Law Professor Calls Care Packages for U.S. Troops Shameful
About the best I can say for this guy is that some people are obviously wired differently. His attitude and opinion is just despicable.
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Massachusetts Law Professor Calls Care Packages for U.S. Troops 'Shameful'
Published November 14, 2011
| FoxNews.com
MyFoxBoston.com
Michael Avery, a professor at Suffolk University Law School, reportedly sent an email to colleagues saying it is "shameful" to send care packages to U.S. troops.
A Massachusetts law professor has created a campus firestorm with an email to colleagues that declares it would be "shameful" to send care packages to U.S. troops "who have gone overseas to kill other human beings."
Michael Avery, a professor at Suffolk University Law School, sent a five-paragraph email to colleagues in response to a school-wide appeal for care packages for deployed soldiers, Fox affiliate WFXT-TV reports.
"I think it is shameful that it is perceived as legitimate to solicit in an academic institution for support for men and women who have gone overseas to kill other human beings," Avery wrote.
The professor, who specializes in constitutional law, wrote the email last week in response to a university drive to collect items for U.S. troops, like sunblock and sanitary products. He also wrote that sympathy for American troops in harm's way is "not particularly rational in today's world."
The professor, who specializes in constitutional law,...
The irony is almost too much. Just another example of education and wisdom/common sense being two totally different, and often unrelated, points of intelligence.
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The problem I have here, is, why is nobody protesting this piece of crap's very existence ? Why are the people on campus with family in harm's way not barricading his office and attempting to throw him out a 4th floor window ? This would seem rational, given the arrogance and malevolence with which the statement was made...