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Written by an Australian Dentist….too good to delete….. 

To Kill an American
You probably missed this in the rush of news, but there was actually a report that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper, an offer of a reward to anyone who killed an American, any American. 

So an Australian dentist wrote an editorial the following day to let everyone know what an American is. So they would know when they found one.

(Good one, mate!!!!) 


‘An American is English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish, Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may also be Canadian, Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or Pakistani or Afghan. 


An American may also be a Comanche, Cherokee, Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho, Apache, Seminole or one of the many other tribes known as native Americans.


An American is Christian, or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim. In fact, there are more Muslims in America than in Afghanistan.The only difference is that in America they are free to worship as each of them chooses. 


An American is also free to believe in no religion.. For that he will answer only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming to speak for the government and for God.

An American lives in the most prosperous land in the history of the world.

The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of Independence , which recognizes the God given right of each person to the pursuit of happiness.. 


An American is generous. Americans have helped out just about every other nation in the world in their time of need, never asking a thing in return. 


When Afghanistan was over-run by the Soviet army 20 years ago, Americans came with arms and supplies to enable the people to win back their country! 


As of the morning of September 11, Americans had given more than any other nation to the poor in Afghanistan . Americans welcome the best of everything…the best products, the best books, the best music, the best food, the best services. B ut they also welcome the least. 


The national symbol of America , The Statue of Liberty , welcomes your tired and your poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the homeless, tempest tossed. These in fact are the people who built America . 


Some of them were working in the Twin Towers the morning of September 11, 2001 earning a better life for their families. It ’ s been told that the World Trade Center victims were from at least 30 different countries, cultures, and first languages, including those that aided and abetted the terrorists. 

So you can try to kill an American if you must. Hitler did. So did General Tojo, and Stalin, and Mao Tse-Tung, and other blood-thirsty tyrants in the world. But, in doing so you would just be killing yourself . Because Americans are not a particular people from a pa rticular place. They are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an American. 


Please keep this going!
Pass this around the World .

Then pass it around again. 
It says it all, for all of us 
Please do not just delete. 
Pass it on first.

We are, as the intelligent people of Society, the students, organic intellectuals as stated by Antonio Gramsci.  He says that there is a dominant class in all societies that will lead and have power, in some form, over a majority of society and lending different ideologies to those who will follow.  As compared to his other classification of an intellectual, a traditional intellectual, one is personally intellectually and feels that they make no contribution to society, which is false,  we need to make use of our intelligence and help others.  Further more, “common sense” from the everyone in society comes from this, the ideologies that are put forth on the public from the organic intellectuals, also may be considered hegemony. Intellectuals will always be influential, and it is our duty to make sure we make the ‘right’ decisions and put forth ideas and concepts that will help to unite us together, so that we may have a greater understanding of each other, or at least if not in agreement, still have respect for others.