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silverlib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-04 07:19 PM
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Please help me respond (blood pressure now at boiling point)
Just got this from my ex-brother-in law. Please help me prepare an appropriate response, if there is such a thing. I'm on my way out to a Peace & Justice meeting. This makes me SICK!!!! If this has been posted before, please forgive me. If it takes days, I'll think of some appropriate reply to this crap. I do not seen one/quarter ounce of humor in this.

Subject: LARK worth reading!


The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D.C. 20016

Dear Concerned Citizen:

Thank you for your recent letter roundly criticizing our treatment of the Taliban and Al Qaeda detainees currently being held at Guantanamo Bay,Cuba.

This administration takes these matters seriously, and your opinion was heard loud and clear here in Washington.

You'll be pleased to learn that, thanks to the concerns of citizens like you, we are creating a new division of the Terrorist Retraining Program,to be called the "Liberals Accept Responsibility for Killers" program, or LARK for short.

In accordance with the guidelines of this new program, we have decided to place one terrorist under your personal care.

Your personal detainee has been selected and scheduled for transportation under heavily armed guard to your residence next Monday.

Ali Mohammed Ahmed bin Mahmud (you can just call him Ahmed) is to be cared for pursuant to the standards you personally demanded in your letter of admonishment. It will likely be necessary for you to hire some assistant caretakers. We will conduct weekly inspections to ensure that your standards of care for Ahmed are commensurate with those you so strongly recommended in your letter.

Ahmed's meal requirements are simple, but we strongly suggest serving
meals that do not require utensils, particularly knives and forks. Also, these should be "one-handed" foods; Ahmed will not eat with his left hand since he uses it to wipe himself after purging his bowels (which he will do in your yard) -- but look on the bright side -- no increase in the toilet paper bill.

He generally bathes quarterly with the change of seasons, assuming that it rains, and he washes his clothes simultaneously. This should help with your water bill. Also, your new friend has a really bad case of body lice that hasn't been completely remedied. Please heed the large orange notice attached to your detainee's cage: "Does not play well with others."

Although Ahmed is sociopath and extremely violent, we hope that your
sensitivity to what you described as his "attitudinal problem" will help him overcome these character flaws.

Perhaps you are correct in describing these problems as mere cultural
differences. He will bite you, given the chance, but his rabies test came back negative, so not to worry. We understand that you plan to offer counseling and home schooling. Your adopted terrorist is extremely proficient in hand-to-hand combat and can extinguish human life with such simple items as a pencil or nail clippers. We do not suggest that you ask him to demonstrate these skills at your next yoga group. He is also expert at making a wide variety of explosive devices from common household products, so you may wish to keep those items locked up, unless (in your opinion) this might offend him.

Ahmed will not wish to interact with your wife or daughters (except
sexually) since he views females as a subhuman form of property. However, he will be eager to assist with the education of your sons; have available for their use several copies of the Q'uran. Oh -- and rest assured he absolutely loves animals, especially cats and dogs. He prefers them roasted, but raw is fine, too, if they aren't more than 2 or 3 days dead.

Thanks again for your letter. We truly appreciate it when folks like you, who know so much, keep us informed of the proper way to do our job. We think this watching over each other's shoulder is such a good way for people to interact that we will be sending a team of federal officials with expertise in your line of work to your place of business soon, just to help you do your job better.

Don't be concerned that they have the power to close your business, seize your property, and arrest you for any violation of the 4,850,206 laws, codes, regulations and rules that apply to your profession. They're really there just to make sure you're doing everything the proper way. That is what you wanted, right?

Well, thank you for this opportunity to interact with such a valued member of the citizenry. You take good care of Ahmed -- and remember -- we'll be watching.

Cordially ... Your Buddy,
Don Rumsfeld
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lapislzi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-04 07:24 PM
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1. You would dignify this racist idiocy with a response?
Treat it with the contempt it deserves! And steer clear of that brother-in-law. Tell him you will no longer be accepting his e-mails, and add him to your spam list. You have more important things to do than to elevate your blood pressure with such nonsense.

We have a world to change.

Peace.
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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-04 07:50 PM
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6. Agreed - this RACISM doesn't deserve any response
Unless you reply just to say:

"I refuse to have racists among my friends. You're cut off."

And then do it. Cut him off.
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snippy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-04 07:26 PM
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2. I believe this letter is real and perfectly illustrates the extent that
the Bush administration cares about the American people.
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alcuno Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-04 07:27 PM
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3. Speaking of terrorists, send me George W. Bush!
I'll take good care of him.
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boobooday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-04 07:32 PM
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4. This sounds suspiciously
Like the prose of Ann Coulter . . . ms. witchy-poo



http://www.wgoeshome.com

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Demonaut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-04 08:31 PM
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10. just what i was thinking, her style
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-04 07:36 PM
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5. That's just stunning in it's spectacular stupidity
wow...the mind reels..
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BlueJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-04 07:51 PM
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7. Tell your idiot ex-brother-in-law that a civilized society
treats pow's with the same respect that we would want to be treated if the shoe was on the other foot.We also treat pow's with respect because someday if the shoe IS on the other foot the ones that capture us (at least) can't say "We'll treat you the same way you treated us".....badly.
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I AM SPARTACUS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-04 07:55 PM
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8. I don't think Muslims eat cats & dogs...raw or roasted.
Otherwise, this is exactly the sort of idiocy we've come to expect from both the misunderstimadministration and other freepie-people.
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kayell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-04 07:58 PM
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9. Your email program came with a delete button and kill filters - Use them
Don't bother responding to this BS. Anyone who would send this is beyond all hope.
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9215 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-04 08:34 PM
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11. Suggestion: rewrite it with Liberals inpower
and they are rounding up neo-cons. Hypothetically speaking of course.
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-04 08:36 PM
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12. Liberals support terrorists?
Tell him about Reagan and Ollie North's actions in the ME in the eighties, tell him about Bush's orders for the CIA to back off Bin Laden, tell him about Jim Baker defending Saudi Arabia in a lawsuit filed by 9/11 victim's families, tell him about the various Bush/bin Laden, Bush/Saudi, and Saudi/Bin Laden connections, tell him that Al Qeada is a group of right wing religious fanatics like the 700 Club, and finally; tell him that you never understood how the people of Germany would support Hitler and his policies until you started interacting with fascist assholes like him.

Then tell him to go to hell.
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silverlib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-04 11:06 PM
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13. Thank you all!
Just got home from the Peace and Justice meeting and copied every res pone (with no identities, screen names, or web site info) and emailed them to him.

I forgot to mention that in the email he sent, he asked that I share with my liberal friends.

...and so I did.

Thanks millions. Once again, DU came through.
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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-04 11:15 PM
Response to Reply #13
14. LOL!
He's going to be STEAMED. Bigots HATE to be called what they are.
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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-04 11:18 PM
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15. p.s. We go to Peace and Justice meetings - what do they go to?
Hate and Fear meetings?

Persecution and Intolerance?

Greed and Dishonesty?
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silverlib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-04 11:28 PM
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16. Very good and ouch!
I should have used that one! I'll save it for next time.
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