To Kill An American

[The One and Only Mo]

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 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, Cherokee, ?Osage, Blackfoot, 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. ?
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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.