Re: [Leica] Nothing to do with Leicas, just the U.S.

["Rob Appleby" <rob@robertappleby.com>]

Darrell, I know you well enough from previous conversations, I think, to
know that you can do better than posting this kind of fake garbage. The
reference to Afghanistan and the US's involvement is absolutely laughable.
The idea it was written by an Aussie dentist is equally absurd (unless he
was high on novocaine).

R.

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Darrell Jennings" <darrell_jennings@yahoo.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 4:37 PM
Subject: [Leica] Nothing to do with Leicas, just the U.S.


> Well following the thread of complaints about doing
> business in America, I thought I'd pass along the
> following that was written by an Aussie dentist.
>
> I'm not much for the politics of the Democrats or the
> Republicans, or any other political party in the U.S.,
> but somehow we muddle through....
>
> "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 I just thought I would write to let them know what
> an American is, so they would know when they found
> one.
>
>
>
> 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, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or
> Arab, or Pakistani, or Afghan. An American may also be
> a Cherokee, Osage,Blackfoot, Navaho, Apache, 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 is from 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 man and woman 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. When Afghanistan was overrun 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, the best products, the
> best books, the best music, the best food, the best
> athletes. 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, earning a better life for their
> families. I've been told that the World Trade Center
> victims were from at least 30 other 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 every bloodthirsty tyrant in the history
> of 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."
>
>
>
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