As I am sure many of you have read Michael Avery, a professor from Suffolk University Law School not only balked at the idea of sending care packages to military men and women overseas in active duty, he took it a step further when he said in part:
“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.”
He wrote this in response to a campus wide email soliciting holiday care packages. When you look at Mr. Avery’s academic background, it is easy to see why he has this twisted view of the world. Among his credits listed at Suffolk University’s Law School website, he attended the University of Moscow for one year and also has served as special counsel to the ACLU.
Now I could delve into a thoughtful, yet angry tirade about his insensitivity to the military. Or I could say that even as hateful and ignorant as his position is, he has a right to express it under the very First Amendment granted to him in the Constitution; a right that has been fought and died for by our brave military men and women since the birth of our great country.
However, while viewing the responses to the story about this on the Daily Caller’s website, I found one response to be the antithesis of Professor Avery’s asinine comments. I would like now, to post this response and the only attribution I can give is the screen name of the respondent – Night_wolf_45.
Mr Avery,
While a majority of e-mails pertaining to your distaste for US care packages will likely be hostile in nature, I assure you that my message will strive to be anything but. As a US soldier and an officer in a light infantry brigade, I have seen both the dark side of humanity as well as sacrifice in its most pure form. Though not as educated, nor as knowledgeable as you in a vast number of areas, I may speak from experience when noting our operations overseas. While it is true that armies deal in death, we also strive to protect life, as a medical platoon leader in Afghanistan we served both civilian and hostile force with the same diligence and care as we would an American causality. On numerous occasions we treated children screaming from the shrapnel of a misplaced footstep as well as those who proved to be the genesis of the aforementioned injury.
Professor Avery, we do not deal solely in death, as if we did I would not find this career to be a suitable alternative to the academic realm of which I one day wish to return. In fact my job is honestly the antithesis of death, as it is for a vast majority of those who adorn the regalia of a soldier in a modern army. Unlike our enemies, we care for those who bleed, regardless of their affiliation, unlike those who wish us harm, we attempt to abide by the laws of war, and unlike those who leave explosives in crowded streets, we attempt to protect those who cannot protect themselves. While you may see this as an ignorant and idealized version of war, I could say the same for the comments you yourself had made. I am not a murderer Mr. Avery, nor do I condone the slaughter of civilians, I am a man who made a choice to protect living beings in a land that I would otherwise have never seen. True I have witnessed death, from the labored respirations of a dying member of the ANA, to the metaphorical demise of innocence, found in the tear strewn face of a soldier who had lost a comrade before their eyes. You see Mr. Avery, we were not the agents of death, but rather the nemesis of it. Even when the biological limitations of an individual were on the verge of collapse, we only relented in our battle with mortality when our clinical limitations and beleaguered efforts, could not overcome the inevitable. I am not asking to be called a hero sir, a title that would be better applied to the remarkable men who served under me, I’m simply asking to not be labeled a murderer. As a man of law you can see the distinct difference, if your generalization of those in uniform were to be true, and if all men and women were guilty by association, one would ultimately be forced to surmise that there would be no one left to guard the institutions, as we would all be interned. True, many of us are unremarkable, and unlike those with an outstanding intellect and pension for academia, we found a career in which we can excel. However, regardless of political ideations, we are often taken from home to fulfill the call of duty, both the one were a legally bound to answer, and the one we ourselves intrinsically create. We leave our wives, children, pets, parents, loved ones, bills and personal strife behind us, for a penance of what we should be paid, in a land we seldom know. You see sir, a care package is not a message of death, nor is it a cluster of bullets in a chamber pointed at a child, if anything, it’s a reminder that we are remembered and we are longed for.”
With thoughtful, intelligent folks like this in the military, not only do I feel a swell of patriotism, but I see light at the end of the tunnel of darkness that is modern progressivism.
Their called wacho liberals who have no clue relevant to real life. They live in a perceived life that doesn’t exist. Sadly those who live real lives fight and die so they can act stupid.
MICHAEL AVERY
A SUFFOLK LAW PROFESSOR, IS AN IDIOT
FIRE HIM THIS INSTANCE,
THE MILITARY WAS TOO POLITE FOR A DIMINUTIVE LAWYER MOST IGNORANT
UNFIT TO BE A PROFESSOR,
BECAUSE HE SHOW HOW DUMB HE IS.
AND LET HIS STUDENTS WIPE THE SMILE OF HIS FACE
anticsrocks
That light is the glow of freedom that our military keeps lit.
SMORGASBORD
HI
THE MILITARY on their way back should take over the COUNTRY,
and show how this AMERICA should be lead the right way.
that is PATRIOTISM, LOVE OF THE COUNTRY, DISCIPLINE
AND RESTRAINT
bye
“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.”
So says Suffolk Law School professor Michael Avery. He reduces two very complex armed conflicts (that deal with terrorism, ethnic and religious fascism, Bathist dictators, wars on women and education, ethnic cleansing, nerve gassing of civilians, etc., etc.) into such a simplistic, asinine sentiment as “…gone overseas to kill other human beings.”
He then decides to use the badly misused cliché that wars are fought, not by free moral men and women of conscience, but by poverty-stricken victims, “…a draft and people with few resources to resist were involuntarily sent to battle.” Not realizing that America has been burdened with a unenviable role in the world he states “The United States may well be the most war prone country in the history of civilization….We have 700 overseas military bases. What other country has any?” Maybe he should ask the Australians that are stationed in East Timor and Fiji. But why let facts get in the way of making a senseless argument.
He ends with “That sympathy is not particularly rational in today’s world, however.” Not rational, what in God’s name is not rational with this? If someone dares have a thought or sympathy that Michael Avery does not agree with it is somehow not rational? What may be the shameful thing here is that an intellectual lightweight such as Michael Avery is teaching at a US law school.
@Smorgasbord: Amen to that.
@ilovebeeswarzone: #4
Organizations have formed to try to get military personnel in office. I am all for it and hope we get one or more in Idaho. Joe The Plummer is running for office.
James:
Indeed, the concept is purposeful; for they of the Avery creed, tool the mills and provide the means, to turn out many more “Intellectual Lightweights” like our Narcissist In Chief who can do little more than follow a Marxist template, while bankrupting the system with cronyism and corruption.
Are you really kidding me? This is all over a CARE PACKAGE. What part of the word CARE doesn’t Mr. Avery understand? And his thoughts of sending something as small as a card to one who has put his or her life on the line not only for us here at home but for everyone in the country they are stationed. Mr. Avery reminds me of just what we who served in Vietnam had to deal with when we came home. God only knows where he (Mr. Avery) was during that time. Those protesters back then didn’t have a clue of just why we were in Vietnam. I have heard it over and over again. “Well they didn’t attack us here so why are we fighting over there so far away?” That comes from people that have had it (FREEDOM) handed to them and don’t realize that others in this small world don’t have the freedoms that we have here. AND THAT IS WHY WE WERE IN VIETNAM (written in caps so may they can read it without their glasses). I bet he (Mr. Avery) is one of those who believes that ALL Vietnam Vets were Baby Killers and Drug Addicts. Which is so far from the TRUTH. It is just amazing how someone with enough (yes enough not great) intelligence is aloud to be teaching our young the laws of this country doesn’t or cannot see past his own nose and comprehend just what he reads in his own law books. The bottom line is FREEDOM for ALL not only in this great country but the WORLD. His own resume includes a year in Moscow. So why did he leave? I can onlt bet it was for the FREEDOMS that we ALL have here in the good old US of A. He labels those in the military as the grim rippers. I just have to wonder where he puts the Police Officers that protects him here at home. I can bet when something bad happens to him or a member of his family. He will be happy they were there but then be the first to prosecute that same person the moment that the danger is over. Mr. Avery makes me remember something Nikda Crucheff said years ago. “We will concur from within.” An remember he was a Russin leader.
I will leave it at that. For I feel he (Mr. Avery) has had his fifteen minutes of fame and that is all he deserves. Our men and woman in the military deserve a life time of fame not just a short fifteen minutes. So I use my First Amendent Rights that I earned and fought for in the Marine Corps not only in Vietnam but the Dominican Republic and Philadelphia, Mississippi. The finial words are FREEDOM and RIGHTS for ALL.
Bob Stone
Bob Stone,
it take a military from the war zone to educate those ignorants of why they can freely have their crooked and selfish thoughts translate in words, and even to influence their students.
thank you we need more advice from you all, because this AMERICA IS ON A VERY DANGEROUS SLOPE, AND NO ONE IN POWER IS WILLING TO CORRECT IT,
THEY CONTINUE TO SINK AMERICA DEEPER IN THE CRATER THEY DIG THEMSELVES.
BEST TO YOU AND ALL WHO FIGHT FOR THE FREEDOM OF AMERICA AND ALL WHO ARE OPPRESS BY HATE IN THE WORLD.
“I wish Professor Avery could witness for himself the [ joy ] that a small gift can bring to a soldier, especially around the holidays.” AND “A high-ranking U.S. Army officer who spoke to TheDC on condition of anonymity was more forward in his criticism. “I have served 28 years in the United States Army and Professor Michael Avery’s statements, made during a time of war, are just a treasonous as Jane Fonda’s actions during the Viet Nam war,” he wrote in an email.” AND “defending slobs like Avery’s right to speak out, no matter how asinine their opinions.” BUT most of all: “while Avery lies drunk in front of his fireplace, safe and warm.”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/15/massachusetts-anti-military-law-professor-attended-university-of-moscow/#ixzz1ej9e5g78
I shake my head and wonder how does one’s world view get as warped as this?
And then I wonder…. how do progressives “seem to” get over on people (students and empty heads) with this kind of academic rhetoric and Propaganda that apparently swims in that fishbowl of a head sitting on Avery’s shoulders? This IS the Liberal Sickness WE speak of…. No Joy, just Anger and pure vindictiveness…
I think I would Gasp at his ‘academic ( personal) theory’ on the Murder of over 3800 Americans at the hands of Terrorists come to America to Kill…. AMERICANS?!!
He’d be crying like a baby if ever at the hands of these terrorists, and no academia persuasion, or ‘peace signs’ would save him….he [and his ilk] can say what he wants [no matter how asinine] it is…. our Military has his back….
GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS!
@FAITH7: #11
We have, and still are trying to overthrow other countries by infiltrating their governments, churches, civic organizations, different media, and schools. Other countries are doing the same.
Imagine that a country or organization wants to put THEIR people in congress and the whitehouse. If they could do this, and want to bring the USA down, how would they do this? Now, compare those things to what congress and the king-in-chief are doing
I believe we have finally been infiltrated at the top and the king and his court’s goal is to turn the USA into something other than a free country.
I have had soldiers with just a high school education smarter than this Professor. I guess you just cant fix stupid. Black3/6 out
stan92166
hi,
yes for sure, no comparison, this place of learning went to RUSSIA TO GET HIM, and look what they got, an idiot.
WHEN WILL THEY LEARN, WHERE THE BEST ARE,
THE MILITARY can teach more values to the students, and anything worthy for their future than anyone in AMERICA WHO ARE NON MILITARY, THEY ALSO BE THE BEST PRESIDENT OF THIS GREAT NATION, BECAUSE THEY KNOW THE OTHER SIDE OF WHATEVER THE YOUNG CAN LEARN,
AND THE STUDENTS MUST DEMAND THAT KNOWLEDGE THAT IS THE ESSENCE OF THE BRAVEST WARRIORS, SO THEY CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT IS IT TO BE A REAL AMERICAN,
BEST TO YOU AND ALL FOR THIS COMING MONTH
we think of you, and we love you