I feel for this woman, she lost a son. That has to be one of the worst tragedies in the world when a parent loses a child. I cannot even conceive the notion of losing one of my children.

She has every right to stage a protest. It is the fabric of this nation for the people to express their displeasures or feelings of disagreement through protests with something that the establishment may be doing or are involved in.

But, I take offense to her refering to terrorists as "freedom fighters," and her statemant that "America is not worth dying for!"


It scares me that many opportunist organizations are latching on to her like leaches, making her a poster child for their own agendas. I fear that she is being used by them. That they really don't care that she has lost a son.

I think that this woman, in her time of weekness and sorrow, has been taken advantage of and that the hatemongers are brainwashing her with more and more hate for our country itself. This woman has appeared in several speaking engagements, one of them for Lynne Stewart, a convicted Lawyer who provided communication and terrorist support to terrorists. This is what she said on behalf of convicted terrorist supporter Lynne Stewart :

"First, I want to give my little story about Lynne. Of course, you all have read To Kill a Mockingbird. Lynne is my human Atticus Finch. He did what he knew was right, but wasn’t popular. And that’s what Lynne was doing."

So this woman believes that Lynne Stewart was doing what she knew was right in acting as a messenger between Sheik Abdul Rockman and Usama Bin Laden and his Al Qaeda network!

This frightens me very much. I will have to chalk this off to the fact that this woman may have understandably lost her mind because of the loss of her son.

But her losing her son, however horrible that may be, does not give her the right to desicrate our country itself and what it stands for. Let her demonstrate and protest all she wants, it is her right. Let her speak out against the war itself, it is her right. Let her speak out about the Presidents reasons for going to war. It is her right.

But no one living in this country should not ever be excused for calling a terrorist a freedom fighter, or for saying that the country that they live in, that gives them the protected right to protest and demonstrate, is not a country worth dying for. No one should ever be excused for supporting a convicted supporter of terrorism.

I hope that she is saying these things out of sheer anger, sorrow and emotion, and not out of her hate for this country itself.


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