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StraightDope Donating Member (716 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-24-06 03:38 PM
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Racist E-Mail and my brilliant response...
So, my Freep relatives LOVE to send me cute l'il e-mails showcasing their hatred. Normally, I just delete them. This time, I read one, and got so pissed off that I just HAD to respond. This is the e-mail I recieved:

Reflect back and take the

following multiple choice test.
The events are real.
So are the answers highlighted in red:
Do you remember?


1. 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by?
a. Superman?
b. Jay Leno?
c. Harry Potter?
d. a Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40?

2. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by?
a. Olga Corbett?
b. Sitting Bull?
c. Arnold Schwarzenegger?
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40 ?

3. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by:?
a. Lost Norwegians?
b. Elvis?
c. A tour bus full of 80-year-old women?
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40?


4. During the 1980's a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by:?
a. John Dillinger?
b. The King of Sweden?
c. The Boy Scouts?
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40?


5. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:?
a. A pizza delivery boy?
b. Pee Wee Herman?
c. Geraldo Rivera?
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40?


6. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old
American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by:?
a. The Smurfs?
b. Davey Jones?
c. The Little Mermaid?
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40?


7. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a US Navy diver
trying to rescue passengers was murdered by:?
a. Captain Kidd?
b. Charles Lindberg?
c. Mother Teresa?
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40?< /U>

8. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:?
a. Scooby Doo?
b. The Tooth Fairy and The Sundance Kid?
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40?

9. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by:?
a. Richard Simmons?
b. Grandma Moses?
c. Michael Jordan?
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40?

10. In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:?
a. Mr. Rogers?
b. Hillary Clinton, to distract attention from Wild Bill's women problems?
c. The World Wrestling Federation?
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40?

11. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles
to take out the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the passengers. Thousands of people were killed by:?
a. Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd?
b. The Supreme Court of Florida?
c. Mr. Bean?
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40?

12. In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against:?
a. Enron?
b. The Lutheran Church?
c. The NFL?
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40?


13. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by:?
a. Bonnie and Clyde?
b. Captain Kangaroo?
c. Billy Graham?
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40?
Nope, I really don't see a pattern here to justify profiling, do you?

So, to ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly fanatics intent on killing us, airport security screeners will no longer be allowed to profile certain people. They must conduct random searches of 80-year-old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper identification, secret agents who are members of the President's security detail, 85-year old Congressmen with metal hips, and Medal of Honor winning and former Governor Joe Foss, but leave Muslim Males between the ages 17 and 40 alone lest they be guilty of profiling.
Let's send this to as many people as we can so that the Gloria Aldreds and other dunder-headed attorneys along with Federal Justices that want to thwart common sense, get the message .
As the writer of the award winning story "Forrest Gump" so aptly put it, "Stupid is as stupid does."



And HERE is my response:

Recently, I recieved a quiz entitled, "Do you remember?" which included many terrorist acts committed by Muslim Extremists, Age 18-40. A few items were left off the list, so I included them below:

On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was killed by:

A.Muslim Extremists
B. Crazy White Guy, Lee Harvey Oswald

During the late 1970's, New York City was terrorized by:

A. Muslim Extremists
B. Crazy White guy, David Berkowitz

On December 9, 1980, John Lennon was shot by:

A. Muslim extremists
B. Crazy White guy of his meds, Mark David Chapman

On April 19, 1995, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building was blown up by:

A. Muslim Extremists
B. Crazy White guys, Tim McVeigh and Terry Nichols

In 1968, Martin Luther King was shot by:

A. Muslim Extremists
B. Crazy White Guy, James Earl Ray

Throughout the 1990's, who blew up Abortion clinics and set a bomb in Atlanta's Olympic Park in 1996?

A: Muslim Extremists
B. Crazy White Guy, Eric Robert Rudolph

In 1966, who climed the University of Texas clock tower and sniped innocent passerby?

A. Muslim Extremists
B. Crazy White guy, Charles Whitman


Enough is enough. I'm sure that by now you get my point. PLEASE quit sending me this racist bullshit! MUSLIMS ARE NOT THE ONLY ONES TO COMMIT TERRIBLE ACTS OF TERRORISM!!!!!


I do agree with the last line of the hate-filled missive, "STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES!"

StraightDope, signing off.
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Orrin_73 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-24-06 03:47 PM
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1. The man who shot Bobby Kennedy Sirhan Sirhan
was a palestinian christian and not a muslim!!
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StraightDope Donating Member (716 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-24-06 04:22 PM
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2. I'll have to add that to my response...
Thanks for the info. I was unaware of that!
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Joe Chi Minh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-24-06 04:23 PM
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3. And a patsy, to boot.
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StraightDope Donating Member (716 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-24-06 04:41 PM
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4. I'm confused...
I've never heard anyone suggest that sombody else was responsible. Whom do you suspect?
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-24-06 04:55 PM
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7. You should really read up on it. As big a coverup as the JFK shooting.
The forensics and eyewitness accounts make it pretty clear
that Sirhan did not fire the fatal shot. Simply not possible.
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Joe Chi Minh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-24-06 05:27 PM
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12. John and Robert upset - among other villains - the Mafia, on
different grounds.

John's campaign had been partly financed by the Mafia, and as a quid pro quo, whether express or tacit, he was expected get Mafia chief, Santos Traficante, sprung from the prison in which he was being held in Havana.

When John refused to send in air-support and initiate a full-scale invasion of Cuba on the occasion of the Bay of Pigs fiasco, he effectively sealed his death warrant. Not that the hawks in the Pentagon, CIA, etc wouldn't have arranged it, anyway. They assuredly would.

On the other hand, doubtless more than cognisant of the role played by the Mafia in his brother's assassination, he informed the public that he was going to go after them in a very purposeful way.
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StraightDope Donating Member (716 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-24-06 08:17 PM
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13. Interesting...
I remember when RFK was the Attorney General, he made statements to that effect. I hadn't realized that he continued on his anti-Mafia crusade after his brother's death.

That's why I love DU! I always learn new things when I'm here!

:)
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Joe Chi Minh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-24-06 04:51 PM
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5. Read this:
Edited on Tue Oct-24-06 05:06 PM by KCabotDullesMarxIII
http://homepages.tcp.co.uk/~dlewis/

Also, the URL under it, by googling "Assassination Robert Kennedy".

The following are the first few paragraphs of "Simple Facts about the R F Kennedy Assassination,"
further down the googled page:

"- Powder burns on Kennedy's clothing reveal that all three of his wounds were from a gun fired from 0 to 1-1/2 inches away. And yet, all witnesses claim that Sirhan's gun could not possibly have done this, for not one person places Sirhan's gun that close, and according to the general consensus Sirhan's gun never got closer than three feet away.

- Sirhan's gun could hold only eight bullets. And yet, seven bullets were dug out of bodies. an eighth bullet was traced through two ceilings into airspace, and two more bullets were identified as lodged in the door frame of the pantry by both LAPD and FBI personnel (the fresh bullet holes were even labeled as such on their photographs). Inexcusably, the door frames were burned, the Los Angeles Police Dept. claimed no bullets were found lodged in the "bullet holes", and two expended bullets (inexplicably dug out of wood) were soon found in the front seat of Sirhan's car. The LAPD then destroyed their records of the tests that had been done on the "bullet holes" in the doorframe.

- Three bullets were found in Robert F. Kennedy, and a fourth grazed his suit jacket. The upward angle of every shot was so steep as to be much closer to straight up than horizontal (80 degrees). And yet, all witnesses claim Sirhan's gun was completely horizontal for his first two shots, after which his gun hand was repeatedly slammed against a stem table (and now so far away from Kennedy that any errant shots of such upwardness would have been twenty feet high before reaching Kennedy, as opposed to entering Kennedy's backside as they did).

- The four bullets which touched Kennedy all hit on his back right side and were traveling forward relative to his body. Kennedy was walking towards Sirhan, his body was always facing Sirhan during the shots, and afterwards he even fell backwards before saying his last lucid words, ("Is everyone all right?") - at each and every moment facing toward Sirhan. It is impossible for bullets out of Sirhan's gun to have hit Kennedy's backside and been traveling forward unless Kennedy was almost entirely turned around.



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Obviously Sirhan shot at Kennedy, but it is clear someone else was firing too. And once a second assassin is established, this adds far more than just another lone individual to the murder gang (because of the way many powerful branches of government instantly swung into action to protect the second assassin). Indeed, any second assassin virtually proves that powerful branches of U.S. Government were behind the murder itself - not only because of their stiff resistance from the get go, but because of their ongoing, coldly calculated, and otherwise inexplicable manipulation of evidence for keeping Sirhan as the singular decoy/patsy.



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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-24-06 08:37 PM
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15. It just illustrates the fundamental racism in play....
"They all look the same" dontchaknow.
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Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-24-06 04:54 PM
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6. Simple people get worried about losing #1 status!
Hi, I'm a white man and I think we should play - white man did it.

1. Who has enslaved the most indigenous people in human history?

2. Who has caused the most wars since recorded time?

3. Who is terraforming the planet?

4. Who nuked his fellow man?


Send em those four and let him know we are still #1!!!! USAUSAUSAUSA!
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bbernardini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-24-06 04:59 PM
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8. Please let us know what response you get! nt
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StraightDope Donating Member (716 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-24-06 05:26 PM
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11. Will do!
I should hear back from some of the people to whom I replied either tonight or tomorrow.
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POAS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-24-06 05:02 PM
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9. What about
1. John Hinckley
2. The cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer
3. John Wayne Gacy
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AspenRose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-24-06 09:19 PM
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16. Ooh and Ted Bundy, too
Interviewed by JAMES DOBSON before he was executed....

Not an assassin, but a devastatingly handsome, evil white guy.
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gumby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-24-06 05:04 PM
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10. First thing I thought of was Columbine.
Then the schoolhouse shootings in PA.
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VeggieTart Donating Member (698 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-24-06 08:35 PM
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14. Aren't all the schoolhouse shooters white guys?
And many of them Christians, to boot.

Speaking of Robert Kennedy, I read somewhere that two days before his death, RFK said he hoped to use the powers of the presidency to determine the truth about his brother's death. The next time my dad sends that Muslim thing to me, I'll have to have a good comeback.
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StraightDope Donating Member (716 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-24-06 09:24 PM
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17. "The next time my dad sends that Muslim thing to me..."
That's EXACTLY why I decided to post this. It's nice to have a rational response readily at your fingertips. Feel free to use any or all of my response.

SD
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