Re: RC: Fwd: RC: Terrorism

[Maria Hammill <maria_martin99@yahoo.com>]

Well, my first post to Ridecamp and it isn't even on the subject of
horses much less endurance.  

I realize we are all angry and hurt.  I realize we all feel a
deepseated need to hold someone accountable - indeed, we all should
feel that need.  But for crying out loud, we need to make sure that the
right person or people are held accountable.

Here in my city, a mosque was firebombed.  While people were in it. 
Here in my city, a PERSONAL FRIEND was spit upon and so was I for
accompanying her to a grocery store.  This friend is Chaldean.  But she
is Arab.  We were threatened.  I am thankful nothing further happened. 
I live in a predominantly Arab neighborhood.  I have never, until now,
seen a police presence in it.  I see patrol cars every hour now, and I
am thankful for them.

Elsewhere in this great country of ours, a Sikh Indian was killed. 
Because he wore a turban.  People are getting beaten, and killed,
because of nothing more than the color of their skin or their dress. 
What does that make us?  Any better than Bin Laden?  Not in my book.

Yes, ask for justice.  Yes, demand that those responsible are held
accountable.  But you must keep a clear head about it.  Don't let this
megalomaniac make us any less then we are.  Don't let him/them diminish
us.  We, as a nation, are bigger than that.  

Maria

PS - Hi Heidi!  I took your advice and joined this list and I think
it's wonderful!

--- CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated Sun, 16 Sep 2001  8:13:22 PM Eastern Daylight
> Time, sjfleetwindarab@webtv.net (Joe) writes:
> 
> > I was replying to this...terrorist sympathizers, not a miss spelled
> > word.  The President even said "Either you are with us or you
> aren't"
> 
> And so, Joe, just what do you object to in the post you copied?  Do
> you really find American fairness and justice repugnant?  Do you
> really want us to just lash out, regardless of whether we know if our
> target is indeed the guilty one?  That seems like a strange position
> for a veteran, who fought to uphold the principles on which this
> great nation is based.  Since the poster posted that particular post,
> it appears that more leads are indeed pointing toward Osama bin
> Laden.  And if he is the guilty party, so be it.  (My bet was on him
> from the outset of this attack, but having a hunch that he is the
> most likely guilty party and actually proving that are not the same
> thing.)
> 
> Bravo for folks who can restrain their anger long enough to remember
> that this nation is founded on principles, and who won't sell those
> principles short, just because we are in pain.  It takes a lot of
> class to rise above pain and retain one's principles.
> 
> Heidi
> 
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