IP: We're more nuts than you, and it should scare you s***less.

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 09:49:27 -0500
> To: farber () central cis upenn edu
> From: Gene Spafford <spaf () cerias purdue edu>
> Subject: For IP
>
> This really captures the essence of the USA.
>
> > Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 08:05:00 -0400 (EDT)
> > From: Nev Dull <nev () sleepycat com>
> > Forwarded-by: John Hedtke <john () hedtke com>
> >
> > This is a post from a CNN message board: Orion Ramsey - Friday,
> > 09/21/01, 2:35:00pm (#58980 of 58989)
> >
> > To those extremists that perpetrated this crime against our nation, I
> > have a warning for you. There are those of us who look at your
> > actions as  irrational, twisted, and completely inhuman. By all
> > measures, what you have done can only be seen as insane. I have news
> > for you. We're more nuts than you, and it should scare you s***less.
> >
> > You may think that when you die for your cause, you go to Paradise
> > with 72 virgins, can leave reservations for 70 members of your
> > family, all your sins are forgiven, and you sit at the side of Allah.
> > Big deal. We had 39 guys who rented a Beverly Hills mansion, cut
> > off their nuts, built a web site, and proceeded to poison themselves
> > to death to hitch a ride with aliens out on the Hale-Bopp comet.
> >
> > You shoot guns into the sky to celebrate victories over enemies, and
> > people are killed by the bullets raining down on them. We not only do
> > this for New Year's Eve in some cities, but we burn houses down, tear
> > up streets, loot and sack our stores, and beat ourselves senseless
> > when our sports teams win championships.
> >
> > Sports teams! We made a sequel to Police Academy 5. We gave an award
> > for singing to two guys who never even sang. We put little sweaters on
> > dogs. We shot John Lennon six times and didn't even aim for Yoko Ono.
> > We think Elvis is still alive. We put Braille on drive-up automatic
> > teller machines. We think that a simple button on a web site that says
> > "Do not click if you're under 21" will do anything but cause a person
> > under 21 to click on it. We take a large chunk of the island on which
> > those buildings you destroyed sat and pretend that it isn't a part of
> > our country after all, let people fly into our airports that we want to
> > kill, drive them in limousines to speak against us on this "pretend
> > territory" land, let them drive back to our airport, and let them fly
> > them back home without a scratch.  We sell hot dogs in packages of ten
> > and the buns in packages of eight.  We can't even decide if pitchers
> > should have to bat for themselves or not.  All those baseball fields
> > we've got. And none of them are even remotely the same size.
> >
> > We gave millions of dollars to a guy that told us that God was going to
> > kill him if he didn't raise enough money. When he didn't get enough
> > money, he didn't die. So we gave him more money in celebration of the
> > fact that God didn't make him die. We've managed to keep the formulas
> > for Coca-Cola and Kentucky Fried Chicken secret for decades, we encrypt
> > the most banal communications on our Information Superhighway, and yet
> > we given away our most important nuclear secrets to the Chinese and
> > Russians at the drop of a hat. And yet, with all this on the A-1 Psycho
> > balance sheet, you still think you're more nuts than us that this won't
> > result in your complete and utter annihilation? One way or another, your
> > way of life will be over, period.
> >
> > Freedom's kind of a crazy, kooky, nutty thing when you look really close
> > at it and all the bizarre and loony things that can result from it, but
> > it's better than any other ideas anybody else has come up with. It's
> > been that way since 1776, and built to last no matter how insanely we
> > try to screw it up on a daily basis. We are even so nuts and ruthless
> > enough as a nation to start insanely tearing at those of ourselves that
> > even remotely resemble you in such rancorous, deplorable, and angry ways
> > that will make you wonder if Allah has enough glue to piece enough of
> > you back together for a flesh paperweight in Paradise.
> >
> > We may not know where you are now, but when we do I guarantee you that
> > the majority of our high school children will still have no idea where
> > on the globe where you are or where you will end up being buried. But
> > we will send them anyway, and we will allow those of them that went into
> > the armed services because they didn't manage to get into college
> > *still* rain down Hell and fire on your worthless hides. It will all
> > come down on you, because we're nuts enough to give all four of our
> > branches of military services extremely powerful and deadly aircraft
> > even though only one of them is actually called the Air Force. Picking
> > a fight with the most insane nation on Earth with the hope that your
> > message and influence will spread throughout the world, well, that's
> > just downright stupid.



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