[William Wallace]

Newsweek calls it ''truly perplexing'' that John Lindh, who ''grew up in possibly the most liberal, tolerant place in America ... was drawn to the most illiberal, intolerant sect in Islam.'' There is nothing perplexing about it. He craved standards and discipline. Mom and Dad didn't offer any. The Taliban did.

[homeschool mama]

bump for later reading

[CindyDawg]

It doesn't matter in the end. There comes a time of accountability where you have to be responsible for your own actions, and not blame others (including parents). Many people turn out just fine despite how they were or weren't raised.

[William Wallace]

FYI

[Howlin]

"Frank, Marilyn (not Mom and Dad), I've joined a new group I'm sure you would approve of; we train to shoot and kill my fellow countrymen, skin reporters, and basically destroy anybody who doesn't believe just as we do. Can I get a hug?"

[Defiant]

Bingo!! How right you are. He wanted his parents to tell him NO! when he decided to pretend to be a black gangster. Then, when they "supported" him, he thought, "surely they'll stop me" when he decided to become a Muslim. No, they even gave him money and let him quit high school.

I think if they had kicked his butt when he was 12, he'd be a normal kid in northern California--a little whacky, perhaps, but not a Talibunny. Too bad.

[gumbo]

After all, he had been named for one of the giants of our time: John Lennon.

A devastating line, that.

[Mudboy Slim]

"Devout practitioners of the self-obsessed nonjudgmentalism for which the Bay Area is renowned, Lindh and Walker appear never to have rebuked their son or criticized his choices. In their world, there were no absolutes, no fixed truths, no mandatory behavior, no thou-shalt-nots. If they had one conviction, it was that all convictions are worthy - that nothing is intolerable except intolerance."

Lib'ralism Writ Large...MUD

[f.Christian]

He was sincere--no fraud...he was defending his belief--not intiating force, oh my he is a taliban/libertarian...

"He craved standards and discipline. Mom and Dad didn't offer any. The Taliban did."

That vacuum(libertarian-liberal) crap never works very long---some big pile of you know what overfills it!

[RooRoobird14]

John Lindh deserved ''a little kick in the butt'' for keeping them in the dark about his plans, his father said, but otherwise they just wanted to ''give him a big hug.''

These so-called parents ought to be pistol-whipped repeatedly for being such sh*t-for-brains-like-wow-don't-judge-me-man @SSES.

There's no surprise here why their son turned out the way he did. None whatsoever.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...Judicial Watch Report's Commentator JANE CHASTAIN is due up shortly to discuss this very Issue on CNN's...

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...which airs starting at 12 Noon Pacific / 3pm Eastern Time.

See ya later ...See ya then.

GOD Speed ...JANE CHASTAIN

[keithtoo]

I love Jacoby, this guy has SPINE! and he actually uses it.

[BlueHorseShoe]

All I can do is sit here and shake my head.

[Aquinasfan]

After all, he had been named for one of the giants of our time: John Lennon.

The glob must be choking on this article. I can't believe they printed it.

[Jack Wilson]

Parents with different last names is a clue.

[Slyfox]

Walker's upbringing reminds of something I read in Bill Clinton's mother Virginia Kelly's autoboigraphy, "Leading With My Heart". She said that her way of dealing with the subject of honesty was to ask Bill, "Honest Injun?" And he would respond, "Honest Injun." She never did check to see if he was ever telling the truth.

Some parents deserve to feel the shame of a kid done wrong.

[Cosmologist]

Bump

[seamus]

So, Jeff Jacoby has been hired back from the newspaper that ran him off for no reason. When did this happen?

By the way, I wrote about this in my column last week. If interested, Click here.

[Aquinasfan]

I did a search on child. Look at these selections from...

Proverbs

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him.

Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you punish him with the rod, he will not die.

The rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.

A good man leaves an inheritance for his children's children, but a sinner's wealth is stored up for the righteous.

He who fears the LORD has a secure fortress, and for his children it will be a refuge.

Children's children are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their children.

The righteous man leads a blameless life; blessed are his children after him.

Even a child is known by his actions, by whether his conduct is pure and right.

Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.

[mikeb704]

John Lindh deserved ''a little kick in the butt'' for keeping them in the dark about his plans, his father said . . .

Or maybe a firing squad.

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

[mombonn]

I posted this to Teacup on this thread the other day:

He wanted to be told precisely how to dress, to eat, to think, to pray. He wanted a value system of absolutes, and he was willing to go to extreme lengths to find it.

His father says he was not bothered when his two sons rejected the “strict Catholic manner” of his own upbringing.

Just a bit of disconnect here. Kids WANT boundaries in their lives. His parents didn't provide them.

24 posted on 12/10/01 10:26 AM Pacific by mombonn

What a pity, his parents STILL don't get it. Dad wants to give him a little kick in the "butt", and thinks the U.S. should provide him transportation to visit the kid. Sheesh