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>
> ---------------------- Forwarded Message: ---------------------
> From: manbear <manbear(a)netonecom.net>
> Subject: [Fwd: MtMan-List: wtc]
> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 00:06:36 -0400
>
>
>
> Marc Stewart wrote:
>
> > Great, Powerful Piece by L. Pitts addressed to terrorists
> > Wed Sep 12 08:40:41 2001
> >
> > They pay me to tease shades of meaning from social and cultural
issues,
> > to provide words that help make sense of that which
troubles the
> > American soul.
> > But in this moment of airless shock when hot tears sting disbelieving
> > eyes, the only thing I can find to say, the only words that seem to
fit,
> > must be addressed to the unknown author of this suffering.
> >
> > You monster. You beast. You unspeakable bastard.
> >
> > What lesson did you hope to teach us by your coward's attack on our
> > World Trade Center, our Pentagon, us? What was it you hoped we would
> > learn?
> > Whatever it was, know that you failed.
> >
> > Did you want us to respect your cause? You just damned it.
> >
> > Did you want to make us fear? You just steeled our resolve.
> >
> > Did you want to tear us apart? You just brought us together.
> >
> > Let me tell you about my people. We are a vast and quarrelsome family,
a
> > family rent by racial, cultural, political and class
division, but a
> > family nonetheless. We're frivolous, yes, capable of expending
> > tremendous
> > emotional energy on pop cultural minutiae -- a singer's revealing
dress,
> > a ball team's misfortune, a cartoon mouse.
> >
> > We're wealthy, too, spoiled by the ready availability of trinkets and
> > material goods, and maybe because of that, we walk through life with a
> > certain sense of blithe entitlement. We are fundamentally decent,
though
> > --
> > peace-loving and compassionate. We struggle to know the right thing
and
> > to do it. And we are, the overwhelming majority of us,
people of
faith,
> > believers in a just and loving God.
> >
> > Some people -- you, perhaps -- think that any or all of this makes us
> > weak. You're mistaken. We are not weak. Indeed, we are strong in ways
> > that cannot be measured by arsenals.
> >
> > Yes, we're in pain now. We are in mourning, and we are in shock. We're
> > still grappling with the unreality of the awful thing you did, still
> > working to make ourselves understand that this isn't a special effect
> > from some Hollywood blockbuster, isn't the plot from a Tom Clancy
novel.
> >
> > Both in terms of the awful scope of its ambition and the probable
final
> > death toll, your attacks are likely to go down as the worst
acts of
> > terrorism in the history of the United States and, indeed, the history
> > of the world. You've bloodied us as we have never been bloodied
before.
> >
> > But there's a gulf of difference between making us bloody and making
us
> > fall. This is the lesson Japan was taught to its bitter
sorrow the
last
> > time anyone hit us this hard, the last time anyone brought
us such
> > abrupt and monumental pain. When roused, we are righteous in our
> > outrage, terrible in our force. When provoked by this level of
> > barbarism, we will bear any suffering, pay any cost, go to any length,
> > in the pursuit of justice.
> >
> > I tell you this without fear of contradiction. I know my people, as
you
> > do not. What I know reassures me. It also causes me to
tremble with
> > dread of the future.
> >
> > In days to come, there will be recrimination and accusation, fingers
> > pointing to determine whose failure allowed this to happen and what
can
> > be done to prevent it from happening again. There will be
heightened
> > security,
> > misguided talk of revoking basic freedoms. We'll go forward from this
> > moment sobered, chastened, sad. But determined, too. Unimaginably
> > determined.
> >
> > There is steel beneath this velvet. That aspect of our character is
> > seldom understood by those who don't know us well. On this day, the
> > family's bickering is put on hold. As Americans we will weep, as
> > Americans we will mourn, and as Americans we will rise in defense of
all
> > that we cherish.
> >
> > Still, I keep wondering what it was you hoped to teach us. It occurs
to
> > me that maybe you just wanted us to know the depths of your
hatred.
> >
> > If that's the case, consider the message received. And take this
message
> > in exchange: You don't know my people. You don't
know what we're
about.
> > You don't know what you just started.
> >
> > But you're about to learn.
> >
> > ----------------------
>
>
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