Text 26709, 80 rader
Skriven 2007-02-01 09:20:04 av Mimi Gallandt (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 26690 av Gary Braswell (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Presidential race
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Gary Braswell -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 GB> Mimi Gallandt -> Gary Braswell wrote:
 MG>> Gary Braswell -> John Massey wrote:
 GB>>> John Massey -> Gary Braswell wrote:
 JM>>>> Gary Braswell -> John Hull wrote:


 GB>>>>> Out or in, they were gunning down unarmed people trying to cross a
 GB>>>>> border who by and large, had no malign intent towards the nation.

 JM>>>> IF they had had "no malign intent" then the bastards should COME
 GB> HERE
 JM>>>> LEGALLY.
 JM>>>> Anything other than that shoot then.

 GB>>> With your belly full, a good job, no squalor, no corruption to deal
 MG>> with
 GB>>> and health, its easy to say that.

 GB>>> Its being refugees. We suffer the phenomenon of refugees since we
 GB> live
 GB>>> next to a poor, corrupt country.

 GB>>> Refugees flee war, famine, pestilence, poverty, etc.

 GB>>> That is why they come here.

 GB>>> Most come here to a democracy where they can work and make a
 MG>> living, not
 GB>>> take over by force of arms or attack the US.

 GB>>> That is no malign intent.

 GB>>> They come to the land of opportunity and want the American dream.

 GB>>> Most when they are caught, meekly give in to the authorities. They
 MG>> don't
 GB>>> fight or kill. They go back home and try to get in again.

 GB>>> That is why they should not be shot, especially since we can take
 MG>> other
 GB>>> measures.

 MG>> One wonders what you personally did to become a citizen of the US?
 GB> Me? I
 MG>> was born here, but of course, I had no choice in that, I'm one of the
 MG>> lucky ones as are a vast majority of American citizens. Sadly far too
 MG>> many Americans take being an American for granted, they are not
 GB> grateful
 MG>> to all those who willingly serve us; they call GIs "baby killer" and
 MG>> policemen "pigs"; they don't appreciate that GIs, police and
 GB> firemen put
 MG>> their *LIVES* on the line for us, most of us are complete strangers to
 MG>> these guys but do it for us anyway.


 GB> I thank God every day for being born in the US. Most of the rest of the
 GB> world lives in squalor and tyranny.

 GB> I also thank God for those who put their lives on the line for us. Their
 GB> actions often bring me to tears.

 GB> I often wonder if we deserve them.

You are definitely the exception to the rule, it seems like most Americans not
only don't wonder if we deserve them but think they owe it to us. and people
wonder about the moniker "ugly American". :(

-- 
L'Chaim

Mimi

In the beginning
the Word already was.

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