Now I am going to attribute this to Robin Williams, as it was attributed to Robin Williams when I found it in a group I belong to. I actually did a search using one of the phrases from the following to see if I could confirm it was actually from Robin Williams, and what I did find was that it was posted in several places, but no one attributed it to Robin Williams. Finally, thanks to my friend from the group who originally posted it, I was pointed to this link which will take you to the google cached page for WECR 102.3. That radio station does not seem to have much interest in archiving previously posted things on their site, I discovered by trying to locate their original version of that cached page. OK, now that I have cleared up the attribution, let me give you the plan:
[UPDATE: Please read THIS POST regarding the true attribution of the following.]
Robin Williams' plan...(Hard to argue with this logic!)Posted by Tiger at April 24, 2003 11:55 PM | TrackBackI see a lot of people yelling for peace but I have not heard of a plan for peace. So, here's one plan:
1) The US will apologize to the world for our "interference" in their affairs, past & present. We will promise never to "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 day visits 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 gets "lost" or is taken by their army. The people who need it most get very little, 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
C'mon.... Are we really to believe that Robin Williams, a self-proclaimed San Francisco liberal, said any of these things? If anything, he may have made that comment about the Statue of Liberty as a jab at the Bush administration for wanting to put some constraints on immigration.
So, not arguing for or against any of the points in this plan -- I'm just not feeling very argumentative, today -- I'll just comment that folks should check things out before spreading these stories around the internet. A quick google-search on 'robin williams peace plan' provides hits on several sites that debunk internet myths (snopes.com, truthorfiction.com, urbanlegends.about.com, etc....)
So, please.... Stop spreading stories around on the internet -- just because someone else emails them to you, doesn't mean they're true!
Just my 0.02 euros...
Posted by: Mark at September 3, 2003 06:41 AMAs I explained in the post linked in the Update, I actually did a Google search on April 24 and no sites that debunk internet myths came up but I did get a hit on one radio station that had attributed such to Robin Williams.
Posted by: Tiger at September 11, 2003 04:09 PMHere's one link that raises suspicion about the source:
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/robinwilliamspeaceplan.htm
Posted by: Phil Milgrom at September 28, 2003 10:50 PMNo liberal would be intelligent enough to have penned the above. If R. Williams is a Liberal, then he couldn't have said it. Being willing and able to give the finger to the rest of the world is a uniquely libertarian kind of thing to do.....
Posted by: William E. Graham at March 16, 2004 12:34 AMthis was also posted at www.kkk.com for months...these are your allies.
Posted by: kdon at October 20, 2004 03:27 AM