vision2020
Re: this applies to Iran and Iraq as well!
Shahab,
I'm glad that you value freedom and I am also glad that you were able to
come to this country to realize it. Your statement that "as a nation" the
rest of don't value it is a little off line. We may "seem" to not value it,
but I can assure you it is paramount in our beliefs. The problem that most
of have is that freedom is all we have ever known and we may take it a
little for granted.
If anyone hints to us that they are going to try to take our freedom away,
or even infringe on it, our wrath will be unleashed. I think that is what
you are seeing from the vast majority of us now.
Mark Miller
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shahab Mesbah" <meteor2@moscow.com>
To: "Melynda Huskey" <melynda_h@hotmail.com>; <vision2020@moscow.com>
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 4:56 PM
Subject: RE: this applies to Iran and Iraq as well!
> Speaking for myself... I came here because of the freedom. I am, however,
> saddened by how little we as a nation seem to value it. We cannot forget
> LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. This is what we are all about. Without it we
> would be no different than Iran.
>
> "Your brother in arms"
> Shahab...
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Melynda Huskey [mailto:melynda_h@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 10:58 AM
> To: vision2020@moscow.com
> Subject: RE: this applies to Iran and Iraq as well!
>
> At 09:22 AM 09/22/2001 -0500, P C wrote:
> >I see a lot of people who come to this country, enjoy all of its
> >benefits and freedoms, and then ridicule the hell out of it any >chance
> >they get. A lot of people are sick of this.
>
> If I'm not mistaken, one reason all of us immigrants (and we are all
> immigrants except the Nez Perce around here) came to this country was the
> lure of constitutionally-guaranteed freedom of speech, which included our
> right and responsibility to scrutinize and critique every action
undertaken
> by our representatives in the government. Ridicule, dissent, and
contention
> are, as they say, features, not bugs, in the system. As for getting sick
of
> it, well, the alternative is one I'd really choke on: totalitarianism.
>
> Melynda Huskey
> melynda_h@hotmail.com
>
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