Liza Sabater

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> From: wolfgang staehle <wolfgangsta@...>
> Date: Thu Feb 20, 2003 3:18:00 PM America/New_York
> To: thingist@...
> Subject: [thingist] A letter from Terry Jones
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> A letter to the London Observer newspaper from Terry Jones (of Monty
> Python fame).
>
> Letters
> Sunday January 26, 2003
> The Observer
>
> I'm really excited by George Bush's latest reason for bombing Iraq:
> he's running out of patience. And so am I! For some time now I've been
> really pissed off with Mr Johnson, who lives a couple of doors down
> the street. Well, him and Mr Patel, who runs the health food shop.
> They both give me queer looks, and I'm sure Mr Johnson is planning
> something nasty for me, but so far I haven't been able to discover
> what. I've been round to his place a few times to see what he's up to,
> but he's got everything well hidden. That's how devious he is. As for
> Mr Patel, don't ask me how I know, I just know - from very good
> sources - that he is, in reality, a Mass Murderer. I have leafleted
> the street telling them that: if we don't act first, he'll pick us off
> one by one. Some of my neighbours say, if I've got proof, why don't I
> go to the police? But that's simply ridiculous. The police will say
> that they need evidence of a crime with which to charge my neighbours.
> They'll come up with endless red tape and quibbling about the rights
> and wrongs of a pre-emptive strike and all the while Mr Johnson will
> be finalising his plans to do terrible things to me, while Mr Patel
> will be secretly murdering people Since I'm the only one in the street
> with a decent range of automatic firearms, I reckon it's up to me to
> keep the peace. But until recently that's been a little difficult.
> Now, however, George W. Bush has made it clear that all I need to do
> is run out of patience, and then I can wade in and do whatever I want!
> And let's face it, Mr Bush's carefully thought-out policy towards Iraq
> is the only way to bring about international peace and security. The
> one certain way to stop Muslim fundamentalist suicide bombers
> targeting the US or the UK is to bomb a few Muslim countries that have
> never threatened us. That's why I want to blow up Mr Johnson's garage
> and kill his wife and children. Strike first! That'll teach him a
> lesson. Then he'll leave us in peace and stop peering at me in that
> totally unacceptable way. Mr Bush makes it clear that all he needs to
> know before bombing Iraq is that Saddam is a really nasty man and that
> he has weapons of mass destruction - even if no one can find them. I'm
> certain I've just a s much justification for killing Mr Johnson's wife
> and children as Mr Bush has for bombing Iraq. Mr Bush's long-term aim
> is to make the world a safer place by eliminating 'rogue states' and
> 'terrorism'. It's such a clever long-term aim because how can you ever
> know when you've achieved it? How will Mr Bush know when he's wiped
> out all terrorists? When every single terrorist is dead? But then a
> terrorist is only a terrorist once he's committed an act of terror.
> What about would-be terrorists? These are the ones you really want to
> eliminate, since most of the known terrorists, being suicide bombers,
> have already eliminated themselves. Perhaps Mr Bush needs to wipe out
> everyone who could possibly be a future terrorist? Maybe he can't be
> sure he's achieved his objective until every Muslim fundamentalist is
> dead? But then some moderate Muslims might convert to fundamentalism.
> Maybe the only really safe thing to do would be for Mr Bush to
> eliminate all Muslims? It's the same in my street. Mr Johnson and Mr
> Patel a re just the tip of the iceberg. There are dozens of other
> people in the street who I don't like and who - quite frankly - look
> at me in odd ways. No one will be really safe until I've wiped them
> all out. My wife says I might be going too far but I tell her I'm
> simply using the same logic as the President of the United States.
> That shuts her up. Like Mr Bush, I've run out of patience, and if
> that's a good enough reason for the President, it's good enough for
> me. I'm going to give the whole street two weeks - no, 10 days - to
> come out in the open and hand over all aliens and interplanetary
> hijackers, galactic outlaws and interstellar terrorist masterminds,
> and if they don't hand them over nicely and say 'Thank you', I'm going
> to bomb the entire street to kingdom come. It's just as sane as what
> George W. Bush is proposing - and, in contrast to what he's intending,
> my policy will destroy only one street. Sincerely, Terry Jones
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Fetteroll

Let's do our best not to bring up the subject of Iraq. There are families
here with loved ones who could be involved and the subject is a painful one
for them.

Thanks.

Joyce
Unschooling-dotcom moderator