Fw: September 11 Disaster

[Peggy Holman]

Friends,

I got the 2 notes below on  Wednesday and today in response to the first
message that I forwarded to this list and also sent out quite broadly.   I
don't even know these folks so I assume someone I sent to passed the
messages on.

To Artur's question about mainstream response, I suspect these are more
reflective of it.  I  want very much to respond to these messages in a way
that opens them beyond the anger of the moment.  I saw some survey that 90%
of americans are ready to go to war over this.  I suspect many of us will be
in conversations where our views are very much the minority.

Please help me know how best to speak in a way that unites and opens to door
to other voices (truth, mercy and peace as well as justice?).

Peggy


----- Original Message -----
To: <peggy at opencirclecompany.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 6:39 PM
Subject: September 11 Disaster


> This is to let you know that I am in total
> disagreement with your letter.  It is because we as a
> country have in the past tried to "understand" and
> "turn the other cheek" that these perpetrators know
> that we are a sitting target.  Their past attacks on
> us (embassy bombings, 1993 WTC bombing, etc.) have
> resulted in no retaliation from us.  No wonder they
> have the confidence to strike as they did!  Rather
> than seeking to understand how these persons can act
> with such inhumanity, I feel it is now time to let
> them know that we will no longer accept such acts.  I
> am confident that our leadership will not strike
> without knowing that their target is the person(s)
> responsible for Tuesdays tragedies.  If some innocent
> persons should suffer, so be it; I am sure that the
> number of injuries would be far, far less than those
> inflicted on all of the innocent thousands who died yesterday.
>
>
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I disagree too little too late, its like a gang banger criminal in your area
kills or rapes your family or friends or a lot of people, then would you go
and tell the police please do not go after him or them, do not arrest or put
them in jail, please try to talk some sense in them. wrong......i know you
would want them arrested and punished for what they have done to you or
family otherwise the whole system will fail and there will be chaos on the
streets. you are not dealing with people who have common sence here when
they have no value for other human lives or their own expect thier own cause
what ever that might be.


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