Had the writer couched his argument in the same terms you used, askel, he would have built a better argument and garnered some regard from this quarter. But he used the language of victimhood to justify his cause, and basically crafted a selective argument that fails to provide the reader with a full picture of what happened to his family. He then nonsensically ties his personal travails into whether the principles upon which the United States was built deserve to be defended by "patriots." Jasonc, in his usual brilliant fashion, dispatched the writer dispositively by quoting Chesterton, but the writer failed to understand a single word. I have no sympathy for him.
I don't need, nor want, your sympathy, Beckett. I also don't want anyone else's sympathy. If you don't stand for justice on that high horse of yours and understand, yourself, the injustice and actual *victimhood* being imposed on parents (mostly Fathers) and children around this country by the incomprehensibly cruel family justice money-making machine while all the while our politicians and people like you pay lip service to 'family values' then you are not so righteous as you might imagine in the privacy and self-grandeur of your own thoughts.
Forgive me for totally disregarding your weak use of 'nonsenically'. Did I not speak about a personal and individual unjust tragedy of my own? Did I not speak about the other parents and children who are having this same tragedy unjustly visited upon them? Did I not make reference the the ostensible freedoms this country was founded upon and how they've been abrogated entirely in the family courts? You've got to read between the lines, my educated patriotic friend (or at least co-citizen).
The full picture is at www.nhfamilylawreform.org (which I referenced as well, even if 'nonsensically') if you care to look (which I suspect you don't). For yours is much more likely a quarter based upon blind loyalty to those who would treat your fellow citizens (and children) cruely and unjustly, as opposed to a quarter based on the foundation and principle of equal justice as protected (supposedly) by the 14th amendment. You're inability to make sense of what I relayed is either a measure of your conscious desire to disagree with anyone who should choose to indict your beloved and blind loyalty or instead a lack of understanding based on a lack of education with respect to the issue.
You shouldn't be so insulting and so ignorant of the issue of the same time. It is very unbecoming... Particularly of a true patriot like yourself...