"I lost my son to a conflict I oppose. We were both doing our duty"

mimo2005 · 05-26-2007, 04:25 PM

Antiwar professor's son killed in Iraq. Some compassionately blame him for his son's death .

http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_5988923

and

http://166.70.44.77/comments/read_co...=Opinion#16084

**jen56** · 05-27-2007, 01:37 AM

NO!! The father is not responsible for his son's death at all....

**Drew1369** · 05-27-2007, 01:37 PM

There are two people in this world, those that follow and those that lead. The son did his duty and his fater did his... its the notion that in this country you CAN say what you want.

His father did nothing wrong, his Son did nothing wrong.

~~Girderman~~ · 05-28-2007, 10:15 PM

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Although the First Amendment protects antiwar critics from being tried for treason, it provides no protection for the hardly less serious charge of failing to support the troops - today's civic equivalent of dereliction of duty.

The good professor lost me here. I quit reading. Obviously an idiot: equates opposing the war (and failing to "support the troops") with commiting high treason, only it's "(slightly) less serious".

This country was founded on the notion that you have the right to speak against your government, and his son died protecting that right, while this idiot is in the process of denying it's existance.

People can say what they like here, the problem is that they DON'T. And then come up with a thousand reason why they are politically inactive and thereby cede the political battlefield to the mentally retarded.

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jen56 TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Elizabeth. South Australia. Australia Posts: 2,649 OS: XP My System	Re: "I lost my son to a conflict I oppose. We were both doing our duty" NO!! The father is not responsible for his son's death at all.... __________________ GO AHEAD MAKE MY DAY!!! Regards Jen

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Drew1369 Moderator Relaxation Room Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Seattle, WA, USA Posts: 3,444 OS: Win7 Ultimate	Re: "I lost my son to a conflict I oppose. We were both doing our duty" There are two people in this world, those that follow and those that lead. The son did his duty and his fater did his... its the notion that in this country you CAN say what you want. His father did nothing wrong, his Son did nothing wrong. __________________ We humans have a primal urge to kill because, thanks to natural selection, all the homo sapiens who didn't have a primal urge to kill, were themselves killed. http://obamaclock.org/