"Maybe strange and liberal, but until I see him on tv, I don't suspect that he was involved."
I don't think he was involved, personally, but he's straining to sound mainstream conservative, which is strange in and of itself. His first statement, that his son's actions weren't "politically motivated" sound politcally motivated.
Okay, I understand you now.
He's a registered Republican in CO and has written some pretty conservative remarks in his alt-group postings we found (I haven't finished reading them--still working on the family timeline).
I should add that I'm getting a *whiff* of perhaps military aviation in the family background, but could be wrong about that. I need to pin down a couple of things--it may be private or commercial, not military, but circumstantial is pointing towards maybe Naval or AF. Don't quote me yet.