"Whip out your shotgun and blow the fricker to pieces because we got burgled last yearby a hispanic guy, and his grandad was from puerto rico?"
"That's my boy"
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>Subject: [OpenHeroWars] Digest Number 69
>Date: 30 Apr 2003 08:57:41 -0000
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> 1. re
> From: "aranwyth" <david.boatright_at_IpneSC2LS7nmGUrgxQuNu-XfbsAUH5uhuWh34mgr4DjS6Vy2jPGsQkwYm3NQjBgTP_Mg7RTHLcenhZ6pNmeHk8I69g.yahoo.invalid>
> 2. Re: re
> From: Graham Robinson <graham_at_bz_fOdPUtgJ-CVnQ8nfXtoLmjz7aCeFbG2rZPbaZ2XO1GVhPvuOhD357c7TkLowzZ9Hgk5osSlMM_FeoMO6Gug.yahoo.invalid>
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>Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 00:32:43 -0000
> From: "aranwyth" <david.boatright_at_IpneSC2LS7nmGUrgxQuNu-XfbsAUH5uhuWh34mgr4DjS6Vy2jPGsQkwYm3NQjBgTP_Mg7RTHLcenhZ6pNmeHk8I69g.yahoo.invalid>
>Subject: re
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>Lt. Commander Bill Goss, USN (Ret)
>
>Recently my nine-year-old son wanted to know why we were at war. My
>husband looked at our son and then looked at me. My husband and I
>were in the Army during the Gulf War, and we would be honored to
>serve and defend our country again today. I knew that my husband
>would give our young son a good explanation.
>
>My husband thought for a few minutes and then told my son to go
>stand in our front living room window. He told him: "Son, stand
>there and tell me what you see." "I see trees and cars and our
>neighbors' houses." he replied.
>
>"Okay, now I want you to pretend that our house and our yard is the
>United States of America and you are President Bush." Our son
>giggled and said "okay." "Now son, I want you to look out the window
>and pretend that every house and yard on this block is a different
>country."
>
>"Okay Dad, I'm pretending."
>
>"Now pretend you see a man come out of his house, dragging his wife
>by her hair. That man represents Saddam Hussein. He is hitting her,
>and you see she is bleeding and crying. He hits her in the face, he
>throws her on the ground, then he starts to kick her. He keeps
>kicking her and kicking her until she loses consciousness. Their
>children run out, and they are crying and screaming for him to stop,
>but they can do nothing because they are just little kids. They are
>afraid of their father because they have seen him beat up their
>mother before, and he has beaten them up too when they tried to
>protect her. Son, you see all of this....now what are you going to
>do?"
>
>"Dad?"
>
>"What do you do son?"
>
>"I call the police, Dad."
>
>"Okay. Let's pretend that the police are the United Nations and they
>take your call, listen to what you tell them, but they refuse to
>help. What do you do then son?"
>
>"But Dad, the police are supposed to help!"
>
>"They don't want to help, son, because they say that it is not their
>place or your place to get involved. They tell you that it is none
>of your business and that you should stay out of it."
>
>"But Dad, he's killing her!" my son exclaims.
>
>"I know, son, but the police tell you to stay out of it. Now I want
>you to look out the neighbor who you're pretending is Saddam. He
>turns around and starts doing the same thing to his children."
>
>"He's killing them?"
>
>"Yes, son, he is. What do you do?"
>
>"Well, if the police won't help, then I'll go to our next-door
>neighbor and ask him to help me stop him," our son says.
>
>"Son, our next door neighbor sees what is happening, but he refuses
>to get involved as well. He won't even open the door," my husband
>says.
>
>"But Dad, I need help! I can't stop him by myself!"
>
>"Are you just going to watch out the window while he kills his
>family? WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO, SON?"
>
>Our son starts to get upset.
>
>"I'm sorry, son, but no one is going to help you. The police won't.
>Your neighbors won't. The vicious man across the street SAW you ask
>for help, and he saw that no one would help you stop him. Guess what
>he does next son?"
>
>"What Daddy?"
>
>"He walks across the street to Mrs. Brown's house. He breaks down
>her door and drags her out into her yard. He hits her and kicks her
>until she stops moving. He goes into her house and starts stealing
>all her stuff. Then he drags her back into her house and sets it on
>fire. He turns around and sees you standing in the window. He laughs
>at you because he knows that no one is going to stop him from doing
>this to all the neighbors. WHAT DO YOU DO?"
>
>"Daddy..."
>
>"WHAT DO YOU DO?"
>
>Our son looks down and he whispers, "I close the blinds, Daddy."
>
>My husband looks at our son with tears in his eyes and asks
>him. "Why?"
>
>Our son starts to sob. "Because the police are supposed to
>help...people who need it....and they won't help....You always say
>that neighbors are supposed to HELP neighbors, but they won't help
>either... they won't help me stop him...I'm afraid....I can't do it
>by myself...Daddy.....I can't look out my window and just watch him
>do all these terrible things and ...and.....do nothing...so....I'm
>just going to close the blinds....so I can't see what he's
>doing........and I'm going to pretend that it's not happening."
>
>Now I start to cry.
>
>My husband looks at our nine-year-old son standing in the window,
>our son looking ashamed at his answers to my husband's questions.
>Then my husband says, "Son, look at me."
>
>Our son looks up from his tears.
>
>"Son, that man is at our front door. There is no one here, but you
>and your mom and your sister. And now he's breaking down the door.
>What are you going to do?"
>
>My son looks at his father, anger and defiance in his eyes. He balls
>up his little fists and looks his father square in the eyes. Without
>hesitation he says: "I'm going to fight him, Dad! I can't let him
>hurt my mom and my sister! I have to fight him now. I'll get my
>baseball bat and when he comes in the door, I'll hit him."
>
>I see a tear roll down my husband's cheek and he grabs my son to his
>chest and hugs him tight and cries..."It's too late to fight him
>now, son. He's grown too bold and too strong and he's already at
>your front door. You should have stopped him BEFORE he killed his
>wife, BEFORE he killed his children, BEFORE he attacked the
>neighbors. You have to do what's right, even if you have to do it
>alone, before it's too late," my husband whispered.
>
>What I just described to you is why we are at war with Iraq. When
>good men stand by and let evil happen, it's the greatest evil of
>all. Our President did what was right. We had to remove Saddam from
>power, so that we can continue to live in a free world. A world
>where we have the courage to look out from our windows and, when we
>see crimes against humanity, we take action against them.
>
>So that my nine-year-old son won't grow up in world, where he feels
>that if he just "closes" the blinds, the horrible things happening
>to other people in the world won't affect him or his family."
>
>I hope you understand the lesson my husband tried to teach our son.
>And I hope you continue to support our President, our country, and
>our troops
>
>
>
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>Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 08:20:14 +0100
> From: Graham Robinson <graham_at_bz_fOdPUtgJ-CVnQ8nfXtoLmjz7aCeFbG2rZPbaZ2XO1GVhPvuOhD357c7TkLowzZ9Hgk5osSlMM_FeoMO6Gug.yahoo.invalid>
>Subject: Re: re
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>Well that was the biggest pile of bollocks I've ever seen. You stopped
>taking your happy pills, David?
>
>--
>Graham Robinson
>graham_at_bz_fOdPUtgJ-CVnQ8nfXtoLmjz7aCeFbG2rZPbaZ2XO1GVhPvuOhD357c7TkLowzZ9Hgk5osSlMM_FeoMO6Gug.yahoo.invalid
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