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."
"I don't think that reflects the overall feelings of Suffolk Law in general," law student Marisa Roman told the station. "Clearly it's a patriotic school; we have a huge American flag up in the atrium."
Avery reportedly takes exception to the flag as well, claiming that its hanging is "not a politically neutral act."
"Excessive patriotic zeal is a hallmark of national security states. It permits, indeed encourages, excesses in the name of national security, as we saw during the Bush administration, and which continue during the Obama administration," he wrote.
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I don't really want to get into the fray here, but to me, his statement is outright false though. And I don't want to degrade the issue by trying to simplify it, but in my opinion, no one goes overseas to kill other humans. It's merely a byproduct of the job they do protecting our country and freedoms. I would imagine that very few people actually sign up for the armed forces in order kill other human beings. And I assume that their are restrictions in place that if someone showed up to join simply to kill people, they would probably not be accepted? (just a guess I honestly don't know, maybe they put them in a special unit, haha) But the fact remains that to me those soldiers aren't there to kill people, their are there doing a job and following orders, if they kill someone it's in the line of duty and usually probably the result of some higher up putting them in that position. Which in that case if you wanted to protest a program sending greeting cards to generals in washington, have at it, but the guys over there to server us and this great nation, not to kill people. And while they are there, they deserve all the support we can give them. All just my opinion though.
