Re: Everyone is an american
- Subject: Re: Everyone is an american
- From: p*@whidbey.net
- Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 22:31:13 -0000
Mike,
Thank you so much for your eloquent agreement with my remarks in the
wake of the recent terrible tragedies.
I hope, though, that everyone will respond to my e-mail site in the
future -- both pro and con. I was wrong to post my message on iris-
talk, and I hope we will not use that forum to continue this
discussion.
With good will to all,
Patricia Brooks
-- In iris-talk@y..., "mike" <land_of_mu@y...> wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -- 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
> > >
> > > pbrooks@w... wrote:
> > >
> > > > Theo,
> > >
> > > "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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