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itsknotsew
April 25th, 2003, 9:14pm
I see a lot of people yelling for peace but I have not heard of one
plan for peace. " Books, not Bombs" won't work. The head mullahs won't
let anyone read them. If they do, they poke their eyes out.

Here's the plan:

1) The US will apologize to the world for our "interference" in their
affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini and the rest of
them 'good old boys'. We will never "interfere" again.

2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with
Germany, South Korea and the Philippines. They don't want us there.
We would station troops at our borders. No more sneaking through holes
in
the fence.

3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and
leave.
We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will
be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of who or where they
are.
France would welcome them.

4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days

unless given a special permit. No one from a terrorist nation would be
allowed in.
If you don't like it there, change it yourself, don't hide here. Asylum
would not ever be available to anyone. We don't need any more cab
drivers.

5) No "students" over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they
don't
attend classes, they get a "D" and it's back home baby.

6) The US will make a strong effort to become self sufficient energy
wise.
This will include developing non polluting sources of energy but will
require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The
caribou will have to cope for a while
7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel
for their oil. If they don't like it, we go someplace else.
8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we
will
not "interfere". They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain,
cement or whatever they need. Besides' most of what we give them is
stolen
or given to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if
any anyway.

9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an island some place. We don't need the
spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, it would make a good
homeless
shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.
9b) Use the buildings as replacement for the twin towers.

10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one
can call us "Ugly Americans" any longer.
Now, ain't that a winner of a plan.

"The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying'Give me your poor, your
tired,
your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling,
'You want a piece of me?'" - Robin Williams

BJo
April 25th, 2003, 9:24pm
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/williams.asp

Claim: Comedian Robin Williams came up with a plan for how the U.S. should handle foreign affairs.
Status: False.

Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2003]


Origins: We don't yet know who is responsible for the piece quoted above, but it definitely wasn't actor-comedian Robin Williams (of Mork & Mindy fame). This item's debut appears to have been a 21 March 2003 posting to the USENET newsgroup ia.talk.misc, and from there it was rapidly disseminated via e-mail and blogs, credited to either "author unknown" or no one at all. The Robin Williams attribution wasn't tacked on until several weeks later, apparently because along the way someone appended a genuine Robin Williams quote to the list as an eleventh item:


"The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'" - Robin Williams.
Obviously the Robin Williams attribution for the final item was interpreted as applying to the list as a whole, so now the entire piece is making the rounds as 'the Robin Williams plan.'
Last updated: 22 April 2003

itsknotsew
April 25th, 2003, 9:32pm
It's still funny even if Robin Williams didn't come up with it (and maybe not such a bad idea)! :)

Ravzie
April 25th, 2003, 9:38pm
I like it, regardless of the source!! :p

StoneHrt
April 25th, 2003, 9:41pm
:grin5: read it before....sounds like a plan to me

gabyzee
April 25th, 2003, 9:42pm
I don't know who wrote this plan, but if they run for President they'll get my vote!:laugh: :laugh:

MrDave
April 28th, 2003, 3:04pm
This sounds awfully familiar.

Wasn't this George W. Bush's plan when he was running for president??

nitrodpup
April 28th, 2003, 3:20pm
I got that e-mail last month and it was attributed to George Carlin

Ravzie
April 29th, 2003, 12:00am
It does sound more like Carlin.