July 3, 2004

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  What I Want to Kill When I Grow Up
  
  Illustration by Bob Aul 

  
  

  
  

  by Gustavo Arellano

  
  

  Like all incoming high school seniors, Tim Bueler has big plans after graduation. The 17-year-old student at Rancho Cotate High School near San Francisco is acclaimed in conservative circles for starting the High School Conservative Clubs of America. But instead of taking the next logical step and entering politics, Bueler plans to do what so many conservatives merely dream about: kill Muslims.

  
  

  "Over 3,000 of our own people died at the hands of illegal aliens and their religion of peace, Islam!" Bueler screamed.

  
  

  "The price of freedom, my friends, is paid in blood," Bueler boomed. "The blood of our ancestors. For hundreds of years, Americans have fought to keep it and secure our freedom."

  
  

   "I know that Islam is not peaceful—it’s rooted in evil. And these people have declared war against all of us, all of us being Christians and Jews. And they want to do what they did to Daniel Pearl and Paul Johnson and Nick Berg to us. What I’m going to do is join the Army Rangers."

  
  

  His father tried to sway Bueler from this decision, warning that he would most likely find death in Iraq.  Bueler shrugged and smiled.

  
  

  "As long as I take one of those guys with me, I’ll be very satisfied."

  
  

   

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