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Skriven 2007-02-01 22:28:16 av Gary Braswell (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 26709 av Mimi Gallandt (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Presidential race
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Mimi Gallandt -> Gary Braswell wrote:
 MG> 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
 MG> 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
 MG> the
 GB>> world lives in squalor and tyranny.

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

 GB>> I often wonder if we deserve them.

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


I know. The willful ignorance and indifference of most is embarrassing at
times.

-- 
"We are safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the
night to visit violence on those who would do us harm."- George Orwell

"For those dreams taken, here are a few nightmares."
Written on a bomb dropped on Tora Bora.

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