[Peace] [illinoisgreens] A Modest Proposal (fwd)

[Jim Buell]

Couldn't resist forwarding this wicked little satire.

jb




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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 08:37:08 -0500
To: illinoisgreens at yahoogroups.com, GreenMovement at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [illinoisgreens] A Modest Proposal

Dear Green Friends,

	My wife Paula has a gift for satire. She wanted me to share this modest
proposal with you. It does have a certain logic to it, no?


>
>    2 weeks after the tragic attacks at the World Trade Center and the
>Pentagon, the American people are being pumped to avenge the deaths of
>thousands of people.  The president has spoken in terms of revenge from the
>very first.  He has promised to go after and kill those responsible for
>supporting and harboring terrorists, even going so far as to talk of
>assasination of leaders of countries which "harbor terrorists".
>    So far, the administration hasn't made it clear exactly to whom they
are referring,
>except of course, for Osama Bin Laden.  Unfortunately, they don't know where
>he is, so they are circling the Middle East map.  Afghanistan seems the
>country du jour, although they can't help but salivate over the prospect of
>bombing Iraq again, so they appear to be keeping their options open.
>    While I realize the futility of trying to stop the lust for revenge, I
>would like to make a plea for equality of justice.  If the USA is to appear
>evenhanded in handing out justice, it must look at all the guilty, and not
>just those in unfavored countries.
>    I refer, of course, to those who originally funded and trained these
>Muslim terrorists.  Who gave them billions of dollars, weapons, training and
>the gumption to go up against a super power, and then sneaked them into the
>US.  Yes,  of course, the US Congress and the CIA.  During the 80s, while
>thousands of US families were homeless and hungry, the Congress gave the
>terrorists billions of dollars that honest, hard-working Americans paid in
>taxes.  Now these same terrorists have turned on America and killed
>Americans.  This is treason.  Those responsible must be punished.  Oh, sure,
>there'll be whining.   Guilty people always whine about their innocence.
>It's true that the Congress didn't mean for Americans to be killed, only
>Russians and Aghans. (A small digression: If there were Russians killed in
>the 9/11 attack, would it still be a good thing?  Or would just their
presence on
>American soil make it a bad thing? I guess that'll be up to the theologians
>to decide).
	It's possible that Congress may have thought that there is a
>terrorist code of honor, like that of politicians, where an honest one is
one
>who stays bought.  Or so they may claim. But President George W. Bush has
>shown in Texas that he doesn't listen to that sort of nonsense.  It is true
>that if we bomb Congress, we risk killing those who didn't vote for
terrorist
>funding and those who weren't even there at the time, but the President has
>made clear that he doesn't care if innocent people die, and the American
people, in
>polls, have indicated their support for that idea.  We shouldn't warn them
>before the attack, either, or the guilty may escape.  Everyone knows that
>American cruise missiles are so accurate that there is no danger to the
>people in the surrounding neighborhoods of Washington.
>    And as to harboring terrorists, we can't credibly bomb countries that
may
>have had suspected terrorists living within their borders, unless we also
bomb
>the place where known terrorists, the truly guilty, those who died during
the
>act, were harbored for the last few years:  Florida.  And, I suppose,  we
>should also assassinate Jeb Bush, for being the leader of Florida.  It's
ironic, worthy
>of a Greek tragedy, that George will have to be responible for his brother's
>death, but I'm sure he's up to it.
>    If we start with the original funders and continue with the known
>harborers, I am sure that the world will have no problem with the USA
bombing
>other places.  We will have shown that we are truly interested in combatting
>terrorism, no matter how painful it may be. We will have shown, once again,
>that we are only interested in truth and justice.
>


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