill an American for being American. America is an amalgam of every other culture that has become part of it
Posted Jul-2-2009 by "lasrever" Premium
and an arab :)
Posted Jul-2-2009 by "path2" (R)
(copywritten by America)
doesn't have a nice ring to it.... sorry..
Freedom wasn't created by our founders. No one is trying to take credit for that but rather stating the right to freedom and defending that freedom.
Posted Jul-2-2009 by "morpheus27" (R)
"Everybody is an american except the democrats and the president of the United States!"
if he put that part in he'd have canceled out the point he was trying to make and been a right-wing partisan like you
Bingo beat me to it.
Posted Jul-2-2009 by "path2" (R)
Keep americans in North america. In the rest of the world we take care of ourselves...
Posted Jul-2-2009 by "bimbambum" (R)
Please kill all the dumb Americans. Start with the guy who commented that the pres and dems are not Amercian. He's sick. And must be culled.
Posted Jul-2-2009 by "zorro869" (R)
sounds like some propaganda bullshit to me
Posted Jul-2-2009 by "tilda140" (R)
"Everybody is an american except the democrats and the president of the United States!"
hey retard, learn to spell before you share your childish thoughts.
Posted Jul-2-2009 by "tilda140" (R)
I'm fine with that idea, personally - our problem is too many people bring their backward and ignorant thinking here once we are foolish enough to let them immigrate from whatever third-rate countries most of them are from.
Posted Jul-2-2009 by "Beinrich_Bimmler" (R)
Very Nice!!!
Posted Jul-3-2009 by "mdp1nvegas" (R)
Me too!
Posted Jul-3-2009 by "skintwin" (R)