BTW, it was a year ago this month that ANSWER posted its statement giving unconditional support to those who ended up killing Michael Berg's son. I wonder if he knows; I wonder if he cares?
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Posted on 05/13/2004 9:13:32 PM PDT by kristinn
As the theory goes...they found out he was Jewish...visited Israel...assumed he was a double agent for Mossad.
He wasn't one of their own. He was first and foremost an American. That in itself is enough. They will use leftist sympathizers to their own means. If it furthers their cause to let them live, then they live. If it furthers their cause to kill them, then they will kill them. That in itself should be enough to shake the answer crowd, but it won't. They will still ultimately blame Bush.
No flame from me. I agree with you.
His support for ANSWER emboldened our enemies and caused other American parents to lose their children. Why shouldn't he pay too?
Irony, karma - he's much more responsible for his son's death than GWB.
Oh, and quite a few people weren't horrified at seeing pictures of naked people with underwear on their heads. At least they still have their heads.
I agree with much of what you said.
This was not a 100% random killing.
BTW, it was a year ago this month that ANSWER posted its statement giving unconditional support to those who ended up killing Michael Berg's son. I wonder if he knows; I wonder if he cares?
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Because appeasement and taking their side doesn't work.
"I can't figured out how, if the family was told of Nick's death and decapitation by Monday, they were out on the lawn Tuesday gabbing with the reporters preying there ... then, only on hearing it had been videotaped and put on the web, did the father collapse in grief?...."
Same here. It seemed contrived. If my son were buthered, I wouldn't be flipping out in front of a tv crew on my front lawn. Especially if I knew it for a few days.
I would be in my home, flipping out privately.
The terrorists...umm, sorry, A.N.S.W.E.R....needed a new spokesman. The 9/11 families fizzled out.
Does anyone think we'll ever know the truth, if there is more than meets the eye here?
All members of the Cornell University community are shocked and saddened by the devastating news of the death of Nick Evan Berg, who was a student here for two and a half years.Nick enrolled as a freshman student in the College of Engineering at Cornell in the Fall of 1996. He spent the Spring 1998 semester in Uganda through Cornell's Study Abroad Program. He took a voluntary leave of absence from the university after completing the Fall 1998 semester.
Nick Berg is remembered by his professors and classmates at Cornell as an excellent student who made the Dean's List every semester that he studied here. His adventuresome nature took him to Uganda, where he studied development issues. He was a serious, caring individual who expressed the desire to help people and have a positive influence in the world.
We extend our deepest condolences to the Berg family and to Nick's many friends and colleagues during these difficult days.
What's in Uganda?
Not too many people would grieve so publicly at the same time that they say they are unhappy that their son's death has been publicized.
"What's in Uganda?"
I like your style. Leave no stone unturned, and don't accept everything at face value.
I'd have to look it up.
But I already know the political atmosphere that dominates at Cornell.
I wonder how comfortable Nick was when he lived among all those war protestors in Ithaca.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200404270054.html
UGANDA and other countries in eastern Africa are under risk of terrorist attacks.
A US State Department official said the US considered eastern Africa as a risky region on the continent for American interests.
Cornell and the Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) have established studies of poverty dynamics; multidimensional intertem- poral and spatial poverty comparisons; modeling infant mortality over time; modeling behav- ior and HIV/AIDS; tax incidence; demand for health care consultations; public water supply and women’s time use; and agricultural commer- cialization and children’s nutritional status. A conference is planned for early 2004, in Kampala to present papers, with a briefing for policymakers to discuss recommendations and relevance of the researc
The old man's sick. He's a liberal.
Bush and Rummy. Seriously.
http://www.israelnewsagency.com/pearlisrael.html
''My name is Daniel Pearl. I'm a Jewish American from ... Encinco, California, USA. I come from, on my father's side, a family of Zionists. My father is Jewish. My mother is Jewish. I'm Jewish. My family follows Judaism. We've made numerous family visits to Israel.''
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