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Re: NO LBC CONTENT! slamming France instead!!

To: "Bob Van Kirk" <racerbob70@yahoo.com>, <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: NO LBC CONTENT! slamming France instead!!
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 18:02:36 -0000
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This Has NO LBC content.
Delete now, or enjoy!

Always look on the bright side of life....
OK? so below is a letter written to the London observer from Terry Jones
(yes, he of Monty Python).
Just to put a different slant on things!

 Sunday January 26, 2003

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 as 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 are 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.

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