Re: Everyone is an american
- Subject: Re: Everyone is an american
- From: m*
- Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 18:59:00 -0000
You were offended by a womans call to a higher sense of humanity and
her horror at the cycle or revenge and retaliation we are in? You
were offended that she deplored the death of innocents regardless of
their nationality or who caused it, even us? You were offended that
she suggested that perhaps our nations past actions could have been
the catalyst for the hatred directed against us? What is so
offensive here?
I thought her opinion was quite thought provoking and a wake up call
to our goverment to be more responsible in its actions and relations
to the rest of the world. According to many reports I have read on
the web Osama Bin Laden was trained in terroist and counter-
insurgency tactics right here in the US at the CIA's School of the
Americas in Georgia. America trained and unleashed this monster (as
well as many others) upon the world, is it a suprise the snake turned
and bit us?
I would ask everyone to stand up for the cause of justice and to
forsake the dead-end path of revenge. The guilty must be brought to
civilized justice under the rule of law. We must not let our pain
and anger cause us to allow more innocents to be harmed in a mad dash
for vengence, nor should we allow our differing viewpoints on the
whole affair to fracture our unity as people of conscience and
freedom.
Patricia, I understood what you were saying and I concur. I too hope
this event will restore our national soul and bring us to a higher
compassion for all human life.
Mike Unser
Olympia, WA
--- In iris-talk@y..., cgdawn@c... wrote:
> I am glad someone else was offended. I found her whole message
> deplorable. It takes the loss of this magnitude to make her soul
> whole?????? Is she a implant from the mid-east?
>
> Dean Gray
> Mid-America
> Just south of St. Louis, Mo. USA
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> -- In iris-talk@y..., William Wells <wells@t...> wrote:
> > Patricia,
> >
> > Of all the comments that I have heard in the last several days,
your
> > quote below is the most offensive. I am appalled.
> >
> > Bill Wells
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> > pbrooks@w... wrote:
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> > > Theo,
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> > "This belated consequence, as I can't but see it, horrific as it
> is, has
> > a kind of inevitability, even justice, to it"
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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