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[Tamara Thompson]

Well, yeah, okay. all that.  agreed.

I put my flag out tonight in respect.  I lit my candles for the dead and the
hopefully-will-be-recovered-soon.    I said my prayers.  I cried.   I am glued
to the tv which is unusual for me, hoping to hear more good news of survivors.

How can you or would you ask a people who have barely begun to cope with what
has happened, to punish an as yet not quite defined attacker?  To possibly
enter a global war?   Or did you not insinuate that?

My child is my best 'flag'--she is the strongest reminder and symbol of my
dedication to global peace and this world's future.  To get emotional now,  to
react out of anger or frustration, might endanger the future.  Our children.
The world's children.

To inspire people to react, to emotionally ennervate people to rally about a
war cry and retribution cause right now, is to inflict more pain on the
american people that you realize.  We will defend ourselves, we will seek and
find justice, we just don't have to endanger the world with our reaction.  I
think Americans are going to be smarter than that.

Oh, but yeah.  I live in the same world where Ghandi and Martin Luther King had
their lives cut short for speaking of peace.  Christ.

I hope we all keep cool heads right now.  Our actions and our words have far
ranging impact.

peace,
Tamara



LilBwana wrote:

> Dear Group,
>
>         I have read for the last day the responces from some people on this
> forum.  I have heard from other places that We should Strike back, we should
> take affirmative action to kill all involved.  And I have heard things like
> this : "Nationalism" is that emotional thing that can be raised in people
> when tragedy strikes.  It's not neccessarily the most reasonable approach to
> world situations.
>
>         The truth is that no matter how you look at it, this was an attack
> on New York, This was an attack on The Pentagon, and both of which are
> located in the country that was attacked.  This was a blatent and outright
> attack on The United States.  The United States which while we may have our
> problems is still the backbone of Democracy in the world.  Which cuts to the
> bottom of what has happened.  This was an attack on the very principles that
> this Nation stands for.  The very freedoms that allow people to speak out
> against their own country.  Or to live your life the way you see fit.  Or to
> sit and try to see the humanitarian way to do things.  The truth is that we
> have been forced to participate in an activity where we do not make the
> rules.  We face a situation where we have to play by the rules that have
> been set.
>         When the rest of the world learned of guerilla warfare, the only way
> to combat it, and defeat it was to learn to adapt to the rules then set.
> When we hit the age of tanks we found that men were not as good as they once
> were, now we live in an age of missles and bombs, and the levels have
> stepped up.  Terrorism is a threat to not only the US, but to any nation in
> the world, friend or foe.  And to make sure that more innocent lives are not
> lost in such a manner, we must eliminate terrorism, or the next time it
> could be the very ones you love, or yourself.  This is not a personal
> opinion issue, this is a moral and ethical dilema that affects the whole
> world.  And the safety of the whole world.
>         Nationalism is that which helps to bring together a nation so all
> men women, black and white, no matter the race, religion, or sex, can come
> together and realize the same thing, and stand united, It is one of the
> greatest accomplishments that humanity has.
>
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