Post by doc on Mar 4, 2020 21:49:54 GMT
I was looking for something else but came across an 'open letter to terrorists' that had to be written back following 9/11....some of this is pretty funny in spite of the horrible tragedy that spawned it's writing....here we go....
"To those extremists that perpetrated this horrible crime against our nation, I have a warning for you. There are those of us who look at your actions as irrational, twisted and completely inhuman. By all measures what you have done can only be seen as gutless and insane.
We have news for you. We're more nut's than you and it should scare you to death. You may think that when you die for a cause, you go to Paradise with 72 virgins, can leave reservations for 70 members of your family, all your sins will be forgiven and you'll sit at the side of Allah. WE had 39 guys rent a mansion in California, built a website, hacked off their balls and proceeded to poison themselves to death in order to hitch a ride with aliens on the Hale Bopp Comet.
You shoot guns into the sky to celebrate victories over enemies and people are killed by the bullets raining down. We not only do this for New Years Eve in some cities, we burn down houses, tear up streets, loot and sack stores and beat ourselves senseless when our sports teams win championships.
We made a sequel to Police Academy 5....
We gave an award for singing to two guys who never even sang...
We put little sweaters on dogs....
We shot John Lennon and didn't even aim at Yoko Ono....
We think Elvis is still alive...
We put Braille on drive-up automatic teller machines....
We sell hot dogs in packages of 10 and buns in packages of 8....
We've managed to keep the formulas for Coca-Cola and Kentucky Fried Chicken secret for decades, yet we've given away our most important nuclear secrets to China and Russia at the drop of a hat.
Freedom's kind of a crazy, kooky, nutty thing when you look really close at it and the loony things that can result from it, but it's better than any other ideas anybody else has come up with. It's been that way since 1776 and built to last no matter how insanely we try to screw it up on a daily basis.
Picking a fight with the most insane nation on Earth with the hope that your message and influence will spread throughout the world, well, that's just downright stupid and you will pay the consequences."
"To those extremists that perpetrated this horrible crime against our nation, I have a warning for you. There are those of us who look at your actions as irrational, twisted and completely inhuman. By all measures what you have done can only be seen as gutless and insane.
We have news for you. We're more nut's than you and it should scare you to death. You may think that when you die for a cause, you go to Paradise with 72 virgins, can leave reservations for 70 members of your family, all your sins will be forgiven and you'll sit at the side of Allah. WE had 39 guys rent a mansion in California, built a website, hacked off their balls and proceeded to poison themselves to death in order to hitch a ride with aliens on the Hale Bopp Comet.
You shoot guns into the sky to celebrate victories over enemies and people are killed by the bullets raining down. We not only do this for New Years Eve in some cities, we burn down houses, tear up streets, loot and sack stores and beat ourselves senseless when our sports teams win championships.
We made a sequel to Police Academy 5....
We gave an award for singing to two guys who never even sang...
We put little sweaters on dogs....
We shot John Lennon and didn't even aim at Yoko Ono....
We think Elvis is still alive...
We put Braille on drive-up automatic teller machines....
We sell hot dogs in packages of 10 and buns in packages of 8....
We've managed to keep the formulas for Coca-Cola and Kentucky Fried Chicken secret for decades, yet we've given away our most important nuclear secrets to China and Russia at the drop of a hat.
Freedom's kind of a crazy, kooky, nutty thing when you look really close at it and the loony things that can result from it, but it's better than any other ideas anybody else has come up with. It's been that way since 1776 and built to last no matter how insanely we try to screw it up on a daily basis.
Picking a fight with the most insane nation on Earth with the hope that your message and influence will spread throughout the world, well, that's just downright stupid and you will pay the consequences."